Japan's export growth hit by strains in China
Raises possibility of additional monetary easing by the BOJ; exports to China falls 4.6 per cent in August
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JAPAN'S exports slowed for a second straight month in August in a worrying sign that China's economic slowdown could deal a damaging blow to the world's third-biggest economy and force policymakers to inject fresh stimulus before too long.
The data joins a string of depressing shipment numbers in key regional economies - including South Korea and Taiwan - which has heightened anxiety over a China-led slowdown in global growth and tempered bets of the US Federal Reserve lifting rates for the first time in almost a decade later on Thursday.
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