Moji Customs announced that exports in 2009 from the Kyushu economic sphere, which includes Okinawa and Yamaguchi Prefectures, fell to 5.5661 trillion yen in value terms, which was a 31.3% decline. That was the first decline in eight years and is the largest single-year decline since the Plaza Accord of 1986 caused a sharp appreciation of the yen. Meanwhile, imports fell for the first time in seven years to 5.3347 trillion yen, a 42.5% year-on-year plunge. It was the second-largest decline on record.
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