Jan.-March GDP grows 1.4% for 8th quarterly expansion

TOKYO, Japan - Heizo Takenaka, state minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy, fields questions from reporters after the Cabinet meeting at the Diet building on May 18. The government announced the same day Japan's economy marked a better-than-expected 1.4 percent growth in real terms in the January-March period, expanding for the eighth straight quarter on steady exports and a pickup in private consumption.

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