Japan’s core private-sector machinery orders grew by 3.8 percent in October, marking the first increase in three months as the country’s economy continues to recover from the pandemic. Core machinery orders, which disregard those for ships and from electric power companies due to volatility, came to 870.8 billion yen ($7.67 billion) in October, according to the Cabinet Office data released on Monday. Orders from the manufacturing sector declined by 15.4 percent to 393.8 billion yen ($3.47 billion) in October, despite the sector showing an increase of 24.8 percent in the previous month. Orders from the non-manufacturing sector, which exclude volatile orders, rose 16.5 percent to 469.3 billion yen ($4.13 billion) from the 402.7 billion yen ($3.55 billion) in September. The total value of machinery orders received by 280 manufacturers operating in Japan rose 24.9 percent to 2,965.5 billion yen ($26.1 billion) in October from the previous month, according to the …