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17 December 2005

Japanese Economy On the Move Again

After a decade of slow reconstruction, the Japanese economy has falled into step with other advanced capitalist economies. The system has been deregulated and opened up, with a consequent rise in casualisation and inequality - not to the extent of Western countries, but enough to cause suffering in some sections of the community.

Guests

Bill Emmott
Editor of the Economist magazine