The average income of a Japanese household dropped to 5.8 million yen in 2003, shrinking for the seventh consecutive year, according to a government survey released Wednesday.
The survey polled 277,000 households in June and July 2004 and asked about 36,000 of them what their income was in 2003. There are 46.32 million households in Japan.
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