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Japan’s underappreciated edge.

July 2021 / 14 min

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Key Points

  • Inflation is not an unhelpful thing for Japan as a whole, or for us as investors
  • Internet businesses have better lower-cost models than their offline equivalents, so we think they would continue to take market share
  • Our approach to growth investing in Japan remains flexible
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