JAPAN - Delays sales-tax hike to boost economy

Japanese people are being encouraged to spend their yen now to try and boost the world’s third-largest economy.
They were expecting to pay more for everything they buy when the government imposed a higher sales tax, set to start next April. That’s now been put on hold, at least for the next two and half years, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says.

INC New, 02/06/2016 - source: ©AlJazeera