Why should Japan, so far from the storm's centre, have been hit so hard?

日本离风暴中心如此之远，为何会受到如此强烈的冲击呢？

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Far from his world of packed concert halls and glittering celebrity events, he visited communities hit hard by TB, schools and a research centre.

远离了他的音乐世界和耀眼的名人生活，他参观了遭受结核病影响严重的社区、学校和一个研究中心。

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Since 2000 they have had an especially hard time, explains Andrew Sum of Northeastern University’s Centre for Labour Market Studies (CLMS).

西北大学劳动力市场研究中心的安德鲁*萨姆讲道，2000年以来，年轻人的求职日子格外艰辛了。

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EU. Yet forging a common policy is hard, and centre-right governments may prove no better than have those of the left at balancing the benefits offered by the free movement of labour against voters' fears, often irrational, about threats to national identity.

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But it is hard to visit the centre without feeling like Charlie Bucket (or, if you lack self-restraint, Augustus Gloop).

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But Edinburgh's fortunes as a banking centre would be hard to revive.

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