You are way off. Japan has a trade surplus every year with USA each year and a trade surplus with all it's other trade partners lumped together
BBC News | The Economy | Record trade surplus for Japan
| Japan reports a record trade surplus for 1998, leading to fears of growing trade tensions with the rest of the world. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/the_economy/262374.stm - 22k - |
BBC NEWS | Business | Japan's trade surplus grows
Japan's annual trade surplus grew by 7.3% in July, as brisk exports to Asia offset sluggish demand in the United States, official figures say.
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Trade Surplus - Explore Japan - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
| From around the middle of the 1970s, Japan began to develop chronic trade surpluses as exports outstripped imports. The trade surplus, which reached its ... web-japan.org/kidsweb/japan/economy/q3.html - 4k - |
Do you understand the difference between external debt and a trade surplus? I think we've found an important part of your misunderstanding.
Please do not use facts, we only need emotional outbursts here :)
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