Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi aims to use her first stimulus package to jump-start the economy and initiate a new growth strategy through investment in key industries.

A panel tasked to form a new economic strategy for the nation by next summer recommended that the prime minister use the package to kick off efforts to build robust growth through ¡°crisis management investment and growth investment,¡± according to documents released following its first meeting.

¡°We need to boost private investment through measures that enhance the predictability of investment,¡± Takaichi said Monday after the meeting.