Analysis-BOJ may face more pressure to hike rates as weak yen hits consumer spending

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weak consumption may heighten, rather than tame, already growing political pressure on the central bank to raise interest rates to slow the yen's declines blamed for hurting households via higher import cos...

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