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... a devastating earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan is now estimated to be the world's costliest natural disaster ... and more than three hundred billion dollars ... the figure accounts for damage to roads and infrastructure but not champions based immediate threat ... and nuclear crisis after the earthquake and tsunami crippled nuclear plants ... Robert D Gerrick director Institute of contemporary Asian Studies tensely University Japan ... speaking at a piano at the Japan Society in New York City ... based costs on to some companies may ... look to the situation and sales to what we move on some of the headquarters operations of from Tucuman to Hong Kong to Singapore to other places already concerns over radiation in the third supply prompted the United States in Hong Kong today and some food imports from the area surrounding the plant ... and supply concerns prompted Sony Honda and Toyota to stop for kids and factories ... Lane closures across Japan had created global supply chain disruptions ... caused the least non resident fellow at the Institute of contemporary Asian Studies ... says energy constraints remain a risk to the economy ... if the worst-case scenario proves to be correct ... that the nuclear crisis is resolved rapidly ... of ... and demand actually does come back with supply not coming back online because it's either ... damaged or because the political ... image note Nuclear is too controversial ... and then ... it's ... dude implying that its growth plans in implants blackouts and ... brownouts will ensue ... while questions remain it is the extraordinary spirit of the Japanese people that will be crucial ... as the deal with the after effects of the disaster that has left twenty three thousand people ... dead or missing ... Jill Bennett Reuters ...