"Asset management is going to be tough, " said Katsuhiko Oka, senior vice president at Sony Life Insurance Co.

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Set up by the Conservatives following the 1990 Oka conflict, the commission reported to a Liberal government in 1996.

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"It would be unfair to brand people who have different opinions from the government as leftist and anti-establishment, " says Legislator Oka Mahendra.

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In his book, How to Wrap Five Eggs, graphic designer Hideyuki Oka uses black and white photographs to illustrate the beauty of natural packaging.

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One concern for large institutional investors like Mr. Oka buyers of government debt with some of the longest maturities is that market participants such as banks, who usually buy mostly short- and medium-term government debt, could start buying longer bonds too.

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Since 1990 some of the fiercest confrontations have been over an oil development near Lubicon Lake, Alberta, a golf course expansion at Oka, Quebec, a provincial park in Ipperwash, Ontario, a ski resort at Sun Peaks, British Columbia, and military flights over Labrador.

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