The written requests had been handed to Ishiba throughout a gathering on the Prime Minister’s Office by Masakazu Tokura of the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren; Ken Kobayashi of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry; and Takeshi Niinami of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, or Keizai Doyukai.
Ishiba instructed the three enterprise leaders that ending the Japanese economic system’s deflationary state is a prime precedence.