The head of Japan’s biggest business lobby on Sunday expressed hope that the government of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will take necessary measures to fully combat the country’s decades-long deflation. In a speech at the annual convention of Kishida’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Masakazu Tokura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation known as Keidanren, said the nation’s economy has been on an upward trend on the back of robust wage growth. “It is important for the country to work as one to make this year a historic turning point in completely overcoming deflation that has continued f…