The manifestos for next month’s Upper House elections published today show a worrying lack of urgency or ambition in their commitments to sort out Japan’s dire public finances. In particular, the governing DPJ plans to wait until 2021 before starting to reduce the debt/GDP ratio, which by then could be more than 260%
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