Scenes of a Stagnant Japanese Economy
Andreas Seibert for TIME
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If there is any place that needs to change, it's Sendai. A modest town of 1 million people, it is the capital of the prefecture of Miyagi, where unemployment, at 6.4% in 2009, was well above the national rate of 5.1%.
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