"We viewed them as designers from the get-go, " says Tomoko Ogura, the store's senior fashion director.

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Tomoko Namba, founder of DeNA, did not know how big the online auction startup she founded in 1999 would be.

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But when they went to visit, family members repeatedly chased them away, according to Tomoko Iwamatsu, an Adachi ward official.

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DeNA wants to become the largest mobile social games company in the world and a household name in the U.S., says its chief executive Tomoko Namba.

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Another young swimmer, Tomoko Hagiwara, climbed out of the pool after finishing seventh in her 200-m individual-medley qualifying heat last Monday, her shoulders sagging, her head tilted downward.

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Americans largely don't follow judo too closely, but we're told Tomoko Fukumi, the top-seed in the 48-kilogram class, is the Manny Pacquiao of her division before Mr. Pacquiao's upset by Timothy Bradley.

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An example is a stark set of black-and-white photographs by Tomoko Yoneda, showing heat burns on peeling wallpaper above a radiator, interior shots of poverty positioned in such a way as to provoke and unsettle the upmarket diner.

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