Urgent: Japan's GDP contracts annualized 1.8 pct in Q3-Xinhua

Urgent: Japan's GDP contracts annualized 1.8 pct in Q3

Source: Xinhua| 2025-11-17 08:07:00|Editor: huaxia

TOKYO, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Japan's economy contracted an annualized 1.8 percent in the third quarter of 2025, marking the first contraction in six quarters, government data showed Monday.

Quarter-on-quarter, real gross domestic product in the July-September period declined 0.4 percent from the April-June period, according to the Cabinet Office.

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