Finance & economics | Japan
The incredible shrinking economy
Japan is in danger of suffering not one but two lost decades
|Tokyo
Illustration by S. Kambayashi
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “The incredible shrinking economy”
From the April 4th 2009 edition
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