TOKYO - Capital spending by Japanese companies fell 11.3 percent in the April-June quarter from a year earlier, the largest drop in a decade, as the coronavirus pandemic clouded the business outlook, government data showed Tuesday.
Investment by all nonfinancial sectors for purposes such as building factories and adding equipment totaled 9.64 trillion yen ($91 billion), according to the Finance Ministry.
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