Japan’s wholesale prices surge 7.3% in FY 2021, fastest pace on record

This Nov. 24, 2015 photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter shows Mount Fuji seen looming in the distance behind skyscrapers shrouded in mist in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward. (Mainichi/Kenji Ikai) TOKYO (Kyodo) — Japan’s wholesale prices jumped 7.3 percent in the year to March 2022 from a year earlier, the fastest pace on record, driven…