Stroll the boutiques of downtown Truckee, then grab dinner and jazz at Moody's Bistro and Lounge, which lives by local, seasonal ingredients, whether it's a Shaw Family Farm egg, a Durham Ranch steak, or Heidi Watanabe's tomatoes.

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However, Abe will be mindful of factions such as Yoshimi Watanabe's Your Party, which holds 12 of 236 seats in the upper house, and says it does not want anyone who came up through the ranks of the BoJ or finance ministry.

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To cope with the strain of managing Japan's biggest brokerage, Nomura Holdings Chief Executive Kenichi Watanabe snatches three-minute meditations when he's holed up in his Tokyo office.

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With 8, 000 former Lehman Brothers workers to integrate into Nomura's workforce, Watanabe lately has had much to mull over.

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Since revealing his plan in September to pick up part of Lehman, Watanabe has seen Nomura's shares drop 55% compared with a 31% dip in the benchmark Nikkei 225.

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Its penalty was widely expected after the bank's former chief executive Kenichi Watanabe quit, taking responsibility for the scandal.

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"We were a little bit concerned about his ability to distribute the film, " says Shozo Watanabe, general manager of Toho's Los Angeles office.

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The company's last president, Katsuaki Watanabe, tried to keep out of the limelight during his stint, spending his leisure time singing in a men's choir.

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Under Mr Fukuda, power has flowed back to the factions and to the party gerontocrats notably two former prime ministers, Yasuhiro Nakasone (89) and Yoshiro Mori (70) as well as Tsuneo Watanabe (81), publisher of Japan's biggest-circulation newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun.

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