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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Koichi Nakano of Sophia University in Tokyo points out that Japan's distorted electoral map exaggerates the size of the defeat: the DPJ lost heavily against LDP candidates in depopulated rural areas that are considered to be the opposition's heartland, but which produce a disproportionate number of seats.
Alex Kinmont, an investment analyst for Morgan Stanley, points out that the domestic overcapacity in Japan's car market is equivalent to Britain's total car production.
Hershkowitz points out that economic incentives in places like Japan and Europe are different.
He points to the way the Nikkei average in Japan rallied over 70% 5 times over the past two decades and then speedily retraced its ascent.
Shadrin netted in the 54th minute as Japan slumped to their second defeat in the section to leave them six points adrift of Uzbekistan in the final standings.
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Since the end of 2000 short-term rates have been cut more than five percentage points in the U.S.--compare that with two points in the Eurozone (and in the U.K.) and only a quarter-point in Japan.
Brazil in the 1990s, Japan at various points over the past 10 years.
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Hamilton's victory at the Belgian Grand Prix on 29 August left Vettel slip 31 points off the top but he battled back with victories in Japan, Brazil and then finally Abu Dhabi.
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GDP's-worth of fiscal expansion throughout the region, including China and Japan, would boost growth by two percentage points in the crisis countries.
Economic growth, though interrupted at points by political unrest in the Middle East and by a natural disaster in Japan, should not be lower this year though, matching the near 4% rate that it measured in 2010.
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The report points out that EU investment in research is lower than in the US, Japan, Brazil, Russia, India and China, despite a rise in recent years, and that there are major differences between EU member states.
In Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 159.15 points, or 1.4%, to 11, 309.13, while in Hong Kong the Hang Seng index closed down 400.74 points, or 1.7%, at 22, 906.67.
As Krugman points out, a recent article by Robert Samuelson in the Washington Post greatly garbles the Japan story.
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As Mr Bhalla points out, a dollar earned in America buys much more in Ethiopia or India than in Japan or America itself.
Giving up gains from earlier in the day, Japan's Nikkei 225 average slid by 126.55 points, or 1.5%, to 8, 109.53.
Some 20% of students graduating this month have no offers of a job, up six percentage points from last year and the highest tally since records began in 2000, in the midst of Japan's banking crisis.
Takao Tominaga, a special adviser to the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, points out that Nissan, unlike Toyota, has its headquarters in Tokyo far removed from its factories.
The Environment Agency of Japan points to the plethora of small plating shops as the country's worst offender in terms of toxic waste, followed (surprisingly) by dry-cleaners, hairdressers and public bath-houses.
The Japanese game company made announcements in Japan, the United States and Europe, each one talking about the three main points everyone has been wanting to know: when will Wii U be available, how much will it cost, and what games can I play on it?
He points to the resolute measures of the new government in Britain to rein in government spending as an example for Japan.
Indeed, as Jeffrey Kingston of America's Temple University in Tokyo points out, Akihito has taken other actions to distance the monarchy from nationalists keen to refashion Japan's identity around the throne.
In the day's other match, Japan and USA drew 0-0 to earn their first points.
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John Richards, of the Royal Bank of Scotland in Tokyo, points out that since inflation is almost entirely due to dearer food and energy, both of which Japan imports, rather than because of rising domestic demand, it reflects an unwelcome worsening of the country's terms of trade.
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