The government on Monday raised its assessment of the economy for the first time in more than three years, citing a gradual pickup in external demand and falling corporate inventories, possibly indicating the worst of the recession is over.
“While the economy is in a difficult situation, the tempo of worsening has become moderate,” the Cabinet Office said in its monthly economic report for May.
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