Japan’s Domestic Corporate Goods Prices rose by the largest monthly amount in exactly one year. The 0.4% jump in the cost of raw materials comes after Japanese companies found themselves paying less for such goods nine months in a row. Much of the recent upswing in costs can be attributed to a 7.5% in the cost of petroleum and coal and not necessarily a resurgence of domestic demand-led inflation. Domestic demand-led inflation must be ruled out because it appears as though many of these costs were imported. Indeed, import prices rose 1.1% while the cost of petroleum and coal that was imported rose 7.0%. This was coupled by a 1.5% decrease in the price of goods shipped abroad, which would imply that domestic prices had actually fallen in price.