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"We haven't seen champagne popped in some time, " says Lisa Kitagawa, the bar's co-owner.
WSJ: Mining Woes Snag Financial Firms
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In six years, says Mr Kitagawa, 800 of the prefecture's 3, 300 budget items have disappeared.
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Separately, Haruna Kitagawa, 23, froze to death after leaving her car, stuck in the snow.
NPR: Snow Kills 8 In Japan, Including Family In Car
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"It is a system of irresponsibility, " says Masayasu Kitagawa, Governor of Mie prefecture.
CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Japan: Japan's Governors Take Aim at Mighty Tokyo
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In Mie Mr Kitagawa has introduced a system to evaluate the cost- effectiveness of major items in the prefectural budget.
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"Consumers are migrating content consumption from PCs to other connected devices, such as tablets and smartphones, " said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner.
BBC: PC sales worldwide have tumbled, data from IDC shows
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Kitagawa has set new standards for information disclosure publishing a balance sheet of his government's assets and debts, a first for any prefecture in Japan.
CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Japan: Japan's Governors Take Aim at Mighty Tokyo
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Meanwhile, it's still too early to tell whether netbooks have created a new global product segment or cannibalized traditional ones, says Gartner analyst Mikako Kitagawa.
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Masayasu Kitagawa, the governor of Mie prefecture and a pioneer of the new confrontational style, won celebrity last year by opposing the construction of a nuclear power plant.
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"This revision will reduce the spread of copyright infringement activities on the internet, " said the body's chairman Naoki Kitagawa, who is also chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment Japan, earlier this year.
BBC: Japan introduces piracy penalties for illegal downloads