To get an idea of how Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is faring in his quest to lift his country out of two decades of stagnation, look no further than the skirts of the girl group Machikado Keiki Japan. The band, whose name translates roughly as “street corner economic conditions”, became a …
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Meet the Japanese girlband whose skirts get shorter when the Nikkei rises