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Tokyo & Osaka diverge, business investment resilient?

Cases are now rising fast across most major Japanese cities and hit a record high at the national level this week. However, the leaders of the country’s two major metropolitan areas have put forward opposing views on the best way to respond to the renewed outbreak. Meanwhile, we look at whether business investment will hold up any better this year than it did during the global financial crisis.

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