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Japan: Healthy Man of Asia

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Oct 26, 2012
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Although Japan has long been regarded as the sick man of Asia, a trip to Tokyo finds a city that is efficient, modern, well run and filled with people who show no particular sign of distress despite all of the conventional warning signals.

In fact, Japan is actually arguably the healthy man of Asia, according to a new contrarian report issued by the Hong…

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