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"We No Longer Need the Japanese Yen": Smartphone Payments Are Spreading in Ikebukuro's Chinatown. a "Parallel Society" without Even the Shopping District Is Involved. Can Japan Be Protected? Silent Erosion, Part 4

There's a town entirely run by Chinese people. Leaving the north exit of Tokyo's Ikebukuro Station, the smell of spices and oil on the breeze hits you. Chinese is spoken everywhere along the roughly 200-meter-square street, and the multi-tenant building is lined with Chinese restaurants and Chinese food stores. There are said to be more than 200 of them...
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There's a town entirely run by Chinese people. Leaving the north exit of Tokyo's Ikebukuro Station, the smell of spices and oil on the breeze hits you. Chinese is spoken everywhere along the roughly 200-meter-square street, and the multi-tenant building is lined with Chinese restaurants and Chinese food stores. There are said to be more than 200 of them...

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産経ニュース broke the news in Japan on Wednesday, March 4, 2026.
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