Japanese stocks are up strongly early in the Asian trading session.
The Nikkei is up a solid 1.0 percent.
For a moment, the Nikkei even passed 11,500. According to Dow Jones, this is the first time the Nikkei touched this level since September 2008.
This comes after a January trade report that showed a bigger-than-expected jump in exports.
Here's the intraday chart from Bloomberg:
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