The Tokyo stock market is shifting attention to corporate earnings projections to be made public shortly.
The recent government report on industrial output for February and the Bank of Japan's quarterly "tankan" business sentiment survey were real letdowns.
They offered little evidence of solid economic recovery, only indicating that the economy is about to hit bottom.
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