At the Aldobrandini bridal shop a few blocks away, Maki Maruta echoes such sentiment.
Aside from continued contracting inventories, Maki also expects drops in housing investments and business fixed investments.
With consumption remaining stable, Maki expects a 2% drop in the second quarter gross domestic product.
In August 1996, a referendum was held in Maki, in Niigata prefecture, about a nuclear power plant.
Ontario-based singer-songwriter Kate Maki's new album, On High, is a collection of pastoral country-folk songs that soar with gentle beauty.
"On balance, the upward revisions make the report a bit stronger than we expected, " says Dean Maki of Barclays Capital.
While city hall is overwhelming in its symmetry, the Spiral building (Maki Fumihiko, 1985) in the fashionable Aoyama district is deliberately asymmetrical.
Maki's effortless singing functions as the disc's centerpiece, while musically, her supporting cast plays it fairly straight-ahead and honest, neither over- nor underplaying.
And Hidetoshi Maki, deputy director general of the Tokyo bid, believes the city's emphasis on budget will be a boost in the tightened economic climate.
Maki pointed to the potential three billion TV viewers in Asia as being in favour of the city, which last hosted the Games in 1964.
Despite promises of government riches, the residents of Maki, a small seaside town, voted last summer against having a nuclear power station on their doorstep.
Last Sunday more than 88% of the voters in the small coastal town of Maki turned out to vote in the country's first-ever popular referendum.
Maki also expects the central bank to stick to its current asset purchase plan next week, rather than ramp up its acquisitions of mortgages or Treasuries.
Maki Sugimoto, a surgeon at Japan's Kobe University Hospital who began using replicas of patients' organs for navigation purposes in 2011, employs Japanese company Fasotec Co. to produce the 3-D models.
Maki adds that he believes that the report, together with other recent data, will convince the Federal Reserve to refrain from launching a new asset purchase program at this month's meeting.
Almost all the international stars -- Norman Foster, Nigel Coates and Philippe Starck among them -- as well as leading local talents such as Kurokawa Kisho and Maki Fumihiko have had a hand in remaking Tokyo.
"Given this backdrop, the Fed is likely to sound more upbeat on growth prospects than its April statement, " Maki said, speculating that the Fed may say that the economy looks on track to return to growth over the next few months.
Next week's meeting, which will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, comes at a time of increasing signs that the recession is waning and that there is an imminent return to positive growth, said Dean Maki, chief U.S. economist at Barclays Capital.
She said she relished the chance for her "ethical fashion" label, which she describes as a Nigerian-Italian brand, to share a platform with accomplished designers such as South Africa's Kluk CGDT -- jointly named alongside Nigeria's Maki Oh as "designer of the year" at the event.
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