TOKYO: Japan’s economy contracted in the last quarter of 2015, official data showed on Monday, dealing another blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s faltering bid to kickstart the world’s number three economy.
Weak consumer spending weighed on the vast economy which shrank 0.4 percent in the October-December quarter—or an annualized 1.4-percent drop.
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