TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan logged a goods trade deficit of 1.20 trillion yen ($11 billion) in 2018, government data showed Wednesday, the first red ink in three years as the cost of energy imports surged.
Imports rose 9.7 percent from a year earlier to 82.69 trillion yen, outpacing a 4.1 percent increase in exports to 81.49 trillion yen.
