Land prices in Japan fell on average for the seventh consecutive year as the pace of decline again picked up amid banks’ ongoing efforts to dispose of bad loans, the National Tax Administration Agency reported Wednesday.
According to National Land Agency data, the key average land price as of Jan. 1 fell by 7.1 percent from Jan. 1, 1998, to 158,000 yen per sq. meter, the tax agency said.
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