From China to India, from Japan to Germany, nations everywhere are racing to develop new ways to producing and use energy.
But analysts also pointed to recent data from China and Germany, and Japan's pledge to stimulate its economy, as helping to propel shares upwards.
The answer lies in its plant for reprocessing spent fuel, built partly to take used fuel from Germany and Japan (which largely paid for its construction) and partly to produce the plutonium that was once expected to be needed as fuel for fast-breeder reactors, in Britain and elsewhere.
Record inflows mean silver-backed ETF trusts now hold record volumes of metal, both in Europe and the US. Precious-metal dealers from Germany to India to Japan report a surge in demand.
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Panic grips the markets, spreading outward from one global capital and then back inward in a spiraling oscillation of fear and greed and fear again that roams from New York to London to Germany to Japan and back to New York again, whether through Moscow or Calgary or Milan.
The old line was that high-quality cars came almost exclusively from Germany and Japan, and you had to pay for the privilege of the "right" nation of origin.
The framework on which this is all hung is a historical look at the expansion of surfing from its roots in Hawaii, and exactly how and why it spread to certain sometimes bizarre places, always eliciting passion along the way, like river surfing from dam generated waves in Germany to Cuba, Japan and the Middle East.
Last year two plants (one belonging to GM in Germany, the other to Nissan in Japan) began to buy their drivelines from GKN.
Even in making machine-tools, it defers only to the United States, Japan and Germany, and engineering graduates from Turin and Milan are world-class.
World War II-devastated nations from Europe to Asia returned to prosperity, with the defeated ravaged nations of Germany and Japan becoming economic superpowers.
Data from Germany was especially unsettling to traders, along with some downbeat numbers out of Japan also on GDP.
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Germany is among more than two dozen industrialized countries -- from Australia to Slovenia to Japan -- that require employers to offer four weeks or more of paid vacation to their workers, according to a 2009 study by the human resources consulting company Mercer.
The largest declines were 12 percentage points in Japan and Germany, while the U.S. effective rate over that period fell from 25% in 1999 to 20% in 2009, according to studies by the OECD.
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It was formally in occupation in West Germany and Japan, and it was the de facto power in a variety of places from Dutch Indonesia to the Belgian Congo, from most of Latin America to much of Indochina.
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