“…1 shows, in March 2011, the export value experienced a significant decline, returning to the January 2011 level. The regular drops in January/ February have been attributed to the long Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) holiday (Liu, Pannell, and Liu 2009). In the months following the TEQ, export volume exhibits a clear downward trend, falling to 1.0 trillion yen in December 2011 and 0.9 trillion yen in December 2012: lower than the comparable pre-GEC periods in 2006 and 2007, and in fact even lower than the value recorded immediately post-GEC in 2010.…”