The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Japan's real wages down for 2nd straight year in FY 2023TOKYO - Japan's monthly average real, or inflation-adjusted, wages fell 2.2 percent in the last fiscal year to March, declining for the second straight year as inflation outpaced wage growth, the government said Thursday.The decline follows a 1.8 percent decrease in fiscal 2022 and marks the largest drop since fiscal 2014 when real wages fell by 2.9 percent due to a consumption tax hike, according to the revised data released by the Ministry of Health…READ FULL ARTICLE