OSAKA — Rieko Ueda started her own business a year ago and expects it to turn a profit early next year, and yet part of her wishes it will someday go bankrupt.
Failure of the growing business — sales are increasing every month and are expected to top 25 million yen this year — would mean that troubled working mothers do not need Ueda’s services.
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