20110521 Follow Me 11

6,6 个人感觉还是这种形式好，lz辛苦啦~
It is no doubt that the devastating earthquzke and  tsunami will make a decline in all aspects especially  in economy, not only to Japan, even any country that suffers this catastrophe  which could cause  temporary loss but  not deadly, As the report said , gross domestic product of the first -quarter has declined 0.9 percent in Japan,  though nearly twice the decline expected, but to be justice and objective ,  i still believe the old saying" Tough get Going", ecpecially in a nation like Japan, The recovery will soon come.

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This time the earthquake rocks Japan. There is no doubt that the 3.11 earthquake will impose a negative impact on Japan for at least 1 year. Compares with previous quarter, the GDP is dropped by 0.9 percent, that is pretty big. Shortly after the earthquake, the DC/DV market is witnessed with a surging price, for example the Nikkon D 7000 is priced over 10,000 RMB in the following month. But not long after, things are suddenly turn to normal. Thus here we may doubt our prevous estimate about Japan is too serious to the real situation. Japan, with its edge in sophiticated mechanics industry, shall go through this process and reborn.

Well, guess as human being, even a feud foe, may stand together and show sympathy in the face of natural diaster or catastrophy. It's in the nature of a human being.~~~   10# bengdi1986

9/9 今天来加班。。唉

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俺的翻译：）

Disaster takes toll on Japan’s economy

Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami pushed the economy much further into recession than expected, raising doubts about the prospects for the world’s third-largest economy.

According to preliminary data released on Thursday, gross domestic product fell 0.9 per cent in the first quarter of this year compared with the previous three months. That was nearly twice the decline forecast by economists.

Kaoru Yosano, minister for economics and fiscal policy, said that the March 11 disaster had been the main reason for the fall in output, and insisted that growth would soon return. “The Japanese economy has a great deal of resiliency,” Mr Yosano said.

However, the extent of the first-quarter fall – equivalent to a 3.7 per cent decline on an annualised basis – underscores the scale of the disruption caused by the natural disaster and resulting nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

Japan’s economy has now contracted for two quarters in a row, meeting the most widely used definition of a recession.

Government statisticians now say that output fell 0.8 per cent quarter-on-quarter in the last three months of 2010, a much sharper decline than the 0.3 per cent initially estimated. Preliminary estimates of Japanese GDP growth are often dramatically revised as more accurate data becomes available.

Frederic Neumann, economist at HSBC Global Research, said the fourth quarter revision suggested that even before the March 11 disaster, the economy’s underlying momentum “wasn’t as robust as widely thought”.

“The ground is slipping,” Mr Neumann wrote in a report.

However, Japan has seen some signs of recovery. The Reuters Tankan survey – a monthly measure of business sentiment modelled on the Bank of Japan’s own Tankan report – this week showed that the mood among manufacturers was improving.
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灾难让日本经济付出代价

日本毁灭性的地震和海啸将经济推入远超预期的低谷之中，从而让人产生了对这一世界第三大经济体未来前景的担忧。

通过周四的初始数据显示，今年一季度GDP比起之前的三个月降低了0.9个百分点。这几乎是之前经济学家预测下降幅度的两倍。

谢野馨，经济财政大臣，说3.11号的灾难是产出下降的主因，并且坚信经济复苏将迅速回归。“日本经济具有极大的弹性。”谢野馨先生说到。

然而，第一季度经济下滑的扩大——相当于年基础利率3.7个百分点的下降——强化了由于自然灾害和其所引起的福岛核事故所产生的破坏规模。

日本的经济已经连续两个季度持续萎缩，符合最为广泛的衰退的定义。

gov的统计学家本季度环比2010年最后的三个月下降0.8个百分点，较之前预测的总共0.3个百分点的下降大的多。初步估计日本GDP增长大幅修改为更准确的数据的情况将出现。

Frederic Neumann，汇丰银行全球研究所的经济学家，谈到四季度的下降，认为即使是在3.11号的灾难以前，经济的增长潜力“也没有外界广泛想象的那么强劲”。

“地面在渐渐松弛，”Neuman先生在一份报告中这样写到。

然而，日本已经显现出来一些复苏迹象。路透财经短观调查——一份仿效日本央行短观调查的每月衡量商业景气报告——本周显示制造业的情绪在上升中。

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We cannot get more information about why Japan is still in recession now, but what we can figure out is that this recession is not just caused by the March 11 disaster. Before the earthquake and the tsunami, Japan's underlying momentum “wasn’t as robust as widely thought”. Why can't Japan recover from the deep economic depression even after 30 years, which China who is in a similar ground of the former Japan should pay full attention to.

11.11  follow with interesting...

日本震后衰退程度超预期 [对照版]
Disaster takes toll on Japan’s economy
来源：FT中文网    2011-05-20
       Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami pushed the economy much further into recession than expected, raising doubts about the prospects for the world’s third-largest economy.        
       日本毁灭性的地震与海啸将日本经济推入了比预期更深的衰退，引发了对世界第三大经济体前景的疑虑。

        According to preliminary data released on Thursday, gross domestic product fell 0.9 per cent in the first quarter of this year compared with the previous three months. That was nearly twice the decline forecast by economists.   
       根据周四发布的初步数据，今年第一季度日本国内生产总值(GDP)环比下降0.9%，几乎是经济学家预测的降幅的两倍。
  
        Kaoru Yosano, minister for economics and fiscal policy, said that the March 11 disaster had been the main reason for the fall in output, and insisted that growth would soon return. “The Japanese economy has a great deal of resiliency,” Mr Yosano said.  
        日本经济财政大臣与谢野馨(Kaoru Yosano)表示，3月11日的灾难是经济产出下降的主要原因，并坚称日本很快就会恢复增长。“日本经济具有很大的弹性，”与谢野馨说道。  

        However, the extent of the first-quarter fall – equivalent to a 3.7 per cent decline on an annualised basis – underscores the scale of the disruption caused by the natural disaster and resulting nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
        然而，第一季度的下降幅度——折合成年率相当于3.7%的降幅——突显出那场自然灾害及其在福岛第一核电站(Fukushima Daiichi)引发的核危机造成的破坏有多大。

        Japan’s economy has now contracted for two quarters in a row, meeting the most widely used definition of a recession. Government statisticians now say that output fell 0.8 per cent quarter-on-quarter in the last three months of 2010, a much sharper decline than the 0.3 per cent initially estimated. Preliminary estimates of Japanese GDP growth are often dramatically revised as more accurate data becomes available.  
        日本经济如今已连续两个季度出现萎缩，符合使用得最为广泛的衰退定义。**统计学家现在表示，2010年第四季度的GDP环比降幅为0.8%，远远高于最初估算的0.3%。日本GDP增幅的初步估算数据经常会在更准确的数据出现后得到大幅修正。
  
        Frederic Neumann, economist at HSBC Global Research, said the fourth quarter revision suggested that even before the March 11 disaster, the economy’s underlying momentum “wasn’t as robust as widely thought”.  

        汇丰全球研究部门(HSBC Global Research)的经济学家范力民(Frederic Neumann)表示，去年第四季度的修正数据表明，即便是在3月11日的灾难发生之前，日本经济的潜在发展势头“就已经不如普遍预期的那么强健”。  

        “The ground is slipping,” Mr Neumann wrote in a report.   
       “经济基础正在恶化，”范力民在一份报告中写道。  

        However, Japan has seen some signs of recovery. The Reuters Tankan survey – a monthly measure of business sentiment modelled on the Bank of Japan’s own Tankan report – this week showed that the mood among manufacturers was improving.
         不过，日本也出现了一些经济复苏的迹象。路透社本周发布的月度短观调查(Reuters Tankan)——以日本央行(BoJ)的短观调查为模型的一项月度商业景气指数——显示，制造商的情绪正在改善。

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Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami bring some impact, not only to Japan itself, but also to the international economy had a huge impact. Now from the March 11 disaster has been for some time, the Japanese economy is recovering, "The Japanese economy has a great deal of resiliency
",  Mr Yosano said in the paper, it's  look out Japan's economic recovery in the hope ~