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Japan February unemployment rate 2.6% (expected 2.4%, prior 2.4% also)

While these numbers for February as not as good as those in January they are a long way from being of concern. Japanese firms have mentioned the difficulty in finding labour, so perhaps they’ll find something positive to take away from this data.

The bigger focus was on the inflation data:

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.

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