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Tokyo April core CPI rises 1.5% yr/yr

A customer looks around seafood at a shop in Tokyo, Japan November 19, 2025.  REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
A customer looks around seafood at a shop in Tokyo, Japan November 19, 2025. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon Reuters

TOKYO - Core consumer prices in Tokyo rose 1.5% in April from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday.

The core consumer price index for Japan's capital, which includes oil products but excludes fresh food prices, compared with economists' median estimate for a 1.8% annual rise.

(Reporting by Tokyo Newsroom)

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This story was originally published April 30, 2026 at 7:33 PM.

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