Platinum Games boss Atsushi Inaba expressed interest in the Darksiders IP after the auction.

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Atsushi Ito, chief yen-bond strategist at BNP Paribas Securities in Tokyo, said the 10-year yield could dip below 0.4%.

WSJ: Japanese Government Bonds Soar

Atsushi Seike of Keio University says this is partly because pensioners are subjected to an earnings test, so they get fewer benefits if they continue working.

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Mr. Sasaki will retire along with Atsushi Niimi, who oversaw production and the auto maker's booming North American business, and Yukitoshi Funo, who led the emerging-markets business.

WSJ: Toyota Overhauls Management

Hitachi's Atsushi Morihara says it is a critical race for both of the companies as the resulting product will have a major impact on the mobile market in the future.

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Japan, noted Tokyo Stock Exchange head Atsushi Saito in a speech in early July, has 3, 000 companies that have been around for more than 200 years, as many as the rest of the world combined.

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Mr. Atsushi 'Peter' Shiiba, Itochu Aviation, Inc.

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Atsushi Seike, a labour economist at Keio University, argues that, since the great bulk of older workers are company employees, the solution lies in fixing the corporate employment and retirement systems to allow people more easily to work for longer.

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