Foreign investors in Japan are justifiably agitated about government plans requiring investors to get permission from regulators if they intend to buy more than 1% of the stock of a strategically sensitive company.
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Shinzo Abe is on his way to a cabinet meeting on Oct. 18, which is set to approve revisions to the foreign exchange law: Japan's attempts to establish a set of legal criteria to decide what is acceptable have been hamfisted. (Photo by Uichiro Kasai)
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