Mumbai, Nov. 11 -- Overall bank lending in Japan was up 4.1 percent on year in October, the Bank of Japan said on Tuesday - coming in at 650.798 trillion yen.

Excluding trusts, bank lending jumped an annual 4.5 percent to 571.866 trillion yen - up from 4.2 percent in September.

Lending from trusts was up 1.5 percent at 78.931 trillion yen - up from 1.3 percent a month earlier.

Lending from foreign banks jumped 27.0 percent on year to 6.476 trillion yen.

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