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Japan’s Leader Weighs Questions of Elections and Taxes

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  The country that supplies more foreign visitors to Hawaii than any other has fallen back into recession.  News out this morning confirms that Japan’s economy shrank for a second consecutive quarter.  And one effect that could bring is a new set of elections.  HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in today’s Asia Minute.

Bill Dorman joined HPR in 2011 and was named its executive editor in 2025.
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