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Video: Gloom grips Japanese exports

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 Japanese export markets hit by global economic downturn 
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Japan’s economy is heavily reliant on exports, but as the yen strengthens against the dollar it is getting harder to shift the goods.

Exporters are facing a slowdown in trade amid the global credit crunch and are having to examine other markets in order to return profits.

Al Jazeera’s Marga Ortigas reports from Yokohama.

 
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