During the halcyon years of Japanese expansion in the 1970s, the yen sometimes traded as low as 300 to the dollar.

上世纪70年代，适逢日本平稳扩张期，日元曾一度低至300日元兑1美元。

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Indeed, over the past year both Japanese firms have made international expansion the cornerstone of their strategy.

的确，在过去几年里这两家日本公司都把海外扩张作为公司战略的基石。

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Q: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said that China's military expansion and naval manoeuvre posed a threat to Japan's security. What is your comment?

问：日本首相野田佳彦称，中国的军力扩张和海军动向对日本安全构成威胁，你对此有何评论？

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Also,it did not create ways to protect China and the islands in the South Pacific Ocean from Japanese expansion.

VOA: special.2010.12.16

This is where the Chinese are going to move faster than the Japanese because a major brake on Japanese global expansion ended up being the shortage of talented Japanese who were interested in, or linguistically able to, operate in international markets.

WSJ: Managing in Asia: China Eyed as Next Educational Frontier; John A. Quelch: China Europe International Business School

Mitsui joined other Japanese companies in a buying binge of U.S. real estate during the 1980s, which was fueled by a rapidly expanding home economy and global expansion of Japanese business.

WSJ: Mitsui Fudosan Has

On Thursday, the Japanese central bank announced a massive expansion to the country's money supply, on a scale that has caught everyone by surprise.

BBC: Japan's latest stimulus: What it means and will it work?