Japan logged a goods trade deficit of ¥82.08 billion ($749 million) in November, hit by weak exports to China amid a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy, government data showed Wednesday.

The trade deficit followed a revised ¥15.66 billion surplus in October, according to a preliminary report by the Finance Ministry.

In the reporting month, exports dropped 7.9 percent from a year earlier to ¥6.38 trillion, down for the 12th straight month, and imports tumbled 15.7 percent to ¥6.46 trillion, falling for the seventh consecutive month, the ministry said.