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The devastating March tsunami and shift of manufacturing overseas  plunged Japan's trade account into the red for the first time since  1980. Experts said the years of Japan running massive trade surpluses  are likely over.
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                    [Title] => Japan's economy rises out of earthquake slump
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Japan’s economy grew for the first time in four quarters in a comeback from the earthquake and tsunami disaster that already faces multiple global headwinds.
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                    [Title] => Disasters send Japanese economy into recession
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TOKYO – Japan’s economy shrank in the first quarter, veering back into recession as factory production and consumer spending wilted in the aftermath of March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
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                    [Title] => China overtakes Japan as world's No. 2 economy
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Japan lost its place as the world’s No. 2 economy to China in the second quarter as receding global growth sapped momentum and stunted a shaky recovery.
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                    [Title] => China overtakes Japan in 2Q as No. 2 economy
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Japan lost its place as the world's No. 2 economy to China in the second quarter as receding global growth sapped momentum and stunted a shaky recovery.
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                    [Title] => Opposition scrambles to create transition team
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TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's newly empowered leader Yukio Hatoyama rushed Monday to select Cabinet ministers after his party trounced the ruling conservatives in elections, sending them out of power for only the second time in 54 years.
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                    [Title] => Japan's PM dissolves parliament, calls elections
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TOKYO (AP) - Prime Minister Taro Aso dissolved the powerful lower house of Japan's parliament today and vowed his divided ruling party will make a new start in national elections next month despite forecasts it may lose the grip it has held on the nation for most of the past 55 years.
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                    [Title] => Japan economy shrinks at fastest rate in 35 years
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TOKYO(AP) -Strangled  by the collapse in global export demand, Japan's economy shrank at its fastest  rate in 35 years in the fourth quarter and shows no signs of reversing course  anytime soon.
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                    [Title] => Japan economy shrinks at fastest rate in 35 years
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TOKYO (AP) – Strangled by the collapse in global export demand, Japan's economy shrank at its fastest rate in 35 years in the fourth quarter and shows no signs of reversing course anytime soon.
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Japan posts first annual trade deficit since 1980

January 25, 2012 - 8:34pm

The devastating March tsunami and shift of manufacturing overseas plunged Japan's trade account into the red for the first time since 1980. Experts said the years of Japan running massive trade surpluses are likely...

Japan's economy rises out of earthquake slump

November 15, 2011 - 12:00am

Japan’s economy grew for the first time in four quarters in a comeback from the earthquake and tsunami disaster that already faces multiple global headwinds.

Business

Disasters send Japanese economy into recession

May 20, 2011 - 12:00am

TOKYO – Japan’s economy shrank in the first quarter, veering back into recession as factory production and consumer spending wilted in the aftermath of March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Business

China overtakes Japan as world's No. 2 economy

August 17, 2010 - 12:00am

Japan lost its place as the world’s No. 2 economy to China in the second quarter as receding global growth sapped momentum and stunted a shaky recovery.

Business

China overtakes Japan in 2Q as No. 2 economy

August 16, 2010 - 3:40pm

Japan lost its place as the world's No. 2 economy to China in the second quarter as receding global growth sapped momentum and stunted a shaky recovery.

Opposition scrambles to create transition team

August 31, 2009 - 12:52pm

TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's newly empowered leader Yukio Hatoyama rushed Monday to select Cabinet ministers after his party trounced the ruling conservatives in elections, sending them out of power for only the second...

Japan's PM dissolves parliament, calls elections

July 21, 2009 - 9:01pm

TOKYO (AP) - Prime Minister Taro Aso dissolved the powerful lower house of Japan's parliament today and vowed his divided ruling party will make a new start in national elections next month despite forecasts it may...

Japan economy shrinks at fastest rate in 35 years

February 17, 2009 - 9:15am

TOKYO(AP) -Strangled by the collapse in global export demand, Japan's economy shrank at its fastest rate in 35 years in the fourth quarter and shows no signs of reversing course anytime soon.

Japan economy shrinks at fastest rate in 35 years

February 17, 2009 - 4:04am

TOKYO (AP) – Strangled by the collapse in global export demand, Japan's economy shrank at its fastest rate in 35 years in the fourth quarter and shows no signs of reversing course anytime soon.