Japan's real wages in August fell 0.6 percent from a year earlier, marking the first decline in three months, as wage growth failed to keep pace with an acceleration of price increases, government data showed Tuesday.The drop in inflation-adjusted wages, a barometer of consumers' purchasing power, also reflected the fading impact of higher summer bonuses paid in June and July. Real wages marked the first rise in 27 months in June.Japanese companies agreed to their biggest wage hikes in three decades during this year's labor-management negotiations, driven in part by worker shortages. The go…READ FULL ARTICLE
