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According to Tsutomu Sugiura, director of the Marubeni Research Institute, an economic think tank, Japanese cultural exports—such as from the media, licensing, entertainment and other related industries—have tripled over the past 10 years to $12.5 billion, while manufacturing exports have increased by only 20%. Granted, $12.5 billion seems like a rounding error in Japan's $4 trillion economy (Toyota alone hauls in nearly $11 billion in sales every month), but it's still the result of a growth rate almost unheard of anywhere else.
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