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Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa all worked on what is known as symmetry breaking.
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Alex Barros was seventh for Camel Honda and Makoto Tamada eighth on the Konica Honda.
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Makoto Hasebe was sent off for elbowing Uzbek captain Server Djeparov with two minutes remaining but Japan held on.
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"We'd like direct marketers to force established Japanese companies to cut premiums, " says Makoto Kurita, an official with Japan's Fair Trade Commission.
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The government's bar is "unacceptable, " said Makoto Yamada, a 70-year-old Tokyo-based pediatrician.
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Ten years ago, Mr Yamashina handed over the daily running of the business to his eldest son, Makoto, but stayed on as an adviser.
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On New Year's Eve another former member of Aum Shinrikyo, Makoto Hirata, turned himself in to police after nearly 17 years on the run.
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First Daisuke Matsui's clever flick struck the legs of Denmark goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen, and moments later Makoto Hasebe raced into the box but fired narrowly wide.
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After eight years of struggle, the so-called Standard Model of particle physics was revised (by Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, of Nagoya University), to accommodate the asymmetry.
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Makoto Yamashina and his boardroom colleagues agreed to sell the firm to Sega Enterprises, a Japanese video-game maker that was itself being hammered by Sony and Nintendo.
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Yoshito Okubo was guilty of a bad miss early on before Tamada showed his strike partner the way, sliding in to fire home a right-wing cross from Makoto Hasebe in the 21st minute.
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