The first results from the Bank of Japan's March Tankan survey of business conditions, released today, are not much use because we do not yet have a split between pre- and post-quake responses. The Bank will publish a breakdown on Monday. But today's report does show that, even though some of the headline numbers improved, the recovery was fragile.
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