Korea lies to the west of Japan.

韩国在日本以西。

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I was born in Japan, but I've lived in the West for some years now.

我出生在日本，但已在西方居住了一些年了。

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Today it exceeds any country but Japan, where industrial employees log 2,155 hours a year, compared with 1,951 in the US, and 1,603 in the former West Germany.

如今，它已超过了除日本以外的任何国家。日本的工业员工每年工作2155小时，而美国的这一数据为1951小时，前西德为1603小时。

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The western part is west of the Hawaiian Islands and east of Japan.

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Amunugama,who is also the deputy finance minister, says the United States and the West have been supplanted as the primary aid donors by India, China,Japan,Iran and Arab countries, including Libya.

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Japan needed to create its own economic sphere after the West blockaded Japan.

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