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September 29, 2016
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By Staff reports
Japan’s luxury sector boosted by Chinese tourists
For those who spend a lot of their time between the jewellery boutiques and the haute couture stores of Tokyo’s Ginza district, a new joke suggests an easy way to tell local Japanese from the Chinese tourists, reports the Financial Times.
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