A woman holding an umbrella stands near a Japan flag in front of an illuminated display at a shopping district in Tokyo December 28, 2012. Japan's core consumer prices fell 0.1 percent in November from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, in a sign of the persistent deflation that Japan's new prime minister has pledged to conquer with aggressive fiscal and monetary policy. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (JAPAN - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)