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Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by dilemma on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @07:46PM (#11023947)
I live in China, and previously in Japan. My point is that the majority of the Japanese economy is not made up of exports to China, which in turn are not in majority made up of robots, as the parent believes.
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Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by nullrouted on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @03:20AM (#11025380)
18% of their export economy is, which is a pretty large amount.

http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/jpn/

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Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by beachstartup on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @04:37PM (#11029955)
ELI5: a reduction in demand from china will have a huge impact on japan. i don't know what other weird yarn about robots you're trying to spin with my words.
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Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by dilemma on Thursday February 04, 2016 @09:51AM (#11034222)
You're not the parent; stop commenting.
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