Vollman, whose narrative persona walks the thin edge between reason and reason-to-worry, treks to Japan weeks after the March 11 earthquake creates the greatest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
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The 34-year-old, who said he felt empty and exhausted after winning his sixth crown in Japan two weeks ago, wants to feel re-energised for the 2004 season.
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At the invitation of the Japanese government, Center Board member Roger Robinson as in Japan six weeks ago to hold discussions about the upcoming Gorbachev visit to Tokyo and other matters.
The Obama administration has conveyed its concerns about the security of surplus plutonium to Japan in recent weeks, said U.S. and Japanese officials.
Investors called on the Bank of Japan, which three weeks ago reduced a peripheral interest rate, to cut the main rate, raised from 0% to 0.5% in August on hopes of a recovery in the country's economy.
The yen has strengthened in recent weeks, hurting Japan's export-led economy.
It is instructive to look at where the last major console releases were 18 weeks after launch in Japan.
Because the situation in Japan continues to develop, supply interruptions related to materials and components from Japan could manifest themselves in the weeks ahead.
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The finance minister's resignation had been expected for weeks, and in Japan such a strong expectation is a cast-iron indicator that the plans had been well and truly laid.
The agency in question here, the NRC, as Chairman Jaczko said yesterday, focuses day to day, including prior to the events in Japan -- for days, weeks, months and years -- day to day on the safety and security of the nuclear facilities in the United States.
We were on a high, as Japan has been for the last five weeks.
Three weeks after what happened in Japan, are you convinced that TEPCO has that situation under control?
Japan's justice minister has resigned weeks after taking office citing ill health, amid a scandal over alleged ties to an organised crime group.
The effect on world-wide nuclear growth "will depend upon how things play out in Japan over the next few days or weeks, " Mr. Carter said.
During the past few weeks, central banks in Japan, Australia, Canada, Brazil and India have either made changes to their monetary policy or hinted at changes to come.
It was coined many weeks before the disaster in Japan.
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Mr Takenaka has only been in charge of the Financial Services Agency, which regulates Japan's banks, for a few weeks.
Most large chipmakers in Japan and Korea have trimmed output in recent weeks to reduce inventories and bring a semblance of calm to the market.
Three weeks ago, the US and Japan agreed to set up a second missile defence system on Japanese soil in response to the North Korean threat.
Investors have poured money into Japan equity funds in 10 of the last 12 weeks, according to EPFR Global.
"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.
Germany is among more than two dozen industrialized countries -- from Australia to Slovenia to Japan -- that require employers to offer four weeks or more of paid vacation to their workers, according to a 2009 study by the human resources consulting company Mercer.
It takes five weeks for Bell's bagels to journey to Japan (they can last up to 11 months).
Japan's Nikkei Stock Average climbed 3.8% to the highest level since September 2008, and the yen fell against the dollar to briefly touch a near three-year low, after Bank of Japan Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa offered to step down three weeks before the expiration of his term.
Moreover, in the last few weeks, Iressa has been linked to 39 deaths in Japan from interstitial pneumonia, a rare lung disorder.
The crews arrived four days after the 24-foot tsunami had swept the plant, and in the ensuing 10 weeks they logged 507 flight hours crisscrossing the skies over Japan in a Beechcraft C-12 twin engine turboprop out of nearby Yokota Air Base.
Asia ex-Japan equity funds recorded outflows for the second time in the past three weeks.
That is why the Bank of Japan has (unsuccessfully) intervened to sell yen several times in recent weeks.
The main bank, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, is Japan's strongest (a relative term) and until a few weeks ago the world's largest.
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