Exports increased 17.5 percent from a year earlier, the ministry said, while imports climbed 41.1 percent, the government's preliminary report said.
Japan logged a goods trade deficit of 1.47 trillion yen (12.85 billion dollars) for the whole of 2021, falling into the red after logging a 388.3 billion yen surplus (3.39 billion dollars) in 2020, the finance ministry also said.
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