FILE PHOTO: A vendor, wearing protective mask following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), works at the almost empty Kansai International Airport in Osaka, Japan, March 14, 2020. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
June 29, 2020
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese retail sales shed 12.3% in May from a year earlier, compared with a median market forecast for an 11.6% decline, government data showed on Monday.
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(Reporting by Yoshifumi Takemoto; Editing by Chang-Ran Kim)
