TOKYO (AFX-ASIA) - Domestic wholesale prices in May were flat month-on-month, the same as March, and down 1.2 pct year-on-year, after falling 1.2 pct the previous month, the Bank of Japan said. Earlier, private-sector economists forecast May domestic WPI would come in at a fall of 1.0-1.3 pct year-on-year, with a consensus of a fall of 1.1 pct. Month-on-month, they forecast domestic WPI would come in at between a rise of 0.1 pct and a fall of 0.1 pct, with a consensus of a rise of 0.1. The central bank provided the following April data, compared with the previous month: Domestic WPI - flat pct mth-on-mth vs flat - down 1.2 pct yr-on-yr vs down 1.2 Export WPI - down 2.5 pct mth-on-mth vs up revised 0.6 - up 0.6 pct yr-on-yr vs up revised 1.6 Import WPI - down 1.9 pct mth-on-mth vs up 2.7 - down 0.6 pct yr-on-yr vs flat