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Japan has entered a pivotal moment in its economic history, undertaking its most ambitious policy and structural reforms in a generation to escape from decades of stagnation. The nation’s post-war boom ended abruptly in the early 1990s, ushering in three "lost decades" of falling prices, anemic growth and a moribund stock market. Now, after a radical and long-waged battle against deflation, the frost is finally beginning to thaw.
