Japan August retail sales rise 2.8% year-on-year

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese retail sales rose 2.8% in August from a year earlier, government data showed on Monday.

That was slightly above the median market forecast for a 2.3% rise.

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(Reporting by Yoshifumi Takemoto; Editing by Chang-Ran Kim)