robust China demand
Japan's trade surplus in September widened 4.8 percent from a year earlier to 1.1 trillion yen (10 billion dollars), supported by robust demand for hi-tech products in Asia.
The September surplus marked the third consecutive month of expansion as exports grew 9.2 percent to 4.86 trillion yen and imports were up 10.5 percent to 3.76 trillion yen, the finance ministry said in a statement Thursday.
�AFP Business/Yahoo 10.23.03

Ω{It's a small thing, really, in the context of all that's happening now, but the distinction is important to me and many others who came up during the "60's". It's all individual stories, but overall the best and brightest of that generation were turned away from the American opportunities that were so plentiful then. Rather than a field of possibility, many of us were presented with what looked like a choice between craven surrender and collaboration, or withdrawal. The men and women who would have been designing American cars and running American business alongside their less-gifted, and less valiant, brothers and sisters, are missing.
I'm sincere when I say it's a small thing now, the lives that were altered aren't, and the sad confused dreamless America that resulted isn't, but the greater context makes it so.}