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Productivity incentives: after a decade of decline in Japanese industrial performance, reforms are now being implemented that promise to raise the long-term prospects for growth. Nagaoka Sadao examines the reform trends. (Essay).(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
Look Japan; 2/1/2002; Sadao, Nagaoka; 1910 words
; ... Germany 2.6% 2.2% 1.9% U.K. 3.0% 2.1% 1.6% France 3.3% 2.1% 1.9% Note: Per year; German figures during the 1980s are for West Germany. Source: OECD NAGAOKA Sadao is a professor in the Institute of Innovation Research at Hitotsubashi University.
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Existing, potential wet AMD treatments focus of 2007
Ophthalmology Times; 12/15/2007; Charters, Lynda; 4205 words
; ... Hughes, MD, Wen Liu, MD, PhD, and Taiji Nagaoka, MD The focus for retinal specialists ... patients with RVO, according to Taiji Nagaoka, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, Asahikawa ... the retinal circulation is reached, Dr. Nagaoka said. Clinical trials Several ongoing ...
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Tokyo LDP lawmaker found hanged at home.
Yomiuri Shimbun (Toyko, Japan); 8/1/2005; 351 words
; ... Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Yoji Nagaoka was found hanged at his home in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, on Monday, police said. Nagaoka's wife found the 54-year-old House of ... Police Department said. The MPD suspects Nagaoka committed suicide, and is investigating ...
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Sister of rescued boy pronounced dead
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin; 10/29/2004; 434 words
; NAGAOKA, Japan - Mayu Minagawa, the 3-year-old girl found trapped in a minivan buried in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, was pronounced dead Thursday. The news came a day after the miraculous rescue of her brother ... disaster could occur. Her brother was recovering Thursday at Nagaoka Red Cross Hospital ...
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Former member recounts Aum's control: Former member recounts Aum's control.
Japan Times (Tokyo, Japan); 9/17/2006; 1442 words
; ... Asahara's close aides. Using the information Nagaoka obtained from the detective agency, he tried ... convince his son that Asahara was an impostor. Nagaoka's anti-Aum activities prompted cultists to ... pouring VX gas on his neck on Jan. 4, 1995. Nagaoka recovered but still suffers from the ...
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Sister of rescued boy pronounced dead.
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 10/29/2004; 460 words
; NAGAOKA, Japan _ Mayu Minagawa, the 3-year-old girl found trapped in a minivan buried in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, was pronounced dead Thursday. The news came a day after the miraculous rescue of her brother ... disaster could occur. Her brother was recovering Thursday at Nagaoka Red Cross Hospital ...
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Hokuetsu Bank in unison with Hokuetsu Paper to reject Oji's bid.
Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan); 8/11/2006; 329 words
; Aug. 11--NAGAOKA -- Hokuetsu Bank will not ... promised during their meeting in Nagaoka that the bank would reject ... industry. Miwa also visited the Nagaoka Chamber of Commerce and Industry ... Prefecture. It started in Nagaoka in 1907, and the city is ... the cities of Niigata and Nagaoka. To see ...
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In Japan
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 9/16/2001; VALERIE REITMAN; 1094 words
; ... September 16, 2001 Muroto, Japan -- Tomohisa Nagaoka spent more than two decades sailing from ... whales. By the time he stopped in 1975, Nagaoka had harpooned nearly 4,000 of them. The ... Japan's southwestern island of Shikoku. Nagaoka is still awed each time he comes across ...
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Emergency workers struggle to get aid to quake-ravaged northern Japan as aftershocks rumble
Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 10/25/2004; Eric Talmadge Associated Press; 840 words
; NAGAOKA, Japan -- Emergency workers struggled to rush food and ... needed to brave near-freezing nighttime temperatures. In Nagaoka, the largest city in the quake zone, homeless residents ... with their belongings to seek shelter. The area, next to Nagaoka, was one of the worst-hit spots. Bulldozers worked to ...
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Assessing the role of climate change and human predation on marine resources at the Fatu-ma-Futi site, Tutuila Island, American Samoa: an agent based model.(Report)
Archaeology in Oceania; 4/1/2008; Morrison, Alex E. Addison, David J.; 9570 words
; ... general) are not well documented (but see Nagaoka 1993 for an exception). However, recent ... Cannon 2003; Morrison and Hunt 2007; Nagaoka 2001, 2002; Wolverton 2001). These models ... Butler 2001; Morrison and Hunt 2007; Nagaoka 2001, 2002), resource depression is generally ...
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