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Global Business: Two Views of Japan 

14/04/2012

Two Views of Japan 

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Two contrasting views on Japan and its economy. Does Japan have lessons for us all?

The last 20 years in Japan look to have been abject grey economic failure.  

It seems that successive attempts to restart the economy have not worked.  

But if you look around Tokyo it’s a country that still appears very rich. So what is going on here?  

Peter Day attempts to find out by hearing two contrasting views of Japan.

Noriko Hama is Economics professor at Doshisha University, Kyoto and very pessimistic on the  plight of Japan, but Eamonn Fingleton Tokyo based author, is writing a book on why Japan is much better off than it seems.

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