Canadian Solar said module shipments to the Asian nation in the January-Marchperiod were 76% up on the final quarter of 2012.

Japan swallowed 24.5% of the total 340MW of shipments the companynotched up in the quarter – a figure that came in ahead of the company’s originalguidance range of 290MW to310MW.

It expectsto shift between 380MW and 420MW in the current second quarter – with Japan accountingfor 35%-40% of that total.

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