On Sunday his songs topped Apple's iTunes download charts in every country except Japan.
And some countries, in fact all countries except Japan, have lower tax rates than the US on corporate profits.
This is the most negative assessment in any country surveyed except Japan.
It provides support for arguments by U.S. companies that they face a competitive disadvantage in the U.S. marketplace, since most non-U.S. multinationals except Japan already have lower taxes before the added bonus of an effective tax rate reduction when they establish an American subsidiary.
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Although some of its rivals, notably Volkswagen of Germany and Hyundai of South Korea, have come through the terrible past year relatively unscathed, Toyota's market-share has either fallen or been flat in every region in which it operates except Japan a market that was shrinking well before the crisis struck.
The U.S. has the highest corporate tax rate in the industrial world, except for Japan's.
Except in Japan, Yahoo established its international properties on its own, forgoing partnerships in order to keep control.
Tracking worldwide sales of Halo 4 is simpler: Except for Japan, the game was released across the globe on November 6.
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Yet, growth was registered at all host countries except for Japan.
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In a sign of Nissan Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn's confidence in Mr. Dodge, he is in charge of all regions globally except China and Japan.
The revenue generated by Fortune 500 companies founded by immigrants or children of immigrants is greater than the GDP of every country in the world outside the U.S., except China and Japan.
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And it has also proven popular with denizens of nations where few individuals own guns at all, like England (except shotguns) and Japan.
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Among the bright spots: advertising markets in developing countries (everywhere except North America, Western Europe and Japan), where 7.8% and 9.8% growth is expected for 2010 and 2011, respectively.
The international limits were set for very good reasons, lowering them makes no sense except to further hurt farmers and consumers in Japan.
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But except for the relative few who caught wind earlier this year of the Japan 2022 Bid Committee promotion video and the interviews around it, there was astonishment over the technology itself.
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Except if borrowers were truly fearful the UK (US, France, Austria, Japan, etc.) were really a wretched place to park funds, 10-year benchmark rates would decidedly not be south of 3%.
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