A price sign is prepared for boil-in-the bag food ahead of a consumption tax hike at an Aeon Co. supermarket in Chiba, Japan, on Monday, March 31, 2014. The country's consumption tax is being raised tomorrow for the first time since 1997 to 8 percent from 5 percent. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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