Faced with a deteriorating economy, the Hashimoto government has fallen back on conventional policies.
In America, for example, house prices have fallen back only to where they were in 2004.
In 1938, it had fallen back to 5%, and stayed at low levels until the 1970s.
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In the case of platinum, prices have fallen back to the cost of production for many mines.
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The Gulf monarchies, meanwhile, have fallen back on their cheque books, vying to lavish the Palestinians with aid.
The unemployment rate of 25-to-34-year-olds rose higher than the unemployment rate overall and has only recently fallen back in line.
By then, analysts guess, the price will have fallen back a bit, along with some of the wilder share valuations.
Hawick, Jedburgh and Kelso had registered rises in 2009 - but they too have now fallen back to below 2007 levels.
Still, several traders said gold is now back above its 200-day moving average after having fallen back below over the last week.
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The yield on the 10-year Treasury note has fallen back to 3.25%.
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By the time of the auction, three-month interbank rates had fallen back to well below the 6.75% set by the central bank.
While the fall in interest rates in 2009 helped people shift their spending into paying off debt and saving more, that process has fallen back.
Since 2005, people have fallen back in love with the brand.
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Oil prices have fallen back, consumer confidence has shot up, share prices are well off their mid-March lows and spreads on corporate bonds have narrowed.
"All stock markets in all countries at all stages in history have always fallen back to, or below, their long term trend line, " he says.
The Dubai announcement caused the cost of this insurance to rise sharply for the emirate itself, though it has since fallen back a bit (see chart).
As I warned last week, many of the emerging markets had fallen back to support, and the violation of the recent lows makes a further decline likely.
As a whole, Radio 1's weekly audience of 11.85 million last year has fallen back to 11.19 million, losing 100, 000 listeners in the last three months alone.
Its 10% slice this year will equal that achieved by Japan at its peak in 1986, but Japan's share has since fallen back to less than 5%.
If the UK economy does contract in the first three months of the year, it will have fallen back into recession for the third time in five years.
The company has since fallen back to earth, and last year its share price was trading below the 1, 000-yen level for the first time in over two decades.
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Earlier, they had temporarily fallen back after the head of the oil producers' group Opec said he did not expect the turmoil in Egypt to affect the canal.
He and his two colleagues believe the deficit has "fallen back somewhat", but that the December 2012 actuarially measured deficit will be somewhat greater than it was three years ago.
"The Spanish economy has fallen back into recession in first-quarter 2012, and Moody's does not expect conditions to improve during 2012, " the rating agency said as it announced the downgrades.
Critics suggest that Eden must have struggled financially in recent years, as visitor numbers have fallen back from two million people in its first year to current levels of 1.2 million.
Radiation readings on Thursday showed levels in water in Tokyo had fallen back below the danger level, but the municipal authorities are distributing thousands of bottles of water to households with infants.
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