TOKYO: Japan recorded a double-digit drop in its trade surplus in July as costs of energy imports rose on a weaker yen, government data showed Thursday.

The world’s third-largest economy logged a surplus of 418.8 billion yen ($3.8 billion), down 17 percent from a year earlier, according to data from the finance ministry.

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