Chinese workers load cargo at a port in Lianyungang in east China's Jiangsu province on September 8, 2016. China's imports rose 1.5 percent year-on-year in August, figures showed Thursday, the first increase in nearly two years, in a positive sign for the world's second-largest economy. / AFP PHOTO / STR / China OUTSTR/AFP/Getty Images

Chinese workers load steel pipes at a port in Lianyungang in east China's Jiangsu province on September 8, 2016. China's imports rose 1.5 percent year-on-year in August, figures showed Thursday, the first increase in nearly two years, in a positive sign for the world's second-largest economy. / AFP PHOTO / STR / China OUTSTR/AFP/Getty Images

This picture shows a construction site in Tokyo on September 8, 2016. Japan's economy barely grew in the April-June quarter, revised data showed September 8, supplying the latest failing report card for the prime minister's policy blitz. / AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGIKAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images

This picture shows a construction site in Tokyo on September 8, 2016. Japan's economy barely grew in the April-June quarter, revised data showed September 8, supplying the latest failing report card for the prime minister's policy blitz. / AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGIKAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images

This picture shows a construction site in Tokyo on September 8, 2016. Japan's economy barely grew in the April-June quarter, revised data showed September 8, supplying the latest failing report card for the prime minister's policy blitz. / AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGIKAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images

This picture shows an international container pier at the port in Tokyo on July 25, 2016. Japan's economy barely grew in the April-June quarter, revised data showed September 8, supplying the latest failing report card for the prime minister's policy blitz. / AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGIKAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images

This picture shows an international container pier at the port in Tokyo on July 25, 2016. Japan's economy barely grew in the April-June quarter, revised data showed September 8, supplying the latest failing report card for the prime minister's policy blitz. / AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGIKAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY FIACHRA GIBBONS (FILES) This file photo taken on June 10, 2016 shows Ireland's writer Dermot Bolger posing in Paris. When Irish novelist Dermot Bolger began writing his highly-praised novel "Tanglewood", the booming Celtic Tiger economy was still roaring its loudest. But the sudden riches were to prove illusory and the wealth "was very bad for Irish writing." / AFP PHOTO / PATRICK KOVARIKPATRICK KOVARIK/AFP/Getty Images