Investors have little enthusiasm for well-run old Japan firms, such as Kirin Beverage, a soft-drinks maker that has not yet found a new-Japan marketing angle.
Meantime, 32-year-old software magnate Takafumi Horie is banging at the doors of old corporate Japan.
The 16-year-old initially held serve against the 40-year-old from Japan but was broken in the seventh game of the opening set.
The old Pwc Japan (Misuzu, formerly ChuoAoyama Pricewaterhouse) calls it quits.
Mr Koizumi is, of course, wrestling with the old problem of Japan's muddled party politics.
Reality for most old people in Japan's major cities is often much grimmer.
Mr. Abel says he is still stinging from an especially harsh beat-down at the hands of "some 12-year-old girls from Japan" in a giant-robot game called Chromehounds.
Big bang is wrecking the old solidarity among Japan's bankers, their trade association is losing its power to maintain a united front, and yucho, at last, is beginning to find willing private-sector allies.
India and China should keep trundling along. (The economic battle will be among their states and provinces.) Tackling old inefficiencies, Japan has years of gains ahead, and stubborn South Korea will find a way to overcome each obstacle it puts in its own way.
The 30-year-old former employee at Japan Post Co. is heading to the U.K. in August to study fashion.
Kazuya Ito, a 31-year-old worker with the Japan-based group Peshawar-kai, was dragged from his car in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan on Tuesday, the Afghan Interior Ministry said.
After the samurai, farmers were the most privileged group in Japan's old feudal hierarchy.
Japan's old guard worries that radical steps will precipitate an economic crisis, and so prefers the status quo.
Could anything be truer with regard to old age welfare reform in Japan (or in the U.S., for that matter)?
"So however the world turns, we have deep links to the West, Japan, and old links to China and India that we'll deepen, " Yeo said.
Brash, young, aggressive, loud and on the make, these companies ooze with the type of values that Japan's old business elite finds distasteful and dangerous.
Issey Nakajima-Farran, who can play either on the wing or up front, came through the youth ranks at Crystal Palace before the 24-year-old Canada international moved to Japan and first arrived in the Danish Superliga with Vejle Boldklub in 2006.
That will give you the best picture of urban Japan, both the old and the new.
No one is surfing this giant wave like Yasumitsu Shigeta, 34-year-old president of Hikari Tsushin, Japan's hottest wireless phone vendor.
The meltdown of three reactors at a single generating station in Japan in March rekindled old concerns about the safety of nuclear power.
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Under the gaze of television cameras, Yoshizawa Yasuyuki, the 42-year-old head of the Bank of Japan's capital-markets division, was driven away in a black sedan.
Day after day in the headlines, there it is once more, like an old warrior rising in the mist: Japan!
"What Sawada is doing has served as a wake-up call for Japan because it challenges the old system, " says one airline executive.
The new (old) Liberal Democratic Party government in Japan also appears to be reversing the pinch on the nuclear industry that was applied after the Fukushima disaster of 2011.
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Hence the voters' rejection of the old system in favour of something unfamiliar in Japan: an open and accountable government.
The 35-year-old playmaker, who earns his living in Japan playing for Nagoya Grampus Eight, has announced his decision to retire after one more season in the J-League.
"If the tax office hadn't called, I wouldn't be where I am now, " laughs the 33-year-old, now president of Plaza Create, Japan's largest photo-processing chain, with over 800 shops.
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