Thirty-year high for Tokyo condo prices hides bad economic news

Shinzo Abe's stimulus has boosted cost of housing, not level of wages

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Real estate companies are focusing on selling units in central city locales near train stations. © NurPhoto/Getty Images

The last thing Shinzo Abe wants to see in the public discourse right now is talk about 1990. That was the year Japan's bubble economy imploded, unleashing fallout with which officials in Tokyo are still grappling.

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