Trends of Japan's Trade Surplus
(comparison with previous year)

	1993	1994	1995	1996	Balance of Payments Statictics. Unit: hundred million Yen Figures of 1996 are preliminary. (Source: The Bank of Japan)
Jan	8,442	8,852	4,963	2,846
Feb	14,922	13,589	12,976	8,987
Mar	17,735	16,532	14,743	13,694
Apr	13,121	13,566	10,921	5,591
May	10,509	8,535	7,588
Jun	12,388	13,533	11,548
Jul	14,533	13,753	9,923
Aug	9,364	8,356	7,853
Sep	15,186	13,873	13,363
Oct	13,340	11,100	7,579
Nov	9,562	10,503	8,903
Dec	15,714	15,130	13,085