A sales woman waits customers at luxury department store in the Ginza district of Tokyo, on November 17, 2014. Official data showed that the Japanese economy unexpectedly contracted by 1.6 percent in the three months between July-September according to the Cabinet Office on Monday 17, 2014. It is expected that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will postpone a second sales-tax increase to 10 percent after these disappointing GDP figures. (Photo by Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO)