When Japanese parents register their newborns, the local authorities can say no if they don't think the name is appropriate.
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And when Japanese group behaviour changes, he warns, it will change fast.
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There has only been a few occassions when Japanese investors turned to net sellers since the creation of Toshin investment trusts in December 1998.
Like other carmakers, Ford is giving back some of the market share gained in 2011 when Japanese carmakers were hobbled by the earthquake and tsunami.
Remember back when Japanese cars were small, inexpensive and unpretentious?
Building global brands is more competitive and demands more rigorous management than when Japanese and then South Korean companies undertook the challenge at comparative levels of their country's economic development.
If that scenario pans out, it will mean an end to ways of doing business that date back to the early part of this century, when Japanese companies were grouped as zaibatsu (the precursors of today's keiretsu) and backed by the government.
This company outing was to be the biggest tourist group since this summer when Japanese visa regulations were relaxed and the pool of potential Chinese tourists to Japan aligned to Japanese Ministry guidelines regarding job and income levels increased to about 20 million.
Although Intel, under CEO Andy Grove, was able to abandon the memory business and focus on microprocessors at a time when Japanese firms, backed by generous government subsidies, were driving their American rival out of the memory market, the company has not been able to pull a similar trick when it comes to the architectural transition from x86 to ARM.
Yang Xiaohui, a scriptwriter who has worked on many shows about the Japanese invasion, told the Global Times that there are certain principles when developing Japanese characters.
That was when the Japanese currency was trading in the 80s to the dollar.
But when the Japanese stock and property markets collapsed, so did the whole insurance facade.
When the Japanese dumped DRAM chips onto the American market in the mid-1980s, the U.S. won hugely.
He examined the overthrow of Rome and a period in the tenth century when the Japanese government stopped minting coins.
They quickly ebbed when reassertive Japanese conservatives suppressed the unions in the 1960s, and left-wing groups began to fight among themselves.
Will foreign plants, such as those located in the Southern U.S, be a priority when the Japanese domestic economy needs a sharp boost?
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They created great excitement in the West in the 1980s, at a time when every Japanese management technique was treated with great respect.
The son of a grocer, he was attending Queens College -- "the only one I could afford" -- when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
Last week the Nikkei Index shot up 8% in one day when the Japanese government "accepted" the state of affairs and closed down Hokkaido Takushoku Bank.
He wanted to make sure his workers kept up a comprehensive knowledge base, so when the Japanese offered to sell him integrated circuits at half price, he refused.
Aligning himself with strongmen may serve only to boost Mr Hashimoto's popularity, at a time when many Japanese are fed up with the weak-willed characters in national government.
Its analysis system for comprehending how genes work was chosen by Hitachi hit (nyse: hit - news - people) when the Japanese giant decided to get into biotech.
Honda traces its resourcefulness to the 1960s, when the Japanese government tried to keep Honda, then just a motorcycle maker, from building cars because it feared there were too many carmakers.
Besides, says Matsushita, when the Japanese economy was barrelling along, fast growth kept the average age (and hence cost) of the company's workforce low, as it recruited more and more staff each year.
In 1904, the Russian Fleet took heavy losses when the Japanese fleet blocked them as they were trying to escape from Port Arthur in the battle of the Yellow Sea, part of the Russian-Japanese War.
Should we remind investors what happen to gold prices in the 1990s when the Japanese economy slid to deflation, or should I wait to see how the gold-shaped mooncake disc sales fared during the Mid-Autumn festival?
Dortmund, like Bayern on a superb run, looked to be cruising to a routine home win when their Japanese star Shinji Kagawa put them ahead with his fourth goal in three league games on 33 minutes.
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The global future of nuclear as a power source was also called into question after the disaster which occurred in March 2011 when a Japanese earthquake and tsunami rocked the reactors at Fukushima, leaving radioactivity leaking from the plant.
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The future of nuclear as a power source for countries around the world was called into question after the Fukushima disaster in March, when a Japanese earthquake and tsunami damaged the nuclear reactors, leaving radioactivity leaking from the plant.
"Only when the Japanese government faces history with the right attitude and can profoundly reflect on the history will it march toward the future and develop a friendly and cooperative relationship with its neighboring countries and China, " Ms. Hua said Monday.
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