The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Japan gov't overstated data on construction orders for 8 yearsTOKYO - The Japanese government overstated monthly data on construction orders for about eight years, officials said Wednesday, raising the possibility that the practice may have led to miscalculating the country's gross domestic product figures.The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism had double counted some of the data it received from the same businesses when compiling its monthly construction orders data since fiscal 2013, a…READ FULL ARTICLE