April 12, the Japanese Machine Tool Industry Association (JMTBA) announced initial orders for the machine data, March 2011, the Japanese machine tool orders amounted to 113.365 billion yen, the 112.57 billion yen the previous month increased slightly by 0.6% than in March 2010 increased by 49.5%. The amount of Japanese machine tool orders have been presented for 16 consecutive months of growth, and a breakthrough for 3 months billion yen. From domestic and foreign demands, in March 2011, Japan machine tool orders amounted to 31.953 billion yen, a decline of 14.6%, grew 65.7% year on year; overseas machine tool orders amounted to 81.412 billion yen, growth of 7.6% year on year growth of 43.9%. JMTBA said that despite the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan, but not a large number of machine tools and machine tool orders were canceled by the serious damage to plant equipment reported.

    1 March 2011, the Japanese machine tool orders for the cumulative amount of 330.594 billion yen, compared with growth of 68.9% over the same period in 2010. Among them, the Japanese machine tool orders for the domestic accumulation of 100.567 billion yen, an increase of 84.2%; cumulative overseas orders to 230.027 billion yen, an increase of 63%.