In Japan’s Slow Economy, Rare Price Rise Prompts Surplus of Remorse (Published 2016)

A teenager in Kawasaki, Japan, eating a Garigari-kun, a popular ice cream bar. The price of the bar was recently raised for the first time in a quarter-century.Credit...Ko Sasaki for The New York Times TOKYO — One of the most talked-about television commercials in Japan this year advertises an unusual product: contrition. The ad shows a group of workers and executives from an ice cream company lin

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“contrition”

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988 Garigari-kun >The rising cost of raw materials finally forced Akagi’s hand, he said. Tighter logging restrictions in China, for instance, meant it had to use more expensive Russian lumber for ice cream sticks. >A disorganized political opposition has offered little in the way of alternatives,

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"A teenager in Kawasaki, Japan, eating a Garigari-kun"

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“Garigari-kun”

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ガリガリ君値上げ問題を詳報するNYT

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ガリガリ君は「ice cream bar」なの？「ice candy bar 」じゃないの？

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ガリガリ君と日本のデフレ by Jonathan Soble