Japan’s wage-earning households spent 0.4 percent less in real terms in July than they did a year earlier, the fourth straight month of decline, the government said Friday.
The downswing slowed from June’s 3 percent, however, due in part to an increase in outlays for learning and leisure, the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications said in a preliminary report.
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