Japan’s real wages fall for 23rd straight month, dampening Bank of Japan’s hopes for ‘virtuous cycle’
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The data comes after Japan’s unions secured the highest wage increases in 33 years. But those pay hikes benefit only a fraction of Japan’s workers.