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	<title>Financial Standard Comments - Chief economist update: Japan economy tanks depsite looser restrictions</title>
	<description>Japan may have imposed less stringent coronavirus containment measures relative to its peers but even this didn't stop its economy from contracting big time, for the third consecutive quarter.</description>
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