Indeed, some suggest Hanawa himself is a reluctant reformer, that his hand has been forced by Nissan's new partner, Renault.

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Wang Q, Iwasaki K, Suzuki T, Arai H, Ikarashi Y, Yabe T, Toriizuka K, Hanawa T, Yamada H, Sasaki H.

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Yoko Hanawa is a financial adviser who has become an expert on how to save electricity and protect one's household budget.

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Later Hanawa bowed out gracefully, and he is now honorary chairman.

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Two other former officials charged in the case - Akio Hanawa, 63, and Tadashi Koshikawa, 61 - also held positions at the time of the accident, with Mr Koshikawa in charge of quality control.

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The trouble is that Mr Eckrodt will probably have less authority than Mr Ghosn, since Takashi Sonobe, president of Mitsubishi, is not a lame duck as was Yoshikazu Hanawa, Nissan's former president and present chairman.

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Nissan's president, Yoshikazu Hanawa, was still the highest-ranking executive, but Ghosn clearly was in control, arriving with 17 Renault managers and having them fan out across the company to challenge the ways it had always operated.

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Co-written by Xiu and director Hanawa Yukinari, the film suffers an occasional lapse in continuity, but is fascinating both for its evenhanded look at life among Tokyo's alien population, as well as for its attempts to capture visually the rhythm of the city without endings.

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