Luxury-brand bags, watches and shoes can easily be purchased on the Internet along with their cheaper counterfeit counterparts, which are illegal but nonetheless widespread.
Customs officials in recent years have made record seizures of counterfeit luxury-brand products imported from abroad.
Why are so many fake goods coming into Japan and which ones are in hot demand?
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