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Sayonara, good times - as Japan slips into recession J-REITs hit buffers

By and Doug Morrison Doug MorrisonGlobal December 2008

Nightmare on the Nikkei: Tokyo’s main stock market has fallen by 50% this year, and J-REITs have been among the casualties

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As Japan slips into recession, the spectre of the ‘lost decade’ of the 1990s returns to haunt the property market. Doug Morrison reports from Tokyo

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