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Japanese Recession Hits Hard as 2009 Exports Plummet

On November 18th 2008, the world’s second largest economy, Japan, announced that it had officially entered a period of recession. A drop in GDP of  0.1% in the second quarter marked the first recessionary phase for the Japanese economy since 2001, when the country was feeling the after effects of the dot-com bubble in the [...]