Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s administration will compile a large-scale economic stimulus package before calling a snap election in September, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Thursday. The Nikkei did not specify how much spending may be involved. Opposition parties have called for a package of around 30 trillion yen ($273.67 billion), a proposal Suga brushed aside in a debate with their leaders on Wednesday. Taking into account such calls, however, Suga will likely order his cabinet to compile a massive stimulus package around summer to appeal to voters in an expected lower house election in September, ... (full story)