A man walks through Japanese vehicles parked before being loaded onto a cargo ship at a port in Yokohama near Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, June 11, 2009. Japan's economy shrank at a 14.2 percent annual pace in the first quarter _ better than first thought, but still the worst quarterly contraction ever for the world's second-largest economy. A preliminary report last month had said gross domestic product declined at a 15.2 percent pace. The slight improvement in the revision released Thursday does nothing to change the reality that Japan's economy is in its steepest recession since the end of World War II. AP Photo logo AP Photo 32 months ago

A man walks through Japanese vehicles parked before being loaded onto a cargo ship at a port in Yokohama near Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, June 11, 2009. Japan's economy shrank at a 14.2 percent annual pace in the first quarter _ better than first thought, but still the worst quarterly contraction ever for the world's second-largest economy. A preliminary report last month had said gross domestic product declined at a 15.2 percent pace. The slight improvement in the revision released Thursday does nothing to change the reality that Japan's economy is in its steepest recession since the end of World War II.

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