Johno Toshiyuki, an analyst with Nikko, Salomon Smith Barney, says Kajima has taken a big writedown in its land assets.

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The month at Yamaichi typically began with a sales list from head office, says Toshiyuki Suzuki, now Merrill's Nagano branch manager.

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Toshiyuki Nakagaki of the Bio-Mimetic Control Research Centre, Nagoya, Japan, placed pieces of the slime mould Physarum polycephalum in an agar gel maze comprising four possible routes.

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"We know decisions will be made in the third week of the month, so we try to move faster and pull things ahead if we can, " says Nissan's chief operating officer, Toshiyuki Shiga.

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Toshiyuki Makiguchi, who runs Uwaki Rescue SOS, a Tokyo-based consulting company to help people find out if their partners are cheating, said more than half of his 600 customers a year find some evidence of cheating on their partner's mobile phone.

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"When you are the first one to get hold of a new gadget, it's important that people around you already know a little bit about the product and can recognize it, " said Toshiyuki Ueno, an engineer and technology consultant, who got an iPad last month in the U.S. and has a reservation to buy a 3G version in Japan.

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