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Tokyo Olympics costs jump amid construction labour shortage

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Posted on 03 August 2014. Tags: Tokyo, jump, Amid, Olympics, Costs, shortage, Construction, labour

Tokyo Olympics costs jump amid construction labour shortage Abenomics, Shinzo Abe’s quest to bring growth and inflation back to Japan, has thrown a spanner in the works of Tokyo’s preparations to host the 2020 Olympic Games as a chronic labour shortage in the construction industry and inflated materials prices …

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