Kyodo News InternationalJune 5, 2013 15:17
The New Komeito party on Tuesday set long-term goals to revitalize the Japanese economy, including raising average salaries by 10 percent, in its key policy pledges for this summer's upper house election.
The junior coalition partner of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party also proposed holding an anti-nuclear summit in 2015 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the elimination of nuclear weapons, while underscoring the need for improving Japan's relations with China and South Korea, strained over historical issues.
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