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Tokyo | San Francisco | Los Angeles | Japan

It Figures

by Josh Sens

65% That’s the number of Diners in Tokyo who pay in cash, according to Zagat Survey. Compare that to San Francisco (21%) and Los Angeles (20%), and you begin to wonder: Maybe in Japan they don’t have as strong a yen for credit-card debt. —

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