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The painful path to curing Japan of its cash addiction

15 mins | Aug 3, 2019

Why is Japan addicted to cash? Leo Lewis and Kana Inagaki, writing in the Financial Times explore how a switch to electronic payments could save up to $15bn a year. Will a new wave of digital payment methods be enough to gain public trust?

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