Weak yen drives U.S. shoppers to Japan proxy sites

Foreign buyers get their hands on specialty Japanese goods at hefty discounts

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Proxy sites provide consumers outside Japan with direct access to some of the country's biggest e-commerce platforms. (Photo by Tatsuhiro Yuki)

JACK STONE TRUITT, Nikkei staff writer

NEW YORK -- Foreign consumers are flocking to online proxy shopping sites to buy Japanese goods as the yen fell to a 34-year low this week.

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