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Video: Japan’s ailing economy

 

 
 

Falling demand hits export-driven economy

 
 

Japanese exports have been hit hard by the global economic downturn. For companies like Toyota, Nissan and Honda, it is not just profits that are disappearing, but also jobs.

Al Jazeera’s Tony Cheng, reporting from Tokyo, says experts who watched Japan’s struggle in the 1990s with a decade of recession fear that this might be the straw that breaks the backs of the country’s workers.