TOKYO: Japanese industrial production dived in May for the first time in three months, official data showed on Thursday, in a worrying sign for the already fragile economy.

Factory output dropped 2.3 percent in May from a month earlier, much worse than the average 0.2-percent drop expected by economists, according to Bloomberg News.

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