People walk on the pavement in the Ginza shopping district in downtown Tokyo, past a shop whose lot is the highest priced piece of real estate in Japan, on July 1, 2009. Land prices have dropped across Japan for the first time in four years, testifying to the severe effect of the global financial crisis on the domestic real estate market, according to data released by the National Tax Agency on July 1. Getty Images logo Getty Images 5 months ago

People walk on the pavement in the Ginza shopping district in downtown Tokyo, past a shop whose lot is the highest priced piece of real estate in Japan, on July 1, 2009. Land prices have dropped across Japan for the first time in four years, testifying to the severe effect of the global financial crisis on the domestic real estate market, according to data released by the National Tax Agency on July 1.

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