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Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) is led by a Shinto priest as he visits Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo in this December 26, 2013, file photo. (REUTERS/Toru Hanai/Files)


Analysis: Japan in Ten Points

Analysis: Japan in Ten Points

by | Feb 27, 2014 | World

1) Lost in the “lost decades” Nearly two decades after the asset price bubble burst in the early 1990s, and buffeted by 2008 financial crisis, Japan’s economy has failed to recover. There was a record-breaking 11.5 trillion yen full-year trade deficit in 2013....