Japan recorded its largest current-account deficit in January since the start of 2014 as a jump in oil-import costs offset gains in investment income, with continuing uncertainty due to the Ukraine crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The current-account data highlighted the dependence of Japan’s resource-deficient economy on imports of commodities and raw materials, which caused the trade deficit to widen.
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