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A record 72 shops went bankrupt in Japan this year thanks to a combination of rising prices and the so-called "1000 yen wall."
Online gambling is illegal in Japan. That hasn't stopped people from getting hooked on it - and some are turning to crime as a result.
Tonkatsu is under attack - by high cabbage prices. A bad haul has sent prices for the critical veggie spiraling up to historic new highs.
Traveling to Japan? Chances are you've heard one of these eight "facts" about the country that are mostly wrong.
You'll find a lot of natural beauty on Okinawa's outlying islands. There's something that's harder to find, however: women.
A change a few years back brought the Western alphabet to Japanese license plates as custom plates exhaust unique combinations.

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