Japan's trade deficit widens as oil costs bite, export growth slows for the first time in six months
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Japan's trade deficit widened to beyond the 1 trillion yen mark for the first time since January, coming in at 1.1 trillion yen ($7.1 billion).
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What happened
Japan's trade deficit widened to beyond the 1 trillion yen mark for the first time since January, coming in at 1.1 trillion yen ($7.1 billion).
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