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27-Sep-2001
How do we make sense of the real Japan? There are plenty of economic indicators that tell us it?s the recession-ridden ?sick man of Asia?. New prime minister Junichiro Koizumi has warned things will get worse before they get better. But is this gloomy picture mirrored in duty-free? When DFNI?s John Rimmer travelled to Japan last month (just before the tragedy in the US), he found a market beset by contradictions.
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How do we make sense of the real Japan? There are plenty of economic indicators that tell us it?s the recession-ridden ?sick man of Asia?. New prime minister Junichiro Koizumi
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