Robots still missing from the largest part of Japan’s economy

TOKYO (June 22): Japan is famous as a land of robots, but most of those machines haven’t made their way off of factory floors.

That presents an opportunity in a country with a serious labor shortage and a relatively unproductive services sector. Automation is seen as a key to better productivity and higher wages, which would in turn support consumption and help push inflation closer to the Bank of Japan’s 2% target.

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