TOKYO: Japan on Friday logged its first annual consumer price decline in four years, underscoring the challenges facing Tokyo’s fight to rid the world’s number three economy of deflation.
Government data showed prices dropped 0.3 percent in 2016 from a year earlier, as weak household spending and meagre wage hikes keep a lid on inflation.
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