The Japan Restoration Association is organizationally strong in West Japan, the Kansai and Chubu regions.
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In the 1995 Kobe-Kansai earthquake, local governments provided interest subsidies residents servicing pre-existing debt.
Among the biggies, Toyota is headquartered in Toyota City in the far-away Kansai region.
The 1995 Kobe-Kansai earthquake cost the government some JPY 5 trillion, which was financed by issuing government bonds.
But the plant's operators, Kansai Electric, say they will not use the fuel.
Kansai says it no longer wants the fuel and the Japanese government has demanded it be sent back to Britain.
Glasgow Warriors prop Justin Va'a is relegated to the bench along with former Border Reivers flanker Semo Sititi, now with NTT Docomo Kansai.
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She also references Kansai Yamamoto, an avant-garde Japanese designer who first came to prominence in the 1970s, as another powerful resource for Bowie.
Sending the fuel back, as Kansai Electric threatens, could be a diplomatic nightmare, as well as a legal and financial disaster for all concerned.
Step onto a plane at Osaka's Kansai airport or Bangkok's Don Muang terminal and chances are you will be walking across an airbridge built by Bukaka.
Koji Morioka teaches economics at Kansai University in Osaka.
Kansai Electric, the company which received the fuel from the UK, was furious, along with the local population near the Takahama 4 power station where the consignment was delivered.
It would only take about five one-megaton bombs -- a couple on Tokyo and maybe three in the surrounding Kansai region -- to effectively end Japan as a functioning nation.
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The gangster alleges (an assertion strongly disputed by the Kansai Airport Authority) that mob-controlled companies also substituted industrial waste for the uncontaminated landfill that was supposed to have been used.
That will give him some cover to announce the restarting of the Oi nuclear plant in Fukui prefecture, which powers the Kansai industrial region of which Osaka is the heart.
Japan alone scored four airports in the top 20 (Tokyo Haneda, Central Japan, Tokyo Narita, and Kansai), China scored three ( Hong Kong International, Beijing Capital, and Shanghai Hongqiao).
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"I think the Japanese government wasn't planning on making Mr. Iijima's visit open it was supposed to be behind-the-scenes but the North went ahead and publicized it, " said Lee Young Hwa, professor at Kansai University in Osaka.
Kansai's announcement is the latest stage in a problem for BNFL that began in September, when a British newspaper, the Independent, revealed that fuel quality control data for another batch of Mox pellets had been falsified.
On display will be more than 60 stage-costumes including Ziggy Stardust bodysuits (1972) designed by Freddie Burretti, Kansai Yamamoto's flamboyant creations for the Aladdin Sane tour (1973) and the Union Jack coat designed by Bowie and Alexander McQueen for the Earthling album cover (1997).
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