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Negative quarter or two due to the initial adverse impact from the losses and shock from the tsunami on the Japanese economy. Japan GDP should shrink for a quarter or two but it will recover as it rebuilds. 

Huge test for a fully integrated global economy that tends to over react to every single world event. Share markets worldwide should fall for a quarter but rally in second half of the year as the global economy recovers.