Property consultants and logistics property developers said there had been an upturn in investment interest in logistics and business parks in recent months as a way to tap into the growth of e-commerce and rising domestic consumption.

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Before that, personal consumption expenditures for December will be released Monday, and Wall Street expects the Commerce Department to report a 0.9% drop.

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Then, with the advent of the newest trends in e-commerce such as flash sales websites, personal subscriptions, and collaborative consumption, virtual shopping became just as overwhelming and complicated as real life shopping.

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The Bank of Japan, now formally independent of the government, could also help by loosening monetary policy further (ie, by printing money) in order to oil the wheels of commerce and to seek to reverse the price deflation which is itself restraining consumption.

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