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Japan's Finance Minister Jun Azumi talks during a news conference ...
Feb 26th, 2012
(Reuters) - Japan's Finance Minister Jun Azumi talks during a news conference as part of the Group of Twenty (G20) leading economies' finance ministers and central bankers meeting in Mexico City February 25, 2012. REUTERS/Bernardo Montoya (MEXICO - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS) -
By Stanley White TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan risks missing, yet again, an opportunity to use foreign investment to help fuel sustained economic growth that has eluded it for the last two decades. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to make Japan "the world's easiest country for companies to do business in" as part of his economic revival p... [Full Article]
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