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Once slaves to luxury goods, Japanese catch the thrift bug

TOKYO " Not long ago, many Japanese bought so many $100 melons and $1,000 handbags that this was the only country in the world where luxury products were considered mass market.

Even through the economic stagnation of Japan's so-called lost decade, which began in the early 1990s, Japanese....

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