The economy has bottomed out, the government said Monday, maintaining its basic assessment of the economy in its report for June.
"While the economy continues to be in a difficult situation, it has bottomed out," the Cabinet Office said in its report, leaving the wording unchanged from a month earlier.
In the May report, the government declared the economy had for the first time bottomed out in the latest recession.
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