Japanese household spending rose for the first time in five months in year-on-year terms in December and at a much faster-than-expected pace. Consumer spending climbed 2.7% in December from a year earlier,

Japanese household spending rose for the first time in five months in year-on-year terms in December and at a much faster-than-expected pace, but the government said it was too early to call a bottoming out in consumption's downtrend.