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OW JP Equities, Ihs JP Performance vs World, rhs Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Fund Manager Survey 2016 Our Japanese equity and FX strategist Shusuke Yamada has been arguing for a while that we would see both a weaker JPY and a rebound in Japanese equities. While arguably the JPY had turned beforehand, th