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Industrial Production (Feb.)

Japanese industrial output edged up in February, but will have collapsed in March. Production could easily fall by 10% in just one month in the wake of the Tohoku-Pacific Ocean earthquake, which alone would knock around 0.6 percentage points from GDP.

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