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Japanese whisky at ¥100000 a bottle driving rice farmers to the drink
With domestic rice consumption sliding, Tsubouchi, 36, says he is getting on the whisky bandwagon — or, at least, switching to the barley used to make it. With Japanese whiskies ranking among the best — and most expensive — in the world, the profits …
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The Chinese economy is heading towards the trainwreck Japan experienced in the …
To Roy Smith, an academic at New York University, the breakneck growth seen in recent decades may be nearing its end, suggesting that he sees parallels with Japan's build-up of bad loans in the late 1980s, which ended up hobbling the once high-flying …
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New Sense of Fragility in Japanese Town Struck Twice by Quakes
Even in Japan, the most seismically unstable country in the world, that fact had apparently created a false sense of security. That was before two earthquakes struck within just over a day last week. On Sunday, some braved the seemingly endless …
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