Hundreds of Western expatriate IT managers and families moved to Japan (impacting the expat housing market and schools simultaneously).

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She started sampling jazz and hip-hop at 18 in her native Japan and moved to the U.S. five years ago for more technical training in modern dance and ballet.

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Issey Nakajima-Farran, who can play either on the wing or up front, came through the youth ranks at Crystal Palace before the 24-year-old Canada international moved to Japan and first arrived in the Danish Superliga with Vejle Boldklub in 2006.

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"We moved production outside of Japan and it's not going to come back, " he said.

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And, in light of the natural disasters suffered in Japan, FNO was moved to the first weekend in November there.

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The structure of industry in Japan has changed as Japanese companies have moved production to Europe, America and South-East Asia.

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Charities have moved quickly to establish mobile donation campaigns to help the victims of the earthquake and ensuing tsunami that devastated Japan early Friday morning.

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The Nikkei in Japan rallied 1.4% to 9, 086 and the Hang Seng in China moved up 3.3% to 20, 260.

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Unlike Japan in the 1990s, the U.S. and U.K. moved quickly to address problems in their banks but Spain, Greece and certain other eurozone governments did not.

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He said a big factor was that only a month before Japan had moved their currency dramatically, and a lot of people borrowed in the Japanese yen to invest in various commodities and instruments.

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