Japan's real wages down for 20th straight month in November

TOKYO, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Japanese workers' real wages in November fell 3.0 percent from a year earlier for the 20th consecutive month of decline as the pace of wage hikes failed to keep up with rising prices, government data showed Wednesday.

Nominal wages, the average total monthly cash earnings per worker, including base and overtime pay, rose a paltry 0.2 percent to 288,741 yen (2,000 U.S. dollars) from the