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The industries of both countries face higher costs for imported chip-making equipment, which comes mostly from Japan and represents the lion's share of a chip maker's costs.
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One study, by John Hoeve and Mark Jacobson at Stanford University estimated there could be 130 additional cancer deaths, mostly in Japan, as a result of the radiation.
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These would be shipped not to Europe but mostly to Japan--blocked by Beijing from direct trade with China--where they would be exchanged for the silver that was worth as much as gold to the Chinese.
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