Japan should finance any additional spending plans within existing budget, rather than issue new debt, Krishna Srinivasan, director at the International Monetary Fund's Asia and Pacific Department told Reuters in an interview . 'Any kind of support you're providing should be a lot more targeted, and any kind of new initiative should be financed within the budget,' Srinivasan said, 'you should not be increasing more debt to provide for any new initiative.
' Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who took the helm on Oct. 1, has pledged to compile a large-scale spending package to support households struggling with rising living costs. The relief packages were vowed at a time when the Bank of Japan raised interest rates, adding to the cost of funding for Japan's public debt, which already stands at double the size of its economy .
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