Just like the history-changing chat between two ping-pong players on a bus in Nagoya in 1971?
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People in Nagoya, however, are yearning for something more: a way to expand and invigorate their economic base.
Sure enough, the Toyota Stadium in Nagoya is covered in the club's colors.
The slight 40kg (88 pound) Noguchi won her marathon debut in Nagoya in 2002 before going on to win the 2003 Osaka Marathon.
First established in 1997 in Nagoya, Japan, RoboCup pits robots from around the world in contests of skill including their capacity to provide disaster management and assisted living services.
The Second Global Private Donor Forum took place at the margins of COP10 in Nagoya, gathering prominent figures from diverse sectors, including business, private foundations and the international political platform.
The company carried out on-site inspections of all its 25 plants in Japan after detecting trichlorethylene levels at 15, 600 times the permitted level at a factory in Nagoya last October.
"Japan had to decide between strengthening its alliance with the U.S., going it alone or kowtowing to the Chinese, " says Robyn Lim, a professor of international relations at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan.
Those efforts contributed significantly to the outcome of the 10th ordinary meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 10), held in Nagoya (Japan) in October 2010.
Jong was born and raised in Nagoya, Japan.
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In the previous blog post I mentioned how the global media had a series of stories on North Korean World Cup soccer team striker Jong Tae-Se, a North Korean passport-holder born and raised in Nagoya, Japan.
And just like Jacques Chirac, the French president, who attended the expo's opening, few of those visitors will be expected back in Nagoya soon even if the new airport does boast a wedding hall and a public bath.
Participants took into account the recommendations of the international conference on biodiversity held in Nagoya in October 2010 and referred to the work of the United Nations climate change conference in Cancun, which ended on 11 December.
All this good stuff, however, has little to do with the CBD, the 193 parties to which began one of their two-yearly meetings this week in Nagoya (America is not one of them, having not ratified the convention).
This Programme has been welcomed by the CBD COP 10 in Nagoya which recognized the Programme as 'useful coordination mechanism to advance the implementation of the Convention and deepen global awareness of the inter-linkages between cultural and biological diversity'.
The IYB activities, including those of UNESCO, contributed significantly to the successful outcome of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP10) which took place in Nagoya, Japan in October 2010 where a new ten-year strategic plan and a new international treaty on access and benefit sharing from genetic resources were adopted.
On the other hand, your correspondent recently heard a senior Japanese businessman give a speech (off the record) at a conference in Nagoya in which he described China's territorial ambitions in East Asia, and particularly its hunger for resources, as being akin to Hitler's Lebensraum policy in the 1930s, stating that it must be resisted at all costs.
This reference is now more fully articulated in the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing which was adopted under the Convention in October 2010.
The country recruited Brazilians and Peruvians of Japanese descent to work in the industrial clusters around Tokyo and Nagoya in Aichi prefecture that serve the country's giant carmakers and electronics firms.
Members of the Sendai scientific community were amply represented in the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in the Japanese city of Nagoya, in mid-October 2010.
In 2009, the RIKEN-TRI Collaboration Center for Human-Interactive Robot Research (RTC), a joint project established in 2007 and located at the Nagoya Science Park in central Japan, unveiled a robot called RIBA (Robot for Interactive Body Assistance) designed to assist in this task.
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The 35-year-old playmaker, who earns his living in Japan playing for Nagoya Grampus Eight, has announced his decision to retire after one more season in the J-League.
The most straightforward approach is that of Shoji Maruo and Koji Ikuta, at Nagoya University in Japan.
The company is planning to move its headquarters to Nagoya from Tokyo in 2007.
As for the models announced today, from 30 September 2011, KDDI Designing Studio (Harajuku, Tokyo), from 27 September 2011, au NAGOYA (Nagoya) starts in Chicago.
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Some 18, 000 participants representing 193 State Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and their partners attended the Nagoya Biodiversity Summit in Japan this October to agree a global deal to protect biodiversity.
This summer Japan Airlines began installing NFC equipment at its major hubs in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and Okinawa, becoming the first airline globally to enable smart phones with NFC chips to act as boarding passes for passengers flying domestically, relieving travellers of the need to fumble with an airline app or the relevant email to find the barcode currently used on mobile boarding passes.
For the Asia-Pacific region, the UNESCO-Bangkok Office has facilitated the elaboration of a regional implementation strategy, which was launched at Nagoya (Japan) in June 2005.
In the past, Hakuta might find himself carrying a load of stainless-steel pipes from a factory in Tokyo's suburbs to Nagoya, only to return home empty-handed.
When Fusaro Sekiguchi, a small-time Nagoya manufacturer, founded the firm in 1974, lifetime employment was a birthright.
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