"This is kind of an experiment, " said Masayuki Kichikawa from Bank of America-Merrill Lynch.

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Masayuki Akamatsu, a fellow at Tonchidot, wouldn't say how much money the six-person company had raised.

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Masayuki Komatsu led Japan's whaling negotiations until his retirement from the fisheries ministry three years ago.

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Masayuki Okano has a factory in Mukojima, a section of Tokyo's Sumida ward that is jammed with small machine shops.

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"The Japanese voter acts on sentiment when it comes to somebody's illness or death, " says Fukuoka Masayuki, a popular political commentator.

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"We have deeply worried the public, but the system has been restored, " Tepco spokesman Masayuki Ono was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.

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The cause of the power failure was still being investigated, as Tepco had made restoring power the priority, spokesman Masayuki Ono said, according to Kyodo news agency.

BBC: Power at Fukushima nuclear fuel ponds restored

"We understand that we have caused tremendous worry to the people of Fukushima and the wider public and we apologise for that, " Tepco spokesman Masayuki Ono told reporters.

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"Europe's debt crisis is the first factor to pull down exports, and the pace of decline is striking, " said Masayuki Kichikawa from Bank Of America Merrill Lynch in Tokyo.

BBC: Japan exports fall on weak demand in China and Europe

"It's not the kind of situation where fears are just going to fade away, since the required amount of aid that Spain will need is likely to mount given the increasing needs of local government, " said Masayuki Doshida, a senior market analyst at Rakuten Securities in Japan.

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