That's partly what motivates Bix, a bespectacled, bicycle-riding grandfather who teaches at Tokyo's prestigious Hitotsubashi University.

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"Changing things means criticizing what you've done so far, " says Iwao Nakatani, a professor of commerce at Hitotsubashi University.

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The first of these new graduate business schools will open as soon as next year, at the prestigious Hitotsubashi University.

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"Many men are incapable of relating to adult women on an equal stance, " says Yukihiro Murase, a professor of human sexuality at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University.

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In this detailed and compelling account of the context and personalities that shaped the emperor's career, Herbert Bix, a Harvard historian now teaching at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, argues for the second, darker view.

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Most remarkably, Mikitani, a graduate of Hitotsubashi University whose first job was with Industrial Bank of Japan (now Mizuho Bank) that sent him to Harvard for an MBA in 1993, has been driving his company to realize his global business vision.

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