(250516) -- TOKYO, May 16, 2025 (Xinhua) -- A visitors enjoys the city view from a high-rise building near Ebisu Station in Tokyo, Japan, May 15, 2025. Japan's economy contracted an annualized 0.7 percent in the first quarter of 2025, marking the first contraction in four quarters, government data showed Friday.
Quarter-on-quarter, real gross domestic product in the January-March period, adjusted for inflation, declined 0.2 percent from the October-December period, according to the Cabinet Office. (Xinhua/Jia Haocheng)
