► Subscribe to the Financial Times on YouTube: http://bit.ly/FTimeSubs<br /><br />Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, intends to put off raising the country’s consumption tax until October 2019. The FT’s Robin Harding explains why.<br /><br />Produced by Tom Griggs. Edited by Paolo Pascual. Pictures from Bloomberg.<br /><br />For more video content from the Financial Times, visit http://www.FT.com/video<br /><br /><br />Twitter https://twitter.com/ftvideo<br />Facebook https://www.facebook.com/financialtimes
