In addition to weak primary and secondary public education, less than 10% of adults from 18 to 64 years old have had any entrepreneurship training.

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The leading indicators also were up last week with the weak consumer sentiment the primary negative.

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The Tokyo-based Japan Center for Economic Research estimates that the economy shrank in both October and November, in large measure due to weak exports with Europe as the primary culprit.

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