Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday his Cabinet will approve a fiscal 2016 supplementary budget on May 13 to cope with deadly earthquakes that rocked southwestern Japan earlier this month, Kyodo News reported.

"The Cabinet would like to approve (the budget) on May 13 and submit it to the Diet," Abe said in a meeting with business leaders from the Kyushu region, part of which was open to the media.

Earlier Wednesday, secretaries general of Abe's Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, the Komeito party, agreed that the ruling coalition will aim to get the budget, whose size has yet to be fixed, through parliament on May 17 in cooperation with opposition parties, according to ruling party lawmakers.

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