Despite the prolonged economic doldrums in Japan, top-brand handbags, jewelry and others items imported from Europe are selling quite well as manufacturers step up their offensive.
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On the peak Christmas shopping holidays of Dec. 23 and 24, customers formed a long line in front of the Louis Vuitton shop, which opened the month before in the Matsuya Co. department store in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district.