Mitarai believes that answer is clear: First, Japan must actively enter into trade and investment-liberalizing agreements.
Kim first recognized Japan's big role in the weapons business while digging through trade journals and footnotes.
The 3DS goes on sale first in Japan on Feb. 26 and then in the U.S. and Europe in March.
First, Japan and the United States, at this meeting of APEC, of pan-Pacific countries, we shall step up our cooperation.
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The anterior cruciate ligament problem halted his progress after he won silver at the 2007 world championships -- another first for Japan.
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Mr Krishna's visit is the first to Japan by an Indian minister since Prime Minister Manmohan Singh named his new cabinet in May.
As it turned out, the League, lacking the support of the world's most powerful country, was unable to stop aggression by, first, Japan, then Italy and Germany.
And by the end of the first half Japan had relative control, with towering Brazilian-born defender Tulio heading just wide before Matsui lashed a decent volley straight at goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg.
But Button responded with a new fastest lap of the race to take his third win of the season and a first in Japan, which he has described as his second home.
No less important, American military officers helped make abortion the population control tool of choice in those Asian countries where they wielded influence, first in Japan in the late 1940s and 1950s, then South Korea in the 1960s.
Although NHN Japan's self-developed apps alone will be released at first, NHN Japan has made it clear that it plans to increase the availability of apps developed by external business partners by opening its API and offering developers access to LINE's functions including friends lists, messaging and payment.
The Consumer Price Index for the first quarter in Japan was the highest in ten years.
Judge's first tasks in Japan are helping TEPCO change its safety culture and restore public confidence.
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It was the U.S. investor group's first acquisition in Japan--but it surely won't be the last.
Gap was one store that said sales were hurt by the first earthquake in Japan last month.
On my first tour in Japan, I was determined to break the pattern.
The Welsh plant employs more than 500 people and became the first factory outside Japan to build Toyota's hybrid engine.
So did European travellers when Japan first began to open up to them at around the turn of the 16th century.
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As it turns out, combat scenes hardly feature in the manga of the first decade after Japan surrendered to the Allied forces.
When first developed in Japan in the 1970s, the idea of just-in-time (JIT) marked a radical new approach to the manufacturing process.
This is not the first time that Japan has taken such measures.
The first games in Japan were played by ex-pats and visiting sailors.
Over the past few months New York-based American Home and Zurich Insurance have been permitted to sell auto policies over the phone for the first time in Japan.
In terms of pricing and availability, well, we definitely don't have a price, but Fujitsu did indicate it would arrive in Japan first, followed by Europe in June.
They were the first carrier in Japan to carry the iPhone, which was seen by most observers as a device that would suffer the same fate that the Xbox.
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One important event happened between the first speculation about Japan's entry into TPP back in 2010 and Mr. Abe's announcement on Friday: the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.
The action-packed fantasy RPG sold 302, 040 copies on PS3 in its first week in Japan, plus another 29, 024 on Xbox 360, making it the best week for a new IP in a decade.
Israel "Lev" Levarek, owner of a 13-year-old toy store with three employees, is considering making his first trip to Japan in three years, so he can buy Transformers action figures from wholesalers and shopping malls in Tokyo.
Japan are bidding to host the Rugby World Cup for the first time as the Japan Rugby Football Union (JRFU), who lost out to New Zealand for the right to host the 2011 World Cup, has bid for the 2015 and 2019 events.
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