Finally, the Nature study was published in May, led by University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka.
Kimishima will be replacing both Yoshihiro Mori and Masaharu Matsumoto, who are retiring.
Mr Matsumoto berated Miyagi prefecture governor Yoshihiro Murai for keeping him waiting for a few minutes and refused to shake his hand.
"The market has yet to bottom, and volatility will likely remain for another month, " said Yoshihiro Okumura, general manager for research at Chibagin Asset Management.
The prefectural governor, Yoshihiro Murai, takes a somewhat different tack.
"It was a very fast-moving market today, but the data for trading volume and value, while robust, were not terribly high relative to last Thursday's selloff, " said Yoshihiro Okumura, general manager for research at Chibagin Asset Management.
"With some softening in the dollar, players are electing to take profits as the market has risen almost without a hitch since the Bank of Japan's monetary policy loosening on April 4, " said Yoshihiro Okumura, general manager Chibagin Asset Management.
"The situation in Italy can be extrapolated to carry larger significance in Europe, but the reality is that the Continent's financial system is much more stable than when regional political events could trigger a panic-induced sell-off, " said Yoshihiro Okumura, general manager at Chibagin Asset Management.
It emerged in December that the authorities in the United States had recommended withholding from general publication the detailed results and methods of the study, as well as those of a second one led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (This also created transmissible strains, albeit less virulent ones.) Both studies had received grants from America's National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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