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The Empire Strikes Back

Reports of Japan's death as the world's leading economy were premature

Eamonn Fingleton •ï¿½The Observer •ï¿½January 7, 1996

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IT WAS hardly surprising Tony Blair, putative future UK prime minister, was to be found in Tokyo last week. After six years of financial winter Japan is back in the global economic driving seat. The consensus is that 1996 will be Japan's most prosperous year since the financial bubble burst in early 1990. The stock... Read More

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