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Urgent: Japan's GDP shrinks by annualized 1.6 pct in Q2

Xinhua, August 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

Japan's gross domestic product shrank an annualized 1.6 percent in the second quarter of 2015, government data showed on Monday.

The data also said that real GDP of Japan in the three-month period from April to June was down 0.4 percent from the previous quarter. Endi