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It's not a floodgates vs nothing situation. You can certainly decide on an appropriate rate that you're comfortable with - enough to jumpstart the economy but not enough to completely drown out the host culture.

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Hasn't Japan already done that? Secondly, I think it's very Western-centric viewpoint that your country's economy comes before everything else.

I mean without a strong economy everything else around it kinda goes to shit.

As an American I'm inclined to agree, but I still think that's for the Japanese to decide.

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