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I live in Japan and purchase a lot of stuff online. There is almost nothing I want from the US or the UK (my country of origin) save Marmite and strong British tea, because I prefer the price and quality of things made in Asia. There is nothing new about this. East Asians have been making things better since the silk road and the Opium Wars (enforced opium import to China to pay for the goods that Westerners wanted from China). The so called structural restrictions, such as the lack of large stores, were removed in the 90s (with great damage to some Japanese retailers of course), but still the large stores stock Japanese and other East Asian products because no one wants Western stuff. There are exceptions. Ikea, Toys-R-US, MacDonalds among them but "structural restrictions in the Japanese import market" needs citation or it should be removed.--
Timtak (
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05:20, 14 January 2017 (UTC)reply
The graph in the article is very deceptive. First, the left axis is zero based, whilst the right axis starts at 100. Second, the arbitrary use of the left axis for three different currencies distorts the variation. The GBP and FFR developments, for example, were similar during the period shown, but appear quite different in the graph. The DEM and JPY developments were also much more similar than they appear in the graph. The correct way to compare developments of the four currencies would be to use indices, with all four starting at 1 (or 100).
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12:28, 27 December 2011 (UTC)reply
Call for Improvement
I am going to call for improvement on this Wikipedia article, and invite everyone interested in updating the following areas:
The content outline of the Plaza Accord
Analysis of The argument and trade made in the Accord.
The initial comment and prediciton at the time of signagure.