As the national and regional economies worsen, industrial production plummets and tens of thousands of workers lose their jobs, what should the Kansai region do?
Secede from Japan.
That's the proposal Osamu Tanaka, chairman of Hanshin Expressway Co. Ltd., made at the annual Kansai Economic Seminar, an annual two-day gathering of the region's senior business leaders that concluded Friday.
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