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Professor Ulrike Schaede Quoted in The New York Times

"Japan

03/26/2009
HIROKO TABUCHI, The New York Times

SAITAMA, Japan —The finance ministry announced Wednesday that exports from Japan, the world’s second-largest economy, fell by a record 49 percent in February compared with a year earlier. It was the fifth consecutive month that exports have fallen. Shipments to the United States fell 58 percent. Japan’s trade surplus was down 91 percent, to 82.4 billion yen, or about $840 million.

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