Superior Court Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki told the jury to return Tuesday for opening statements.
"Although the situation is beyond our control, we sincerely apologise to fans, " said spokesman Hiroshi Oshima.
Mikitani Hiroshi (49) is founder and CEO of the online marketing company Rakuten (Jasdaq 4755).
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But Sony Electronics VP of Home Entertainment Hiroshi Sakamoto may be the first to break that silence.
Hiroshi Ishiguro, a robotocist at Osaka University, cites the example of asking directions.
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Ulrich and Toyota Motor 's (nyse: TM - news - people ) Hiroshi Okuda , both at 80%.
Hiroshi Mitsuzuka, the finance minister, will be invited to fall on his sword to take responsibility for the scandals within his ministry.
Hiroshi Mitsuzuka, the Japanese finance minister, denies he has been arm-twisting the banks to get them to roll over their Thai loans.
"What the numbers tell us is that fiscal packages do have an impact, " says Kuribayashi Hiroshi, an economist with Barclays Capital in Tokyo.
The system was devised in Japan by Hiroshi Kumon's father, Toru, who was concerned after his son Takeshi scored badly in a math exam.
Hiroshi Ichikawa was a prosecutor for nearly 13 years - until he lost his job for threatening to kill a suspect during an interrogation.
Toyota's chairman, Hiroshi Okuda, had previously expressed his willingness to co-operate with US companies, amid concern over growing trade tensions between the US and Japan.
Meanwhile, both the 250cc and 125cc titles could be decided this weekend, with Hiroshi Aoyama and Julian Simon poised to celebrate in their respective classes.
Other candidates for the governor job include Hiroshi Watanabe, chief executive of the Japan Bank for International Co-operation, and professors Kikuo Iwata and Takatoshi Ito.
Hence the first reaction on January 27th, when Hiroshi Mitsuzuka, Japan's finance minister, announced that he was quitting, was a sharp raising of international eyebrows.
"He follows the rugby spirit--in other words, the spirit of fair play, " says the wrestler, Hiroshi Hase, now a member of the upper house of parliament.
Fred Alger, an investment-management firm that also had offices in the North tower, lost a collection of photographs by trendy artists such as Cindy Sherman and Hiroshi Sugimoto.
Hiroshi Kawano has revealed to 4Gamer that even he hasn't seen the finished system, and he only saw the DualShock 4 the day before it went on stage.
Italian Marco Simoncelli won in the 250cc race, with Hiroshi Aoyama finishing fourth to extend his championship lead to 26 points after Alvaro Bautista crashed out early on.
Two things give reason to hope: The leadership of e-commerce retailer Hiroshi Mikitani in the administration's reform councils and Mr. Abe's commitment to bring Japan into the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade negotiations.
Two maverick characters, one from business (Mikitani Hiroshi, the subject of this post), one from politics (Hashimoto Toru, the focus of my next post), personify the new legitimacy being accorded to change-drivers.
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But there are two reasons to hope: The leadership of e-commerce retailer Hiroshi Mikitani in the administration's reform councils and Mr. Abe's commitment to bring Japan into the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade negotiations.
The upper house also voted to approve the appointment of Kikuo Iwata and Hiroshi Nakaso as deputies to Mr Kuroda, who is leaving his current job as president of the Asian Development Bank.
Spies returned in second to last place, ahead of Hayden, but picked off Mika Kallio, Hiroshi Aoyama, Marco Melandri, Aleix Espargaro, Hector Barbera and Randy de Puniet to seal an impressive eighth place.
The Mariners had the inside track all along because of Seattle's large Japanese population and the fact that the club's principal owner was none other than Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of Nintendo of Japan.
Hiroshi Mikitani is holding a glass of red wine and chatting up a clique of Silicon Valley tech execs at a swanky party for Pinterest, one of the hottest startups in social media.
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So far, the prime minister's plans for streamlining the troubled finance ministry, not to mention deregulating Japan's hide-bound financial markets, have depended critically on having a strong man like Hiroshi Mitsuzuka as finance minister.
They are unlikely to be helped by their old-fashioned top executives, says Hiroshi Okumura, a professor at Chuo University, who argues that most industrial managers, like bank executives, still have no feel for long-term strategy.
The second was a show of deference to Hiroshi Okuda, Toyota's chairman, who heads the Keidanren, a powerful business federation, which stands for company management and is a vocal advocate of both lower labour costs and wage-bargaining reform.
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Hiroshi Saito, a tourism-promotion official in Ishikawa, said his prefecture saw a 45% increase in the number of foreign visitors to its famous Kenrokuen garden for the first three months of this year, compared with the same period a year earlier.
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