Japan’s new prime minister, Naoto Kan, today warned that the country risked being sucked into a Greek-style debt crisis unless it quickly reined in its massive public debt.
Kan, who took over last week after the sudden resignation of Yukio Hatoyama, told MPs that Japan risked defaulting if it continued to issue bonds at the current pace.
“Our country’s outstanding public debt is huge,” he said in his first policy speech to parliament. “Our public finances have become the worst of any developed country.
