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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi
And about her hardcore fanbase keeping her... EVERY big pop act that remains strong for years works like that... some stuff apeals to a major audience, but most of the time only die-hard fans know all the songs and stuff like that... It's not only with Ayu...
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There are definitely exceptions to that. Southern All Stars, B'z, and Mr. Children are not like that at all really.
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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi
Japan's economy actually is THAT bad... there's a lot of brazilians over there losing their jobs and coming back because they can't find anything else... (I have some relatives living in Japan and having problems), it's the biggest number of brazilians coming back since when they began to go there...
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All I can say is that when I was just there, I didn't feel that the economy was all that bad. Although I wasn't working there, the yen was actually quite strong when compared with dollar. (The exchange rate was freaking 83yen to the dollar! Its never had that wide a gap before in my 16 years of going to and from Japan.)