Japan introduces urgent economic measures to ease pain from US tariffs | Business and Economy News

Package includes support for corporate financing, and subsidies to lower petrol prices and partially cover electricity bills.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has announced emergency economic measures to alleviate any impact on industries and households affected by the United States’s new tariffs on products from Japan.

The package unveiled by Ishiba on Friday includes support for corporate financing as well as subsidies to lower petrol prices by 10 yen ($0.07) a litre (0.26 gallons),…