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Moreover, services are the fastest growing sector, outperforming manufacturing. The service sector covers many diverse activities. Wholesale and retail trade was dominant, but advertising, data processing, publishing, tourism, leisure industries, entertainment, and other industries grew rapidly in the 1980s. Most service industries were small ...
China is now Japan's largest export market, surpassing the U.S. despite a drop in overall trade, according to recent figures from the Japan External Trade Organization. Japan's exports to China fell 25.3% during the first half of 2009 to $46.5 billion, but due to a steeper drop in shipments to the U.S., China became Japan's largest trade ...
Japan Federation of Medical Workers' Unions: Nihoniroren: 1957: 154,379 Japan Federation of National Public Service Employees' Unions: Kokkororen: 1975: 60,454 Japan Federation of Prefectural and Municipal Workers' Unions: Jichiroren: 1989: 138,655 Japan Metal Manufacturing, Information and Telecommunication Workers' Union: JMITU: 2016: 5,397
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Japan suffered a trade deficit last month as exports sank for the first time in more than two years, dragged down by a slowdown overseas. Japan’s trade deficit totaled 78.7 billion yen ($539 ...
The following is a list of the 15 largest trading partners of Japan. These figures do not include services or foreign direct investment, but only trade in goods . The fifteen largest Japanese trading partners with their total trade (sum of imports and exports) in billions of US dollars for calendar year 2021 are as follows: [ 1 ]
Japan's computer industry developed with extraordinary speed and moved into international markets. Japanese computer technologies are some of the most advanced in the world. The leading computer main frame manufacturers in Japan at the end of the 1980s (in the domestic market) were Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, IBM Japan and Unisys.
Image source: Getty Images. A small-sounding rate hike had a big effect on exchange rates. The yen reacted almost immediately to the rate hike, rising to about 150 to the U.S. dollar from about ...