"We came to be very confident and comfortable when investing" when others stopped, says Mr. Yamada.
Mr. Yamada says Mitsui wants to invest "in similar scale opportunities" in continental Europe.
Although difficult economic conditions still exist in much of Europe, Mr. Yamada says Mitsui will be bolder this time.
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The government's bar is "unacceptable, " said Makoto Yamada, a 70-year-old Tokyo-based pediatrician.
"The scale and liquidity in Paris is good, and the timing might be right, " says Hideto Yamada, Mitsui Fudosan's managing director in Europe.
In the latest move, Tachi Yamada, head of global health program, who left GlaxoSmithKline ( GSK) to join the foundation in 2006, is leaving in June.
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One is the rise of powerful, independent consumer-electronics retailers, such as Yamada Denki and Deo Deo, as Japan has gradually lifted restrictions on opening big stores.
"When I went to medical school, global health was almost a nontopic, " recalls Tadataka Yamada, 62, the former GlaxoSmithkline executive who now leads the Gates Foundation health efforts.
Indeed, Tachi Yamada, the head of the Gates Foundation's Global Health Programme, suggests bringing in volunteers from the rich world on a temporary basis, to clear the backlog.
Sweeping economic reforms are opening up demand for business travel, notes Yoshihisa Yamada, an executive director at Rakuten, Japan's number one online travel firm and a 20% owner of Ctrip.
From the dance studios of Nagoya, Japan, to the New Jersey Nets' basketball court, Chio Yamada has strutted her stuff with a style that is part Janet Jackson and part Alvin Ailey.
Yamada Denki's return on equity of 12% is high by Japanese standards, and Gray thinks that the company can deliver earnings growth of 20% a year, even if the Japanese economy doesn't recover soon.
In addition, four Marine Sea Knight helicopters flew out of a U.S. Navy base in Atsugi near Tokyo with 18 pallets of clothing and two pallets of food to Yamada Radar Site, north of Sendai.
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