STRATEGY FOR GROWTH HAS SOME BLANKS

The Japanese government is set to approve a new growth strategy billed as a fundamental rethinking of the economy, tackling deflation and renewing its energy policy after the natural and nuclear disasters last year.

The plan contain some impressive targets, like helping create more than ¥100 trillion, or $1.278 trillion, worth of new industry and 4.7 million new jobs in field like renewable energies and medicine by 2020.