A major internet company in Japan has awarded Olympic figure skater Hanyu Yuzuru its grand prize for topping the number of hits on its search engine this year.

Yahoo Japan awards people or works that see the biggest yearly rises in searches. It released the results in multiple categories on Monday.

A report by the BOJ highlights that prices in Japan are under downward pressure amid the pandemic.

The central bank estimates that Japan's output gap stood at minus 4.83 percent in the April-June quarter. A negative reading means that demand is falling short of supply.