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Japan's Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Kaoru Yosano answers questions at a press conference in Tokyo on February 16, 2009
Monday, Feb. 16, 2009

Open quoteThis is the worst economic crisis in the post-war era. There is no doubt about it.Close quote

  • KAORU YOSANO,
  • Japan's Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister, after Tokyo announced that GNP fell by 3.3% in the last quarter of 2008, the nation's worst figures since the 1970s
Photo: Toru Yamanaka / AFP / Getty Images | Source: BBC