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For decades,

for decades,

for decades,

Japan had seemed entirely unable to shake its problems with low inflation,

and it's come at a sharper and sharper cost to its workers, to investors, to the whole economic system.

The Japanese economy is no longer... investors to the whole economic system.

The Japanese economy is no longer in the world's top three.

With total output for 2023 at 4.2 trillion dollars, the Japanese economy has now fallen

into fourth place globally behind Germany's the Japanese

4 and 1 half trillion.

Much of that loss in stature...

...