Corporate bankruptcies dropped by 6.7 percent in May from a year earlier to 1,203, posting the first year-on-year fall in 12 months, a private credit research agency said Monday.
The debts left by the failed firms contracted 1.8 percent to ¥539.88 billion, the second straight month of decline, Tokyo Shoko Research said.
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