The Atlanta Falcons have signed wide receiver-return specialist NORIAKI KINOSHITA, a native of Osaka, Japan, the club announced today.

亚特兰大猎鹰队日前宣布，他们签下了日本球员木下典明（Noriaki Kinoshita）。 木下出生于大阪，在球队中司职外接手和回攻手。

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"I am very excited to compete at the Falcons' training camp with other great players," says Kinoshita, who hopes to become the first Japanese player in NFL history.

木下希望自己能成为第一位在NFL比赛中登场的日本球员，他说：“能和其他伟大的球员一起在猎鹰的训练营进行竞争，我非常激动。”

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Until late last year, it appeared to be a horse race for the presidency between Mr. Toyoda and Mr. Kinoshita, 63, the right-hand man to Mr. Watanabe, the current president.

直到去年年底，丰田章男和木下光男在总裁的竞争中还难分高下。 现年63岁的木下光男是丰田现任总裁渡边捷昭的得力助手。

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The third building, the Maekawa house, is the one currently owned by Ms. Kinoshita.

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The houses were designed by "the three big guys of postwar Japanese architecture, " according to Ms. Kinoshita.

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The exhibition ended Sunday without a sale, but Ms. Kinoshita sees it "as the starting point, not the end" of her mission to raise awareness of the difficulty of preserving important Japanese architecture.

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