BY GEORGE NISHIYAMA, YUKA HAYASHI AND ALEXANDER MARTIN
TOKYO—The front-runner to become Japan's next prime minister said he would consider loosening some of the nation's fiscal-discipline policies, in defiance of warnings by credit raters to curb borrowing by the heavily indebted government, suggesting instead more spending to help jump-start growth.
"First, we will concentrate our policy tools to curb deflation," opposition leader Shinzo Abe said in an interview Thursday with The Wall Street Journal. "But that can't be done solely by monetary policy," he said, alluding to his prominent campaign to push the Bank of Japan to take more-aggressive measures to boost an economy heading toward its second ...
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