Investors have little enthusiasm for well-run old Japan firms, such as Kirin Beverage, a soft-drinks maker that has not yet found a new-Japan marketing angle.
But it has created a clear distinction in the public mind between the rebels, who want to cling to the old Japan, and Mr Koizumi's team, who represent many varieties of a new Japan.
Meantime, 32-year-old software magnate Takafumi Horie is banging at the doors of old corporate Japan.
The 16-year-old initially held serve against the 40-year-old from Japan but was broken in the seventh game of the opening set.
The old Pwc Japan (Misuzu, formerly ChuoAoyama Pricewaterhouse) calls it quits.
It would also be hugely unsettling, obliging America to review its region-stabilising troop commitments in South Korea and Japan, and rekindling old rivalries among China, Japan and Russia for influence in Korea.
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Mr Koizumi is, of course, wrestling with the old problem of Japan's muddled party politics.
LDP's shadows, and at 71 he is pretty old even by Japan's standards to be prime minister.
Reality for most old people in Japan's major cities is often much grimmer.
Mr. Abel says he is still stinging from an especially harsh beat-down at the hands of "some 12-year-old girls from Japan" in a giant-robot game called Chromehounds.
Big bang is wrecking the old solidarity among Japan's bankers, their trade association is losing its power to maintain a united front, and yucho, at last, is beginning to find willing private-sector allies.
India and China should keep trundling along. (The economic battle will be among their states and provinces.) Tackling old inefficiencies, Japan has years of gains ahead, and stubborn South Korea will find a way to overcome each obstacle it puts in its own way.
One sure way to generate support is through intensified confrontation with old political rivals like Japan.
The 30-year-old former employee at Japan Post Co. is heading to the U.K. in August to study fashion.
Their confidence, charisma and international outlook make this generation of politicians especially frustrated by the distant, elderly old coves who run Japan.
Kazuya Ito, a 31-year-old worker with the Japan-based group Peshawar-kai, was dragged from his car in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan on Tuesday, the Afghan Interior Ministry said.
While the U.S. says it is committed to defend the islands under its 50-year-old defense treaty with Japan, it has also stated that the U.S. takes no position on who ultimately controls them.
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It has prompted China's old enemy, Japan, to move its missiles around and has given Japan's new prime minister the excuse he was looking for to challenge constitutional constraints of the growth of military power.
In fact, the risks are multiplying as the main driver of welfare costs old people receiving state pensions, medical care, and nursing care is ballooning in a demographic collapse and relentlessly rising proportion of old people in which Japan is a harbinger for rest of the developed world.
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After the samurai, farmers were the most privileged group in Japan's old feudal hierarchy.
Japan's old guard worries that radical steps will precipitate an economic crisis, and so prefers the status quo.
Could anything be truer with regard to old age welfare reform in Japan (or in the U.S., for that matter)?
"So however the world turns, we have deep links to the West, Japan, and old links to China and India that we'll deepen, " Yeo said.
Brash, young, aggressive, loud and on the make, these companies ooze with the type of values that Japan's old business elite finds distasteful and dangerous.
Issey Nakajima-Farran, who can play either on the wing or up front, came through the youth ranks at Crystal Palace before the 24-year-old Canada international moved to Japan and first arrived in the Danish Superliga with Vejle Boldklub in 2006.
That will give you the best picture of urban Japan, both the old and the new.
No one is surfing this giant wave like Yasumitsu Shigeta, 34-year-old president of Hikari Tsushin, Japan's hottest wireless phone vendor.
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