TOKYO: Japan's finance ministry will seek a record 26.05 trillion yen ($213.5 billion) for interest payment and debt servicing of Japanese government bonds, in budgetary appropriations for the next fiscal year from April 2016, government sources said.
The increase of 11.1 percent from the current fiscal year's budget reflects ballooning national debt.
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