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A mini-bubble is building in Japan’s property market

Froth has returned to Japan’s housing market, especially in urban areas where prices are now back to levels seen just before the collapse of the property bubble in the early nineties. A price correction is likely at some point, but the impact on the economy will be much smaller than after the bursting of Japan’s last property bubble.

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