Inflation stayed steady in July amid rising energy costs but remained far below the Bank of Japan’s elusive target rate of 2 percent, government data showed Friday.
Japan’s core consumer price index, which excludes the volatile prices of fresh food but not energy, rose 0.8 percent from a year earlier, maintaining the same pace as in June.
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