![Shuji Kajiyama FILE - A Japanese flag flutters at the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo, Thursday, July 29, 2022. Japan revised its earlier estimates to show that its economy contracted at a 2.9% annual pace in the first quarter of the year, as meanwhile a survey by the central bank released Monday, July 1, 2024, showed conditions remain sluggish. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/b0b335e07edd4480bd5cd4f48d73b923/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
FILE - A Japanese flag flutters at the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo, Thursday, July 29, 2022. Japan revised its earlier estimates to show that its economy contracted at a 2.9% annual pace in the first quarter of the year, as meanwhile a survey by the central bank released Monday, July 1, 2024, showed conditions remain sluggish. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File)
![Eugene Hoshiko FILE - People walk along a pedestrian crossing at Ginza shopping street on March 31, 2023, in Tokyo. Japan revised its earlier estimates to show that its economy contracted at a 2.9% annual pace in the first quarter of the year, as meanwhile a survey by the central bank released Monday, July 1, 2024, showed conditions remain sluggish. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/4e61a8a22a114eb7b4e0132d3c342850/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
FILE - People walk along a pedestrian crossing at Ginza shopping street on March 31, 2023, in Tokyo. Japan revised its earlier estimates to show that its economy contracted at a 2.9% annual pace in the first quarter of the year, as meanwhile a survey by the central bank released Monday, July 1, 2024, showed conditions remain sluggish. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)