TOKYO--Japan logged its biggest trade deficit in nearly five years in January, as trade tensions and a global economic slowdown weighed on exports and threatened the country's main engine of growth. The value of Japan's January exports fell by a faster than-expected 8.4% from a year ago to 5.574 trillion yen, a two-year-low, according to data released by the country's finance ministry on Wednesday.
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