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Hello and welcome to Business Matters here on the BBC World Service.
I'm Rahul Tanden.
A slightly different program today because normally we tend to have a guest.
Are we in the US and then we.
Or in North America, and then we try and have a guest in Asia?
We, we decided today we're gonna go all Asia instead.
So we have two guests who are on the same sides of the world to some extent.
In Tokyo, we have Yoko Ishikura, professor emeritus at Hito Tsubashi University.
Yoko, thank you so much for joining us.
How are you this morning in Japan?
Good, how are you?
Thanks for having me back on Christmas Day.
Well, thank you for volunteering to come back on Christmas Day and guide us through some stories.