Over in Japan, export-focused companies rallied on the dollar's continued strength against the yen.
Over in Japan, the yen continued to weaken against the US dollar.
New leaders took over in Japan, the Philippines and South Korea, while incumbents, like Hong Kong's Tung Chee-hwa, found their support more waning than waxing.
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Markets responded by rallying from their drops earlier in the day, as fears over nuclear facilities in Japan caused a broad pull-back in equities and a run into government bonds.
The crews arrived four days after the 24-foot tsunami had swept the plant, and in the ensuing 10 weeks they logged 507 flight hours crisscrossing the skies over Japan in a Beechcraft C-12 twin engine turboprop out of nearby Yokota Air Base.
Stocks in the chip-making sector recovered slightly from the panic earlier in the week over their closed plants in Japan.
England had secured their place among the top eight teams in the world with a victory over Japan earlier in the week.
Over the past few months New York-based American Home and Zurich Insurance have been permitted for the first time to sell auto policies over the phone in Japan.
In the land of lifetime employment (at least for many workers in big companies), Mr Ghosn shocked Japan by announcing the closure of five factories employing over 16, 000 people in Japan alone, cutting capacity by 30% to bring it more into line with sales and boosting utilisation rates to around the 75-80% rates at which car makers begin to make money.
The zenith of the sento was in the 1960s, when there were over 23, 000 scattered over Japan and 2, 700 in Tokyo.
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At his peak in 1998, he chalked up a Japanese season-record 45 saves, including an unprecedented 22 in a row, and led Yokohama to victory over the Seibu Lions in the Japan Series.
The high point of his reign was the 5-1 win over Germany in the qualifiers for Japan and South Korea only months after he had taken over.
Easy wins over Jamaica and Japan in the group phase meant a meeting with Romania, winners of England's group, in the first knockout round.
The effect on world-wide nuclear growth "will depend upon how things play out in Japan over the next few days or weeks, " Mr. Carter said.
The bond also gives investors a chance to express their opinion on the expected rate of inflation in Japan over the next ten years, says John Richards of Barclays Capital in Tokyo.
Shigeta expects a massive financial harvest over the next two years, as the number of mobile subscribers in Japan rises to over 70 million and most current users switch, as close to 3 million already have, to new phones with Internet access or e-mail capabilities.
The players who will delight the world in South Korea and Japan over the next month are professionals, playing in the full glare of publicity.
Strong sales growth in all regions, with over 50% growth in Asia Pacific and Japan.
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Several days ago Prince appointed Chief Financial Officer Todd Thomson to take over supervision of the private bank in Japan as well as become CEO of Citigroup's Smith Barney unit, where the costly scandal over research and investment banking had erupted.
In total, in Japan, over 32 million rely on OPTiM's suite of support products and technologies.
While the second world war was on he served in the air force (in bombing missions over Japan).
"This might be a good turning point, " Tashiro said about the concern over damaged nuclear plants in northeastern Japan.
Growth is expected to be negligible over the next 40 years in Japan.
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He points to the way the Nikkei average in Japan rallied over 70% 5 times over the past two decades and then speedily retraced its ascent.
But some analysts see the labor shortage as a sign of trouble awaiting Tohoku once the reconstruction boom ends, and symbolizes what many other regions in Japan face over the coming decades.
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So we are back to uncertainty casting a pall over business investment and growth in Japan, uncertainty made more ominous by the fact that there is no apparent end or solution to its cause.
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The problem may be that bond investors, far from being far-sighted, are in fact myopic, and are perhaps being fooled by the temporary disinflationary effects of excess capacity and debts built up over the bubble years in both Japan and America.
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