For the Record (5)

June 10, 1980

Japan's total gross national product, the market value fo the country's goods and services, rose 6.1 percent in the 1979 financial year, which ended this March, after a 5.7 percent annual gain in fiscal 1978, the Economic Planning Agency said Monday. Inflation in Japan, now at 8 percent, is expected to reach 10 percent or higher this year.