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apanese media has been “agog” to learn that workers in fast-food restaurants in California may soon earn $22 per hour, says Gearoid Reidy on Bloomberg. At the current yen-dollar exchange rate, that’s ¥3,300 or almost four times Japan’s average minimum wage. Ever more shockingly,