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Is Japan Losing Edge on Vending Machines?

Yoree Koh, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 21, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

It’s enough to make you cry into your ramen. First, the bullet trains aren’t 100% perfect, and now Japan’s losing out on its vaunted vending machine innovation. Or so it would appear from this week’s stories on the arrival in Tokyo of a vending machine that sells gold.