Inside Japan’s “Healing Industry”

Anthony Faiola has an interesting piece in today’s Washington Post about the rise of Japan’s “healing industry,” one of the country’s fastest growing economic segments. “Luxury day spas and high-end massage clinics have grown 11-fold over the past four years into a $1 billion business, according to Yumiko Arimoto, an analyst at Mitsubishi UFJ,” he writes. “The spas offer treatments such as aromatherapy and Hawaiian Lomi Lomi massages, some costing $300 or more per hour.” It’s a little bit California, Faiola writes, and a whole lot Japan.

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