The report also recommended hiking the consumption tax from the current 5 percent.
This is old news. Like I said last month, before they stick their hands in deeper, clean up the existing system and trim the fat... otherwise all we'll have are richer politicians and yakuza, and nothing will improve.
However, upping the income tax rate would provide me an incentive to pack up and head home... one of the nice things about being here is that the income tax rate is lower than what I paid in California. I'll just pencil that reason in beneath "Natto" and "Racism".