The idea of the uncanny valley was originally proposed by Masahiro Mori, a Japanese roboticist, in 1970.
Masahiro Miki (No. 12) purchased LaCrosse Footwear, a NASDAQ-listed work and outdoor footwear maker, and plans expand international sales.
"I was very disappointed, " said Masahiro Ueda, 38, who works for a software company, of Hatoyama's failure to deliver.
The uncanny valley phenomenon was put forth in an article in "Energy" in 1970 by Japanese robotics expert Masahiro Mori.
"It has started taking a more realistic view, given the depth of the economic contraction, " says World Bank economist Kawai Masahiro.
The wounded party in question is Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai.
Under its energetic 62 year old CEO, Okafuji Masahiro, Itochu continues to earn its long-held reputation as a path breaker and innovator in Japanese business globalization.
More significantly, they have as many important new drugs in their pipeline as drug companies many times their size, says Masahiro Tokunaga, analyst at Okasan securities.
In a research note today, Reitzes notes that his Japan-based colleague Masahiro Nakanomyo contends that Canon and Fuji Xerox could be facing shortages of toner material starting next quarter.
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"I meant to work here until my retirement, " says Masahiro Yoshino, 48, riding a bus from the Nissan plant that makes hatchbacks in the Tokyo suburb of Murayama, one of the factories Nissan plans to shutter.
In a phrase first coined by the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori, get too human and they fall into the "Uncanny Valley", that point on a graph that plots acceptance against how human like a robot is where acceptance falls through the floor.
Masahiro Kawai, an official at the Asian Development Bank, this week urged the region to prepare for a slump in the dollar, the probability of which he compared to that of a global bird-flu epidemic: it is far from a certainty but would have a tremendous impact if it happened.
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In both cases, famous Tokyo-based chefs (Masahiro Yoshitake and Seiji Yamamoto, respectively) decided to branch out and open a second outlet outside of Japan, choosing Hong Kong as the sweet spot, partly because they can easily split their time between their two restaurants, but also because they can use the same fresh ingredients flown in daily.
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