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Japan's jobless rate fell to 4.4 percent in May
Toshifumi Kitamura
A homeless man sleeps on a bench in Tokyo in March 2012. Japan's jobless rate fell to 4.4 percent in May, edging down from 4.6 percent the previous month, the internal affairs ministry said.