By Takuya Sumikawa
The Asahi Shimbun

NAGASU, Kumamoto Prefecture--Looking over his bustling shipyard, Masafumi Fukumaru muses over how the tide has changed.

In the distance, a newly built large tanker is departing on a trial voyage while rivets are being hammered into the steel plates of another being built nearby.

"It's quite a difference from the days when we were in constant fear that orders would dry up," says the director of Universal Shipbuilding Corp.'s Ariake Shipyard ......
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