Calls are growing for legislation to halt an online form of extortion that punishes nonpaying business operators, such as restaurants, with a barrage of negative reviews.
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Japan s economy, which has already been facing downward pressure against a backdrop of the Ukraine crisis and the yen s depreciation, may also be plagued by China s radical "zero COVID" policy and the yuan s rising trend.
With energy and commodity prices increasing globally as the Ukraine war rages, resource-poor Japan might experience "bad inflation" a combination of an economic downturn and higher costs.