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Next to her high cost agricultural production, Japan’s cumbersome distribution system with its large mark-ups charged along the way is considered as a major factor increasing retail prices and hence limiting consumption.
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Rothacher, A. (1989). Distribution and Consumption. In: Japan’s Agro-Food Sector. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10303-4_6
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