Wage-earning households spent 1.6 percent more in real terms in October than they did a year earlier, the first rise in seven months, the government said Friday.
Average spending by such households came to 331,546 yen, the Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Ministry said in a preliminary report.
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