Osamu Katano
Osamu Katano
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A strategic shift to value-added products and the past sweeping restructuring efforts have helped improve the profit-generating capacity at Japanese firms, allowing them to easily absorb such negative factors as rises in crude oil prices and increases in personnel cost.
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The latest survey confirms the solid nature of corporate activity and provides hard evidence that the Japanese economy continues to grow modestly, after having emerged from a soft period.
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Today's data confirmed the continued upsurge in Chinese demand, which had slowed during late 2004 and early 2005, as well as firm demand in the US, so Japanese exports are most likely to maintain brisk gains in the near term.