JAPAN CONSUMER PRICES UNCHANGED IN FEBRUARY

  Japan's consumer price index (base 1985)
  was unchanged at 99.7 in February from a month earlier, the
  government's Management and Coodination Agency said.
      The index showed a 0.4 pct drop in January.
      The February index was down one pct from a year earlier for
  the third consecutive year-on-year drop.
      In January, the index fell 1.1 pct from a year earlier, the
  first drop of over one pct since a 1.3 pct drop in September
  1958.
  

