The coalition government led by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will end its term of office in December 2016, and its strong parliamentary position suggests that it will remain firmly in charge of the political timetable.
Cutting the corporate tax rate from around 35% to less than 30% over the next few years is a key objective of the government's new growth strategy, together with reforming labour markets, agriculture and healthcare.
Headline consumer price inflation is forecast to average 2.8% in 2014 and 1.8% in 2015, reflecting the effects of increases in the consumption tax rate, but it should then settle down to an average of 1.6% a year in 2016-18.

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