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Keizo Obuchi
Keizo Obuchi , 1937-2000, Japanese politician, prime minister of Japan (1998-2000), b. Nakanojo. The son of a silk manufacturer and politician, Obuchi graduated from Waseda Univ. in 1962 and in 1963 was elected to the parliament seat once held by his late father. A member of the Liberal Democratic ... Read more
Liberal Democratic party
Liberal Democratic party (LDP), Japanese political party. It began as the conservative Liberal party, which, under Shigeru Yoshida , became the dominant political force in Japan following World War II. In 1955 the Liberals merged with the newly created Japan Democratic party. Retaining control of ... Read more
silkworm
silkworm name for the larva of various species of moths, indigenous to Asia and Africa but now domesticated and raised for silk production throughout most of the temperate zone. The culture of silkworms is called sericulture. The various species of silkworms raised today are distinguished by th... Read more
Junichiro Koizumi
Junichiro Koizumi , 1942-, Japanese political leader, b. Yokosuka. From a political family, he studied economics at Keio Univ. (grad. 1967). He entered politics in 1970 as a member of the Liberal Democratic party (LDP), and two years later was elected to the Diet. Koizumi served as minister of hea... Read more
Federated States of Micronesia
Federated States of Micronesia independent nation (2005 est. pop. 108,000), c.271 sq mi (702 sq km), an island group in the W Pacific Ocean. It comprises four states: Kosrae, Pohnpei (formerly Ponape), Chuuk (formerly Truk), and Yap . The capital, Palikir, is on the island of Pohnpei. The popu... Read more
Dame Muriel Spark
Dame Muriel Spark 1918-2006, Scottish novelist, b. Muriel Sarah Camberg. She lived in Edinburgh, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), London, New York, and Rome, and spent her last years in Tuscany. Spark's typically short, spare, and witty novels expose the pretensions, hypocrisies, and petty foibles of her c... Read more
Gouverneur Morris
Gouverneur Morris , 1752-1816, American political leader and diplomat, b. Morrisania, N.Y. (now part of the Bronx); a grandson of Lewis Morris (1671-1746), he was born to wealth and influence. He studied law and was admitted (1771) to the bar. At the outbreak of the American Revolution he adopted ... Read more
silk
silk fine, horny, translucent, yellowish fiber produced by the silkworm in making its cocoon and covered with sericin, a protein. Many varieties of silk-spinning worms and insects are known, but the silkworm of commerce is the larva of the Bombyx mori, or mulberry silkworm, and other closely rela... Read more
Japanese literature
Japanese literature literary works produced in the language of the islands of Japan . See also Asian drama . Earliest Writings Although Japanese and Chinese are different languages, the Japanese borrowed and adapted Chinese ideographs early in the 8th cent. in order to render the... Read more
Japan
Japan , Jap. Nihon or Nippon, country (2005 est. pop. 127,417,000), 145,833 sq mi (377,835 sq km), occupying an archipelago off the coast of E Asia. The capital is Tokyo , which, along with neighboring Yokohama , forms the world's most populous metropolitan region. Land Japan proper ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Mori"

Memento Mori
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying Memento Mori The Latin term memento mori has long served as a reminder of mortality. Literally meaning...and eighteenth centuries often contain two phrases: " Memento mori " and " Hora fugit, " which means, "The hour flees." These...
Yoshiri Mori
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Yoshiri Mori 1937-, Japanese politician, prime minister...the Diet in 1969. During the late 1980s Mori was implicated in an insider-trading scandal...Upon the incapacitation of Keizo Obuchi , Mori became prime minister and immediately called...
Mori Ogai
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Mori Ogai , 1862-1922, Japanese army physician, medical researcher, literary critic, novelist, translator, scholar, and playwright...
Gravestones and Other Markers
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying ...America. Based on this overview, three broad traditions emerge: memento mori markers, markers that evoke the phrase, "in memory of," and ignoratio mori markers. Memento Mori The memento mori (remember death) tradition, which began with colonization...
silkworm
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the finest silk is the larva of Bombyx mori, of Asian origin. After centuries of domestication, Bombyx mori is no longer found anywhere in a natural...disease. The common silkworm, Bombyx mori, is classified in the phylum Arthropoda...
Liberal Democratic party
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...1998. When Obuchi was incapacitated by a severe stroke in 2000, Yoshiro Mori , secretary-general of the LDP, succeeded him as prime minister, but the unpopular Mori was replaced in less than a year by Junichiro Koizumi . Koizumi was succeeded...
Ryutaro Hashimoto
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...From Dec., 2000, to Apr., 2001, he served as administrative reforms minister under Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori . In April, after Mori resigned, Hashimoto made a bid for the prime ministership but was defeated by Junichiro Koizumi , an insurgent...
silk
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...known, but the silkworm of commerce is the larva of the Bombyx mori, or mulberry silkworm, and other closely related moths. Wild...spins a coarser, flatter, yellower filament than the Bombyx mori, and the color does not boil out with the gum. Tussah silk...
Single photon emission computed tomography
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...emission, CT, and positron emission tomography in the evaluation of neurologic disease." Radiologic Clinics of North America 39, no. 5 (September 2001). Laith Farid Gulli, M.D. Alfredo Mori, M.D. Jean Suvan, B.Sc., R.D.H.
Toya Sesshu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...up the Tenkaitoga-ro studio and enjoyed the patronage of the Mori family. He spent the remainder of his life at Yamaguchi, enjoying...outstanding work, is the long scroll landscape (collection of the Mori family, Yamaguchi). Measuring more than 50 feet in length...

Dictionary entries related to "Mori"

Mori, Masayuki
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers MORI, Masayuki Nationality: Japanese. Born...Shingeki (modern theater) actor Masayuki Mori first impressed the Japanese film audience...is Waga shogai no kagayakeru hi, in which Mori played an ex-officer with whom the heroine...
MORI
Book article from: A Dictionary of Business and Management MORI Abbreviation for Market and Opinion Research International .
memento mori
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable memento mori an object serving as a warning or reminder of death, such as a skull. Recorded from the late 16th century, the Latin phrase means literally, ‘remember (that you have) to die’.
Memento mori
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Memento mori (Christian remembrance of death): see FOUR LAST THINGS .
Yoda, Yoshikata
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...hizakurige (Walking Trip of Revenge ) (Mori) 1937 Otsuru junreika (Otsuru's Pilgrim...Ninja Sasuke Sarutobi of Sekigahara ) (Mori); Akatsuki no hatakaze (Flag Wind of...Oise mairi (Pilgrimage to Ise ) (Mori); Bunbuku chagama (Badger's Tea Pot...
Miyagawa, Kazuo
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...otoko (The Man Taking Off His Gloves ) (Mori); Yari-odori gojusan-tsugi (Spear Dance of 53 Stations ) (Mori); Soushi gekijou (Political Theatre...A Line of Black Clouds ) (Matsuda and Mori) 1949 Niizuma kaigi (New Wives' Conference...
Sansho Dayu
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...screenplay: Yahiro Fuji and Yoshikata Yoda, from the novel by Ogai Mori; photography: Kazuo Miyagawa; editor: Mitsuji Miyata; sound...Yoko Kosono (Kohagi ); Chieko Naniwa (Ubatake ); Kikue Mori (Miko ); Ken Mitsuda (Morosane Fujiwara ); Masao Shimizu...
Kurosawa, Akira
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Beasts ) (Osone) (sc); Ketto Kagiya no tsuji (The Duel at Kagiya Corner ) (Mori) (sc) 1957 Tekichu odan sanbyakuri (Three Hundred Miles through Enemy Lines ) (Mori) (sc) 1960 Sengoku guntoden (The Saga of the Vagabond ) (Sugie) (sc...
Shinoda, Masahiro
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Chinmoku (Silence ) 1972 Sapporo Orimpikku (Sapporo Winter Olympic Games ) 1973 Kaseki no mori (The Petrified Forest ) 1974 Himiko 1975 Sakura no mori no mankai no shita (Under the Cherry Blossoms ) (+ co-sc) 1976 Nihon-maru (Nihon-maru...
Kyo, Machiko
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Yang Kwei-fei ) (Mizoguchi) (title role); Tojuro no koi (Mori); Shin josei mondo (Shima) 1956 Shin Heike monogatari: Yoshinaka...Onna to kaizoku (Ito); Yoru no togyo ; Jirocho Fuji (Mori); Kagi (Odd Obsession ) (Ichikawa) (as Ikuko Kenmochi...

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Mori Seiki to Acquire Dixi Machine Group
Magazine article from: Manufacturing Engineering; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; Mori Seiki Co. Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan) and the...in negotiations concerning the purchase by Mori Seiki of Dixi Machines, the division of Dixi...by January 1, 2007, according to Masahiko Mori, president of Mori Seiki. During a recent...
Mori Seiki to take over Hitachi Seiki's machine-tool business.
Magazine article from: Metalworking Insiders' Report; 9/17/2002; 700+ words ; ...Ltd. to another machine-tool builder, Mori Seiki Co., Ltd. After receiving necessary...the country's Fair Trade Commission, Mori next month will start up a new company...million. It immediately revved up talks with Mori Seiki, which had offered to sponsor its...
Mori Seiki reinvests in Japan.(Company News in Brief)
Magazine article from: Metalworking Insiders' Report; 2/21/2005; 700+ words ; ...Chinese sources for machine parts--Mori Seiki has had to reinvest in equipment...plants. Interviewed at the opening of Mori Seiki's new United Kingdom technical center (Slough, U.K.), Mori Seiki president Dr. Masahiko Mori says...
Mori's mementos of `Nirvana' // Artist creates world of hope
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/25/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...It is immediately clear which one is Mariko Mori, even if you've never seen her art. Mori, having just opened her largest solo U.S...lines, all of which describe paths that lead to Mori's stoic visage, framed by hair pulled back...
Mori Survives No-Confidence Vote
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/5/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Press Writer AP Online 03-05-2001 Mori Survives No-Confidence Vote TOKYO (AP) -- Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, beset by scandals and a stumbling Japanese...submitted by four opposition parties. Mori, whose Liberal Democrats hold a majority...
MORI'S SUCCESSOR WON'T BRING CHANGE
News Wire article from: United Press International; 4/1/2001; 700+ words ; ...United Press International 04-01-2001 Mori's successor won't bring change WASHINGTON...hapless Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori appears to be about to be dumped at last...On Saturday, a major powerbroker of Mori's ruling Liberal Democratic Party launched...
Mori, China, Puerto Rico in cashmere venture.
Magazine article from: WWD; 9/19/1986; ; 700+ words ; Mori, China, Puerto Rico in cashmere venture Hanae Mori is launching a tri-national enterprise slated, by its...China, the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and Hanae Mori International, the designer's Tokyo-based company...
Mori Seiki reworks distribution strategy.(news & analysis)
Magazine article from: Tooling & Production; 6/1/2006; 700+ words ; Mori Seiki has entered into a distribution agreement...Midwest territory, which was formerly served by Mori Seiki Mid-American Sales. This partnership will ensure the attainment of Mori Seiki's mid-term economic growth plan, Mori...
Hanae Mori's cashmere ready for fall launch. (Hanae Mori U.S.A. Inc.'s cashmere women's apparel)
Magazine article from: WWD; 4/19/1989; ; 700+ words ; HANAE MORI'S CASHMERE READY FOR FALL LAUNCH NEW YORK...full-fledged cashmere collection, Hanae Mori U.S.A., Inc., has solved its difficulties...fall selling. The division, called Hanae Mori Soft Sports, will use raw materials from...
Mori May Resign Next Week
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/6/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Associated Press Writer AP Online 03-06-2001 Mori May Resign Next Week TOKYO (AP) -- Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori has told officials in his ruling Liberal...The mass-circulation Asahi reported that Mori told party leaders he will step down next...