Still, the Bach Collegium Japan delivered a performance of gently glowing beauty, with Bach in consoling rather than apocalyptic mode.
Nigerian coach Christian Chukwu praised Japan's performance but said he was not too concerned by the defeat, given that he expected only two of Wednesday's 11 to make it into the team for the Nations Cup.
The problem is that better-than-expected performance in Japan was offset by disappointing demand in Europe.
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Last year, international patents applications increased by 4.8 percent, with strong growth from China, Korea, and Japan offsetting a mixed performance in European countries and a continued decline in the United States.
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Mitsubishi said it hoped stronger sales in Europe, China and Russia, where the recall scandal had less of an impact, would offset a weaker performance in Japan and the US in the months ahead.
While lower gas prices and the recovery of the auto sector (as supply chain disruptions eased in Japan) boosted economic performance in the third quarter, Hatzius believes the U.S. economy will continue to muddle through until the private sector feels comfortable enough that it has fixed its balance sheet to begin spending.
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Gulf Air came in second with 90.77% on-time performance, and Japan Airlines placed third with 90.24%.
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You can take a closer look in our hands-on video after the break, in a real-time performance demo with the Japan-based team.
The current holder of the World's Fastest Computer title is the K computer, which was brought online in June at a computing institute in Kobe, Japan, and has a peak performance of 8.162 petaflops.
The United States were in silver medal position but poor pommel horse routines from Kei Wen Tan and Raj Bhavsar allowed Japan to finish second after a strong team performance on the high bar.
The list got a lot of publicity, mainly because of the relatively poor ranking given the U.S. Our "overall performance" was 37th, behind Japan, most of western Europe and such nations as Colombia and Morocco.
Some corporate boards ought to at least consider a return to what was once the norm in both America and Europe (and still is in Japan) and largely ditch pay-for-performance and instead pay largely through a straight salary (most lower-level employees are paid this way).
The SGI business is showing resiliency, despite macro-concerns, with strong quarter performance in U.S. Federal, Japan and Americas Commercial.
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Likewise, among foreign funds, the leadership of Latin American funds like Fidelity Latin America (FLATX) faded from 2009 to 2010 as Japan funds like Hennessy Select SPARX Japan (SPXJX) rose to the upper part of performance tables.
Under Marinitch's guidance, Orozco claimed bronze at the 2011 U.S. Nationals (where he earned the same second-day score as the winner Danell Leyva in a format where the highest two-day total determined the winner), and had his breakout performance at the Worlds two months later in Japan.
Our basic idea is motivated by the stock market performance of minority investors in publicly held subsidiaries in Japan.
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Wall Street's performance followed a rebound on world markets that saw Japan's Nikkei up 6.4 percent and Hong Kong's Hang Seng post its biggest single-day gain in more than a decade.
As the world watches the disasters in Japan continue to unfold, there is much criticism of the performance of the Tokyo Electric Power Company, operator of the Fukushima nuclear power complex.
The ratios are based on a complicated formula that takes account of such things as income per person as well as the overall size of economies (Japan's misfortune was to be assessed on its economic performance before the recent downturn).
Hideki Matsui's heroic performance for the Yankees last autumn was loudly celebrated in Japan.
This year, for instance, the fund was up 71% to Oct. 31, double the performance of the MSCI Combined Far East Free Ex-Japan Index.
Manufacturing and services - which make up the bulk of the economy - had grown during 2012, seeing a similar performance to that in the US and considerably stronger than in Japan and the eurozone, he said.
"Monday's reaction to the Cyprus situation was not unexpected given stocks' stellar performance over the past several weeks, " said Nicholas Smith, Japan equity strategist at CLSA in Tokyo.
Simultaneous reform on all fronts is essential if Japan is successfully to get to grips with problems that have blighted its economic performance for more than a decade.
Here is the performance of the most popular Japanese ETF on the market, the iShares MSCI Japan (EWJ).
Today, the dance is a cultural and aesthetic event, connecting townspeople to their agricultural heritage, to Japan's tradition of reliance on rice, and to a group identity transmitted across centuries through folk performance.
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