China News Service, May 20. According to Kyodo News, Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications announced on the 20th that the national consumer price index in April was 101.4, an increase of 2.1% compared with the same period last year, the largest increase in about seven years.
According to reports, previously affected by the increase in consumption tax, the increase in March 2015 reached 2.2%.
The report pointed out that the increase was mainly due to the increase in resource prices and the depreciation of the yen brought about by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
One of the reasons is that the effect of mobile phone tariff reduction to lower the index dissipates.