TOKYO: Japanese consumer prices rose in March, data showed Friday, but a drop in factory output and still-weak household spending underscored the challenges facing policymakers as they battle on-and-off deflation.

The figures came a day after Japan’s central bank modestly boosted its economic growth forecast, even as its chief warned an inflation target—already running four years late—was likely to be delayed once again.

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