GDP still likely to shrink this year

The economy appears to have weathered October’s sales tax hike better than many had feared. But with industrial production set to record the steepest quarterly fall since the Great East Japan Earthquake and global growth likely to disappoint, we still expect Japan’s GDP to shrink this year.

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