With his earrings and dyed hair, Hirano is not the typical buttoned-down lawyer in waiting.
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Hirano has become a kind of guru on property securitization, consulted by companies contemplating similar moves.
Hirano thinks that will be easier to do for Move, which like the Wii, actually has a controller.
"Foreign investors now have no choice but to buy Japanese stocks, " said Kenichi Hirano, market analyst at Tachibana Securities.
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Hirano says sales of add-on game content or in-game virtual goods will help companies to make up for the initial lower price point.
"Anyone doing something totally new always meets strong resistance, " recalls Hirano of his effort to win top-brass backing for the head office securitization.
Negotiations with Goldman Sachs were instructive to Hirano and his colleagues.
"The upward pitch of the market, particularly since May 10, rang many alarm bells and frankly seemed to defy gravity, " said Kenichi Hirano, market adviser at Tachibana Securities.
Consider Hirano Keiichiro, a graduating law student at Kyoto University.
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So it was just a matter of time before someone like Hirano Yuito came along with an obvious if radical idea: sell the company castle - sort of.
"The upward pitch of the market, particularly since May 10, rang many alarm bells and frankly seemed to defy gravity, " said Kenichi Hirano, a market adviser at Tachibana Securities.
This gratitude was echoed by Mr Hirofumi Hirano, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Senior Vice-Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Mr Ken Okuda, during meetings with the Director-General in Tokyo on 16 February 2012.
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