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Japan factory output has biggest ever monthly fall
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-12-26 14:31

TOKYO – Japan's contracting economy got more bad news Friday when figures showed that industrial production plunged by its biggest margin ever in November, the jobless rate jumped and household spending fell.


In this April 1, 2008, file photo, automobiles for export park at a Yokohama port, south of Tokyo, Japan. [Agencies]

Output at the nation's vital manufacturers fell 8.1 percent from October, the largest drop since Tokyo began measuring such data in 1953, as Japan's automakers and others slashed output to cope with slowing global demand. The decline was worse than analysts' forecasts, and a survey predicted a similar 8 percent decline in December.

"Exports and industrial production are falling so extraordinarily quickly that it almost defies analysis," said Richard Jerram, chief economist at Macquarie Securities in Tokyo.

The monthly drop in factory production is nearly double the previous record fall of 4.3 percent in January 2001, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Earlier this week, trade data showed that Japanese exports plunged a record 26.7 percent in November.

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Many companies, including big names like Toyota Motor Corp. and Sony Corp., have announced plans to cut production and workers. The yen's recent strength against the dollar and euro has also dealt a huge blow to this export-oriented economy — the world's second-largest — by eroding overseas earnings.

The job cuts are already being reflected in a higher unemployment rate, which rose to 3.9 percent in November from 3.7 percent in October, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said. The figure does not include those who have given up looking for work and exited the labor market entirely.

The ministry said 2.56 million people were unemployed in Japan in November, an increase of 100,000 from a year earlier.

Consumers are also holding back. Retail sales fell 0.9 percent in November from last year, the third straight monthly decline.

And average monthly household spending dipped 0.5 percent in November from a year earlier, for the ninth straight monthly decline. Still, the drop was smaller than expected, beating the 3.6 percent decline forecast by a Kyodo News survey. Household spending is a key indicator of consumer spending, which makes up more than half of Japan's gross domestic product.

Inflation, meanwhile, eased. Core consumer prices — which excludes volatile fresh food prices — rose 1 percent after a 1.9 increase in October.

Stock investors seemed to brush off the bevy of negative numbers. The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average finished the morning session up 1.12 percent, or 96.27, at 8,695.77.

The outlook for manufacturers, , is particularly grim. If dire forecasts for the next two months of industrial production hold, factory output will have fallen 20 percent during the four months of October through January 2009.

Output by automakers fell 15 percent from October and 25 percent from a year earlier. Electronic manufacturers cut output 12 percent compared the previous month and 25 percent from the same month last year.

Economists say that while the outlook for the near-term remains bleak, a modest recovery in demand and production may begin to surface in mid-2009, as governments around the world begin to implement stimulus measures announced in recent months.

"We haven't see the light at the end of the tunnel yet, but we should be seeing it in a few months," said Takuji Okubo, an economist at Merrill Lynch.

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