Boston Consulting's Koichi Hori has known Makihara for years but doesn't think he's the right sort for the job.
Koichi Hori, president of Boston Consulting Group's Japanese office, spent seven years early in his career at Mitsubishi Corp.
Analyst Koichi Nakano of Sophia University, a private university in Tokyo, doubts the opposition can deliver on its pledges.
The prize for mass spectrometry is shared by John Fenn and Koichi Tanaka.
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Koichi Nakano, a political scientist, says the electoral arithmetic suggests this situation could last for another five years at least.
Kato Koichi will quickly blame the loss on popular dissatisfaction with the coalition and try to replace him as prime minister.
Though Mr Hashimoto himself may have little difficulty remaining as party leader, his deputy, Koichi Kato, is itching for a change.
Magosaki is plainly of the latter camp, in which he also identifies prime ministers Tanaka Kakue, Miyazawa Koichi, and Hatoyama Yukio.
Kato Koichi, 61, had long been seen as a future prime minister.
The aim is to carry out conversation experiments between humans and robots in space, speaking with Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata in his native tongue.
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Endeavour has brought home Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, who has spent 138 days in space and has been a member of three separate space station crews.
LDP, led by Koichi Kato (widely viewed as the leading candidate to replace Mr Mori), while not proposing actual spending cuts, are at least opposing new spending plans.
Koichi Kato has therefore retained his post as secretary-general.
In addition, Endeavour delivered a new long-stay US crew member, Tim Kopra, to the ISS and will bring back Japan's Koichi Wakata, who has lived aboard the platform for more than three months.
One who tried to do so late last year, a bright reformer called Koichi Kato, proved not bright enough to carry his erstwhile supporters with him, and is now in the political wilderness.
Mori's only real rivals were Foreign Minister Kono Yohei (who once was LDP party president when the party was out of power and so is the only LDP president never to be prime minister) and Kato Koichi, who heads the second-largest Diet faction.
Koichi Nakano of Sophia University in Tokyo points out that Japan's distorted electoral map exaggerates the size of the defeat: the DPJ lost heavily against LDP candidates in depopulated rural areas that are considered to be the opposition's heartland, but which produce a disproportionate number of seats.
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