This week’s “shunto” spring wage negotiations got underway against an inauspicious backdrop, with corrected official data showing that real wages didn’t rise at all last year. Next week, Japan’s zero interest rate policy, which was conceived as a last ditch effort to deal with deflation, turns 20.
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