This is not consumer pricing, Japanese PPI for Nov.

2.3 % y/y

  • expected 2.4% y/y, prior 3.0%, revised from 2.9%

-0.3 % m/m

  • expected -0.1% m/m, prior 0.4%, revised from 0.3%

This was out a while ago (2350GMT) but swamped by the Trump/Huawei news