TOKYO, June 28 (Reuters) - Japanese retail sales rose 3.6
percent in May from a year earlier, more than a median market
forecast for a 3.0 percent annual increase, government data
showed on Thursday.
That was also slower than a 5.7 percent climb in the year to
April, however, as a recovery in private consumption from last
year's earthquake starts to lose momentum.
Details were as follows (previous figures may be revised;
economists' median forecast in parentheses):
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