石破首相の経済政策「非常に妥当」　最賃引き上げ、安全網必要―経団連会長

　経団連の十倉雅和会長は２日、仙台市内で記者会見し、石破茂首相が就任記者会見でデフレ脱却最優先の経済財政運営を行うと表明したことについて「非常に妥当だし、安心している」と述べた。十倉氏は、首相が社会課題の解決に向けた投資の喚起や賃上げ促進に前向きな姿勢を示していると説明した上で、「岸田政権の政策の踏襲は、われわれとしてもありがたい」と語った。
　一方、首相が最低賃金の全国平均１５００円への引き上げについて、岸田政権が掲げた２０３０年代半ばまでという目標を前倒しし、２０年代の実現を目指す考えを示したことに関し「かなりの（引き上げ）率になる」と指摘。「セーフティーネット（安全網）が整わないままだと大きな混乱になる」と述べ、前倒しを可能とする労働環境の整備を求めた。（2024/10/02-20:21）

Japanese business leader Masakazu Tokura on Wednesday praised new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's plan to focus on pulling the country's economy fully out of a deflationary state.
   "It's very reasonable and reassuring," Tokura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, told a press conference in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, referring to Ishiba's economic and fiscal policy stance announced at his inaugural press conference on Tuesday.
   Tokura said that Ishiba has shown a positive attitude toward stimulating investment and promoting wage increases to resolve social challenges.
   "We're grateful that he will uphold the policy of the administration of (former Prime Minister Fumio) Kishida," he said.
   Tokura said that Ishiba's goal of raising the average national minimum wage to 1,500 yen per hour during this decade, instead of by the mid-2030s as was proposed by Kishida, would require "a significant rate" of increase.