Japan's domestic oil product sales last month rose 4.8% from a year earlier to 2.57 million barrels per day (bpd), the data showed.

Gasoline sales dropped 5.7% to 817,372 bpd, while kerosene sales slumped 15.3% from a year earlier to 101,859 bpd, according to the data.

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