TOKYO, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Japanese retail sales fell 2.7 percent in December from a year earlier, a bigger drop than a median market forecast for a 1.6 percent decline, government data showed on Thursday.
Details were as follows (previous figures may be revised; economists' median forecast in parentheses): ------------------------------------------------------- Retail sales DEC NOV OCT ------------------------------------------------------- year/year -2.7 (-1.6) -0.9 -0.7 month/month -2.0 -0.1 -0.6 ------------------------------------------------------- To view full tables, go to the website of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry at: http://www.meti.go.jp/english/statistics/index.html (Reporting by Hideyuki Sano; Editing by Chris Gallagher)