Latest data released by the Japan Department Store Association - 22 March 2018

  • Tokyo department store sales y/y +0.6% vs -0.2% prior

Data was scheduled to be released at 0530 GMT, so it's been released early.

Prior figures can be found here. A mixed bag of figures, but overall still not really encouraging signs from the retail sector. Japanese retail sales figures will be out on 29 march.

USD/JPY sitting at 105.75 a little off the lows, EUR/JPY at 130.71 and GBP/JPY at 149.70.