Japan's shopping centres post a 6% September, lifted by a rare five-day Silver Week
JCSC's own September figures show existing shopping-centre sales up 6.0% year on year nationwide, but a once-since-2015 five-day Silver Week — not a shift in underlying demand — is doing most of the lifting, with a catch for anyone benchmarking a Japanese retail floor off this month.
Japan's shopping centres posted a strong September, with sales at existing centres up 6.0% year on year nationwide, according to the Japan Council of Shopping Centers (JCSC), in its monthly SC Sales Statistics Survey Report.