According to the Recording Industry Association of Japan, 4.36 billion files were illegally downloaded in the country in 2010.
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On January 18th the Investment Trust Association of Japan, the industry body, came up with a rushed set of investment rules.
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"All the four companies sold Enron bonds yesterday because of Enron's deep financial troubles, " an official from the Investment Trusts Association of Japan said.
The Recording Industry Association of Japan had pushed for the move, suggesting that illegal media downloads outnumbered legal ones by about a factor of 10.
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However, after participating in literacy classes at a Community Learning Center, supported by the National Federation of UNESCO Association of Japan, her life changed dramatically.
The Japan Restoration Association is organizationally strong in West Japan, the Kansai and Chubu regions.
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The Keizai Doyukai (The Japan Association of Corporate Executives) is an influential business organization.
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In the past several posts, I have presented in some detail conclusions of this reflection offers by the Japan Association of Business Executives (Keizai Doyukai).
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The Japan Association of Corporate Executives, Keizai Doyukai, is hoping to raise the percentage of female managers, executives and board members to 30% by 2020 from nearly 11% now.
As boss of his own stevedore company and chairman of the Japan Harbour Transportation Association, the formidable Mr Takashima has threatened to ban all American ships from Japan.
According to the Japan Whaling Association, whale meat accounted for 48% of Japanese meat consumption in the 1960s (it was included in school lunches until 1985).
Still, after another hike in procurement costs last autumn, the Japan Corrugated Association, the industry body, called on its members to start raising cardboard-box prices.
He later denied having said anything of the sort wisely perhaps, since the Japan Sumo Association, which can make or break a wrestler's career, does not take kindly to criticism.
Unexpectedly, it was our district's president of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan.
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Separate figures released by the Japan Automobile Dealers Association on Monday showed Mitsubishi Motor's domestic sales in October were 49.8% lower than year-earlier.
Takao Tominaga, a special adviser to the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, points out that Nissan, unlike Toyota, has its headquarters in Tokyo far removed from its factories.
Refining costs in Japan, reckons Japan's Petroleum Association, are twice those of neighbouring South Korea.
According to the Japan Mini-Vehicle Association, sales in affiliate Mitsubishi Fuso dropped 9.6% to 5, 942 vehicles following a 29.9% drop in July.
In January, the Fukushima branch of Japan's nursery school association raised an alarm.
The International Air Transport Association estimated that about 7% of Japan's GDP was meant to come from tourism and travel this year.
Staff at the Bungei Shunju say that, after its February article, officials from the Keidanren, Japan's premier business association, rang to congratulate the magazine on its good work.
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.
In terms of digital recording, according to the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, Nippon Columbia from Japan (also known as Denon) would pioneer its use in the late '60s and early '70s, releasing the first commercial digital recording: the LP "Something" by Steve Marcus.
Last March, following accusations by independent bloggers in Japan and Germany, the American Heart Association (AHA) issued an Expression of Concern about five papers published in AHA journals co-authored by the chief investigator of the Kyoto Heart Study, Hiroaki Matsubara, who was a prominent cardiologist and researcher at Kyoto Prefectural University in Japan.
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"U.S. companies' bids were simply disregarded, " says Charles Barnes, Japan representative of APA-the Engineered Wood Association, a U.S. trade group.
In the wake of that glorious England victory over Argentina, Sir David was joined by the Football Association's David Davies live from Awaji Island in Japan.
"Japanese bass fishing is a 'dark fishing' and cannot be called a sport, " Minuro Sato , the director of Japan's National Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Association, recently told the Los Angeles Times.
However, she believed that her Housewives' Association, with its 391 branches, had done more to improve Japan's quality of life than the men in the Diet.
Ms. Bokova went on to receive a warm welcome at the Sendai UNESCO Association, birthplace of a movement of non-governmental UNESCO activities in Japan soon after the first Club was created.
The ten members of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) have held meetings with Japan, China and South Korea for seven years in a row.
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