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Japanese people have budgeted less than 60,000 yen ($410) on average for their summer break this year, down 2.6 percent from last year amid persistent inflation and a weak yen, recent survey results showed. The decline to an average of 58,561 yen comes despite sharp pay increases by large domestic firms following “shunto” spring wage negotiations and a tax cut program by the government that began in June. Among responses obtained between June 27 and July 1 from 5,000 people aged between 15 and 79 nationwide, 69.6 percent said their summer holiday budgeting had been impacted either “significant…

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