No plan to change Japanese growth outlook

JAPAN - Japanese Minister of Finance Masajuro Shiokawa said on 13 June that at present, he is not considering revising the government's projection of 1.7 percent economic growth for fiscal year 2001, ending in March 2002.

Regarding the Bank of Japan's monetary policy, Shiokawa told a House of Representatives committee that the government should not give a specific direction or suggestion to the central bank.

At a meeting on 11 June of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, a government panel

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