TOKYO: Japan logged a trade surplus of nearly $4 billion in June, rebounding from a deficit the previous month, but its politically sensitive surplus with the United States slipped, government data showed Thursday.

The world’s third-largest economy logged a surplus of 439.9 billion yen ($ 3.9 billion), down 35.9 percent from the same month a year earlier, according to data from the finance ministry.

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