Recession risk looms for Japan in global analyst survey

Weak potential growth leaves economy vulnerable to slowing outside demand

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While the economic outlook in the U.S. and Europe is brightening, Japan is being left behind. (Photo by Kosaku Mimura)

KAZUYA MANABE and YOHEI MATSUO, Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- Japan's economy is on course for a major downturn as demand from China ebbs, according to a survey of international economists, underscoring Tokyo's continued failure to improve the country's stubbornly low potential growth rate.

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