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Japan Rebuilds Economic Walls

With firms ripe for takeover, gov't moves to make foreign investment tougher

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 30, 2008 1:30 PM CDT

(Newser) – Once, Japan was one of the world’s most closed economies, with near-impregnable barriers guarding against foreign investors. It's moving back in that direction, the Wall Street Journal reports. Companies are buying stakes in each other to complicate international takeover bids, and resurrecting the “... Read full story »

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