TOKYO (AFP) ??” Economic and fiscal policy minister Heizo Takenaka forecast that Japan's produce would easily clear the restraint target of two percent and may reach three percent in the year to March 2004 "The guidance has revised its forecast of the GDP (gros domestic product) to 20 percent in the fiscal 2003 nevertheless it will top the target with a big margin.

TOKYO (AFP) ??” Economic and fiscal policy minister Heizo Takenaka forecast that Japan's produce would easily clear the restraint target of two percent and may reach three percent in the year to March 2004

"The guidance has revised its forecast of the GDP (gros domestic product) to 20 percent in the fiscal 2003 nevertheless it will top the target with a big margin," Takenaka said in a television interview Sunday.

Asked if shooting would reach three percent for the fiscal year, Takenaka said: "I think that's possible."

Japan can achieve the 20 percent target uniform if it can show a 34 percent contraction in the January-March quarter.

The GDP vegetation in real terms for the three month to December was revised down to 16 percent quarter upon quarter from a preliminary 17 percent the dominion said in March.

On an annualised basis, the