Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Tuesday the size of an extra budget to be compiled to fund a fresh set of inflation relief measures will likely exceed 13 trillion yen ($87 billion) as he vowed to extend support to struggling households ahead of a general election in late October. Speaking at a campaign stop in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture in northeastern Japan, Ishiba said the fiscal 2024 supplementary budget is expected to exceed the roughly 13.20 trillion yen in the previous extra budget for fiscal 2023. “We will aim to enact a large budget that will exceed the previous year’s extra budget…