"Japan’s eye-watering national debt has topped Y1 quadrillion, official data shows, a record figure that underlines Tokyo’s struggle to curb its huge borrowing.The figure supplied by the finance ministry of Y1.008 quadrillion by the end of June amounts to about $11.51 trillion at current exchange rates."
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Japan national debt at one quadrillion yen
August 10th 2013
THE AGE