TOKYO - Japan's real wages in July rose 2.4 percent from a year earlier, increasing for the seventh straight month, government data showed Tuesday.

Nominal wages per worker, including base and overtime pay, were up 4.7 percent at 436,401 yen ($2,830), marking the sixth straight month of growth exceeding 3 percent and the first such streak in more than 34 years, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said.