Nickel bag. (Blowfish).You want a shopping bag, you gotta pay a tax for it. Tokyo's Suginami Ward is mulling over the idea anyway. Amazingly 59.5 percent of Nikkei Nikkei Short for Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average, the leading and most-respected index of Japanese stocks. It is a price-weighted index comprised of Japan's top 225 blue-chip companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The Nikkei is equivalent to the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index in the U.S. In fact, it was called the Nikkei Dow Jones Stock Average from 1975 to 1985. Business readers who responded to an Internet poll said they'd support the idea. It will give consumers a greater awareness of the environment and resources, said 86.3 percent. And moreover, it will cut waste, agreed 84.4 percent. Among the 40.1 percent who voiced opposition to the idea, 54.4 percent said they doubted if the tax would have any impact on bag consumption.
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