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TOKYO, April 27-- The Japanese government on Monday submitted a reworked supplementary budget to the parliament to finance a number of emergency measures to help mitigate the overall economic blow from the coronavirus pandemic. "The virus infections have been exerting an enormous impact on the domestic and overseas economies, and the extremely severe situation is expected to continue until we can see signs of the outbreak coming to an end," Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso said in the lower house, calling for the budget's speedy approval. "We've decided to take every possible policy measure such as fiscal, financial and taxation steps, without being bound by precedents," Aso said, vowing to "fully protect employment, businesses and livelihoods." On April 20, Japan's Cabinet approved an upwardly revised extra budget of 25.69 trillion yen (240 billion U.S. dollars) for fiscal 2020, compared to an initial 16.81 trillion yen extra budget decided earlier in April. In a rare move, the initial emergency and extra budget had to be reworked to cover the 100,000 yen nationwide cash handout program to around 126 million people in Japan, at a cost of 8.88 trillion yen, along with other allocations aimed at mitigating the economic fallout of the pandemic here. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced on April 17 that the government will provide a 100,000 yen cash handout to all citizens regardless of their income level to help them deal with the economic impact of the coronavirus. | 
