The Japanese government is said to be preparing a new stimulus package of at least yen20 trillion (US$188 billion) to help the domestic economy emerge from deflation and fend off the possible adverse economic effects of a UK exit from the European Union, sources say. The government initially envisaged spending about yen10 trillion but the sum is likely to double as the spending will now include projects for fiscal 2017 and beyond, with an increase in the zaito low-interest government loans by yen6 trillion.Foreigners held eight of the top 10 spots on a Bloomberg ranking of the Japan's best-paid executives last year. Nikesh Arora, the former SoftBank chief operating officer whose yen8-billion (US$76 million) package topped the list, hails from India. Joseph DePinto, a director of the 7-Eleven operator Seven & i Holdings, came in second, and Ronald Fisher, a director at SoftBank who ranked third. Both are Americans. US-sized compensation packages have long been considered taboo in Asia's second-largest economy. Higher wages in Japan were typically earned by sticking around, thanks to rigid corporate promotion systems based on tenure.