Boozing into the night might inhibit coherent speech, but a Japanese company bets it will make workers communicate better. And it's even willing to pay for it.

喝酒至深夜可能会导致说话语无伦次，但日本一家公司却认为喝酒可以增进员工间的交流，而且甚至愿意为此买单。

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A: as for your first question, the speech by the Japanese delegation actually has fully shown the will of Japan and other sides to make the talks progress forward.

关于你的第一个问题，日本代表团的发言正好体现了日方及其他方面希望会谈能够取得进展的意愿。

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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda chaired the meeting and delivered a speech.

日本首相福田康夫主持会议并发言。

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Yoshi Oida is terrific as Rosencrantz and the player king, delivering his first speech in Japanese to a mystified audience.

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On the other hand, your correspondent recently heard a senior Japanese businessman give a speech (off the record) at a conference in Nagoya in which he described China's territorial ambitions in East Asia, and particularly its hunger for resources, as being akin to Hitler's Lebensraum policy in the 1930s, stating that it must be resisted at all costs.

ECONOMIST: China and Japan

According to the MIT Technology Review, a pair of Japanese researchers have the solution for you: a speech jamming gun.

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