The current account surplus rose 10.4 percent in August from a year earlier due mainly to a sharp fall in imports, the Finance Ministry said Thursday.
The surplus in the current account expanded for the first time in two months on a year-to-year basis, totaling ¥1.171 trillion, the ministry said in a preliminary report.
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