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Table 1. Japan's Historic Consumer Price Index (CPI-Japan) 1970-2010
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual
1970	31.8	31.9	32.1	32.5	32.3	32.3	32.3	32.2	32.8	33.3	33.3	33.6	32.5333
1971	33.8	33.8	33.9	34.3	34.4	34.6	34.5	34.5	35.4	35.5	35.1	35.1	34.5750
1972	35.2	35.4	35.7	36.1	36.2	36.3	36.3	36.5	36.7	37.0	36.9	37.2	36.2917
1973	37.5	37.9	38.8	39.5	40.2	40.2	40.5	40.9	42.0	42.2	42.5	43.9	40.5083
1974	45.8	47.3	47.6	48.8	49.0	49.2	50.2	50.7	51.4	52.6	53.0	53.2	49.9000
1975	53.8	53.9	54.3	55.3	55.6	55.6	55.7	55.6	56.8	57.7	57.4	57.4	55.7583
1976	58.5	58.9	59.1	60.5	60.8	60.9	61.2	60.9	62.4	62.7	62.7	63.5	61.0083
1977	64.0	64.4	64.7	65.8	66.4	66.1	66.0	66.1	67.1	67.6	66.8	66.7	65.9750
1978	66.9	67.3	67.9	68.6	69.0	68.7	69.0	69.1	69.8	70.0	69.3	69.2	68.7333
1979	69.3	69.1	69.8	70.6	71.2	71.3	72.0	71.2	72.1	73.0	72.7	73.2	71.2917
1980	73.9	74.5	74.9	76.3	76.9	77.2	77.3	77.1	78.4	78.6	78.7	78.5	76.8583
1981	79.3	79.2	79.4	80.1	80.8	80.9	80.7	80.3	81.6	81.8	81.7	81.8	80.6333
1982	81.8	81.7	81.8	82.4	82.8	82.8	82.3	82.9	84.1	84.4	83.6	83.5	82.8417
1983	83.6	83.3	83.8	84.1	85.0	84.5	84.1	83.9	84.9	85.6	85.2	84.9	84.4083
1984	85.2	85.7	85.9	86.0	86.7	86.0	86.2	85.5	86.8	87.5	87.0	87.2	86.3083
1985	87.5	87.1	87.5	88.0	88.2	88.2	88.3	88.2	88.2	89.0	88.3	88.4	88.0750
1986	88.8	88.7	88.6	88.9	89.1	88.7	88.4	88.2	88.7	88.8	88.3	88.2	88.6167
1987	87.8	87.8	88.2	89.0	89.1	89.0	88.5	88.6	89.4	89.4	89.0	88.9	88.7250
1988	88.6	88.4	88.8	89.2	89.3	89.1	89.0	89.2	89.9	90.4	90.0	89.7	89.3000
1989	89.6	89.3	89.7	91.3	91.9	91.8	91.6	91.5	92.3	93.0	92.0	92.1	91.3417
1990	92.5	92.6	93.0	93.8	94.2	93.9	93.7	94.1	94.8	95.8	95.7	95.6	94.1417
1991	96.2	95.9	96.4	97.0	97.4	97.1	97.0	97.2	97.3	98.4	98.6	98.1	97.2167
1992	97.9	97.8	98.3	99.3	99.4	99.3	98.6	98.9	99.3	99.4	99.2	99.2	98.8833
1993	99.1	99.2	99.5	100.2	100.3	100.2	100.5	100.7	100.8	100.7	100.2	100.3	100.1420
1994	100.4	100.4	100.8	101.0	101.1	100.7	100.3	100.7	101.0	101.5	101.2	100.9	100.8330
1995	100.9	100.6	100.5	100.8	101.0	100.9	100.4	100.5	101.1	100.8	100.5	100.5	100.7080
1996	100.4	100.2	100.4	101.0	101.2	100.9	100.8	100.7	101.1	101.3	101.0	101.1	100.8420
1997	101.0	100.8	100.9	103.0	103.2	103.2	102.8	102.9	103.6	103.9	103.2	103.0	102.6250
1998	102.9	102.8	103.2	103.4	103.7	103.3	102.7	102.6	103.4	104.1	104.0	103.6	103.3080
1999	103.1	102.7	102.8	103.3	103.3	103.0	102.6	102.9	103.2	103.4	102.8	102.5	102.9670
2000	102.4	102.0	102.2	102.5	102.6	102.4	102.0	102.4	102.2	102.2	101.9	102.0	102.2330
2001	102.0	101.7	101.5	101.7	101.8	101.5	101.2	101.6	101.4	101.4	100.9	100.8	101.4580
2002	100.6	100.1	100.3	100.6	100.9	100.8	100.4	100.7	100.7	100.5	100.5	100.5	100.5500
2003	100.2	99.9	100.2	100.5	100.7	100.4	100.2	100.4	100.5	100.5	100.0	100.1	100.3000
2004	99.9	99.9	100.1	100.1	100.2	100.4	100.1	100.2	100.5	101.0	100.8	100.3	100.2920
2005	100.1	99.8	100.1	100.2	100.3	99.9	99.8	99.9	100.2	100.2	99.8	99.9	100.0170
2006	100.0	99.7	99.9	100.1	100.4	100.4	100.1	100.8	100.8	100.6	100.1	100.2	100.2580
2007	100.0	99.5	99.8	100.1	100.4	100.2	100.1	100.6	100.6	100.9	100.7	100.9	100.3170
2008	100.7	100.5	101.0	100.9	101.7	102.2	102.4	102.7	102.7	102.6	101.7	101.3	101.7000
2009	100.7	100.4	100.7	100.8	100.6	100.4	100.1	100.4	100.4	100.0	99.8	99.6	100.3250
2010	99.4	99.3	99.6	99.6	99.7