Scenes of a Stagnant Japanese Economy

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Long before Apple introduced the iPad, it was Japan's Sony that invented the must-have gadgets that changed global lifestyles. Japan didn't need answers; it was the answer. Yet that vivacity has been lost. The same policies and practices that sparked Japan's miracle have come to strangle it, like a debilitating arthritis in the body of Japanese society.

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