Investors getting ready to mourn Japan's demise

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With the Nikkei falling below 10,000, a collapse in the country's banking system is now imminent

Death is a tiring experience for those who have to witness it. Attitudes to mourning vary hugely across the globe. In some cultures, the deceased is sent off with a riotous celebration of the glorious afterlife to come. In others, a public face of misery is obligatory for months. In one particularly effective tradition, close relatives are encouraged to openly sob, scream and faint, day and night, for one whole week. They are entitled to tear their clothes, clobber their neighbours or throw food, breaking what are otherwise the strictest taboos. But on the eighth day, they must put their...

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