Japan May retail sales rise 0.8 pct year/year

TOKYO, June 28 (Reuters) - Japanese retail sales rose 0.8
percent in May from a year earlier, after four straight months
of year-on-year falls, government data showed.
    The figure compared with a flat reading that was forecast by
economists in a Reuters poll, and followed a revised 0.2 percent
decline the previous month, according to data from the Ministry
of Economy, Trade and Industry on Friday.
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 (Reporting by Kaori Kaneko; Editing by Edmund Klamann)