The biggest attraction in Tokyo today is a mall -- in Shinjuku, arguably the most over-built, over-commercialized, overrun-with-stores area on the planet, Hong Kong notwithstanding. More than two-point-five million people have streamed thru the complex since it opened. NPR's Julie McCarthy reports on the success of the mall, why the shoppers keep pouring into the stores, and the changes in the Japanese national character that have been wrought by that country's economic prosperity.
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