When Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten expanded overseas, it looked first to Taiwan, whose close ties with Tokyo have long made it attractive to Japanese companies eager to escape slow growth at home.
“You know how bad the economy has been in Japan – it has only recovered recently,” said Ejiri Yuichi, Rakuten Taiwan’s chief executive, of an economy that has been struggling to restart inflation after years of meagre growth.
With real wages largely flat, “especially in the service industry, it has been a difficult time”, he said.
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