Private consumption makes up some 60% of Japan's economic activity Japan's economy shrank 1.8% in the April-to-June period, worse than forecast and raising more questions about the government's economic policy. The official data confirmed that the world's third largest economy suffered its sharpest quarterly contraction since the 2011 earthquake disaster. On an annualised basis it would mean gross
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