<p style="text-align:left;" size="0" _root="undefined" __ownerid="undefined" __hash="undefined" __altered="false">Japan's gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 1.8% for the first quarter of 2024, less than the preliminary estimate reported earlier, thanks to revised capital spending and inventories, official data showed Monday.</p><p style="text-align:justify;" size="0" _root="undefined" __ownerid="undefined" __hash="undefined" __altered="false"></p>