Aso also pledged to announce details in the summer of how Japan planned to reach its target of cutting carbon emissions by up to 80 percent by 2050 and said the country could play a leading role in the development of greener technologies.
Holden, 36, coached in New Zealand and Japan before joining Wasps in the summer of 2005.
Since last summer, Japan has been embroiled in a rancorous dispute with China over a group of small East China Sea islands.
Since last summer, Japan has been embroiled in a bitter dispute with China over a group of small East China Sea islands.
The strain on the grid with summer approaching is raising concern in corporate Japan, which fears it won't have enough power to run production lines in the country.
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The play premiered over the summer in Kabul and has since shown in Japan and Baltimore.
"Steve did visit Japan this summer for a vacation in Kyoto, but the incidents described at the airport are pure fiction, " Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said Wednesday.
He studied Japanese for a year, and took a summer internship at the Long Term Credit Bank of Japan in Tokyo.
This past summer's election kept the LDP in power mainly because Japan's countryside is ruled by a semifeudal system in which politicians distribute tax money to construction companies, gangsters and farmers in exchange for kickbacks and votes.
But it said power shortages in Japan, which are expected to continue during the summer, would prevent production returning to normal until at least October.
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Abe is on a mission to reinvigorate the Japanese economy, win control of the upper house of the Diet (National Assembly) in summer elections and push through constitutional revision to remove constraints on Japan's military.
The three-meter (nine-foot) invertebrate was filmed from a manned submersible during one of 100 dives in the Pacific last summer in a joint expedition by Japanese public broadcaster NHK, Discovery Channel and Japan's National Museum of Nature and Science.
This summer Japan Airlines began installing NFC equipment at its major hubs in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and Okinawa, becoming the first airline globally to enable smart phones with NFC chips to act as boarding passes for passengers flying domestically, relieving travellers of the need to fumble with an airline app or the relevant email to find the barcode currently used on mobile boarding passes.
Most economists in Japan expect the effects of the measures to fizzle out by late summer.
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They had giant-jellyfish invasions in 2005 and 2007, and because they've recently been spotted in the Sea of Japan, they're bracing for another, potentially harmful wave this summer.
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