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)
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)