With the most advanced tsunami warning system in the world, Japan is a global standard setter.
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Japan reinstated a gold standard in 1871, 1897, 1930 and 1949, each time after extended periods of a floating currency and sometimes hyperinflation.
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Japan set a high standard for handling natural disasters when touching reports surfaced of how orderly and civilized ordinary citizens were despite supply shortages after a devastating 9.03 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
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In contrast with SNS usage in the U.S., Japanese users are more mobile-centric: in a population of 127 million, more than 100 million mobile phones in Japan belong to the 3G standard, about 30 million more than in the United States (with a population of 300 million).
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In 1949-50, Germany, China and Japan all went to a gold standard system after hyperinflation in all three countries.
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China has its own fast-charging standard, though, and Japan will likely stay with CHAdeMO.
U.S. markets have been strong, although not up to the standard set by Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, India, and Brazil.
It's part of the standard approach of Mori Building, Japan's biggest closely held developer, which has built 23 residential complexes in central Tokyo.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange has agreed to use the new standard for corporate actions with the Japan Securities Depository Center (JASDEC) beginning in the spring of 2014.
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The standard American view of the struggle against Japan is that it was just and moral.
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Whatever the ECB comes up with is likely to pale in comparison to developments in Tokyo earlier, where the Bank of Japan announced a massive expansion of its non-standard efforts to increase the amount of money in the economy.
The two Governments confirm that should Japan participate in the TPP negotiations, all goods would be subject to negotiation, and Japan would join others in achieving a comprehensive, high-standard agreement, as described in the Outlines of the TPP Agreement announced by TPP Leaders on November 12, 2011.
Since then, most European nations as well as Japan and Canada have adopted this so-called EMV international credit card standard and abandoned magnetic stripe credit cards for chip-and-pin cards in the process.
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In 1993, NTT DoCoMo, Japan's principal mobile-phone carrier, opted for a technical standard called Personal Digital Cellular (PDC), which was incompatible with the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), the standard adopted by most of the rest of the world.
It's one thing to help struggling countries, quite another to help rich, developed, high-standard-of-living states such as Germany, France and Japan.
By the late 1970s the roles had been reversed: Japan was producing the quality stuff while America's car industry was in crisis and its standard-bearers of quality were Coca-Cola and McDonald's.
For Toshiba and allies Time Warner, Hollywood studio MCA, France's Thomson Consumer Electronics and Japan's Matsushita Electric, Hitachi and Pioneer, the immediate challenge is to make sure SD becomes the industry standard.
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