Japan’s economy showed its first signs of inflation this year after gasoline prices surged.
Japan’s core consumer prices, which exclude fresh food, climbed 0.1 percent in October from a year earlier, the first increase since December 2006, the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry said Friday.
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