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Culture Reflections

Can Japan Survive Mass Tourism?

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How will people react when they find their favourite sushi place filled with foreigners squirting ketchup on the maguro?

Articles Finance

Abe’s Next Move: Doubling Down on Growth

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The yen has acted as a financial version of the “wind of the gods” – the fortuitous typhoon that destroyed the fleet of Kublai Khan

Articles Culture Politics

The Wave of the Future: Japan’s “Happy” Chinese New Year

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Until recently in Japanese eyes a typical foreigner meant a white Westerner. Now the foreigners that ordinary Japanese meet in the flesh are likely to be fellow Asians

Articles Business

The Last Virgin Flies Out Of Tokyo

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Don’t tell me defaulting, depopulating Detroit is more “globally critical” than Tokyo, comfortably the largest city in the world by economic output.