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...Shootings are extremely rare in Japan - there were only 53 last year - but it's not the first time in recent memory that political violence has struck Nagasaki, the second Japanese city on which the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb in 1945. In 1990, Itoh's predecessor, Hitoshi Motoshima, was shot by a member of a far-right-wing group after stating that Emperor Hirohito bore responsibility for Japan's actions in World War II. (Hirohito had been exempted from any charges at the Tokyo War Crimes trials, and his guilt - or innocence - remains highly controversial in Japan to this...
...games, at $60 a pop, and you're out $900--a sum that may scare off consumers. And PS3 already frightens stock analysts. "We do not believe the machine provides incentives for buyers to buy a new machine ... except some game maniacs," Merrill Lynch analyst Hitoshi Kuriyama wrote in a recent report...
...games, at $60 a pop, and you're out $900-a sum that may scare off consumers. And PS3 already frightens stock analysts. "We do not believe the machine provides incentives for buyers to buy a new machine ... except some game maniacs," Merrill Lynch analyst Hitoshi Kuriyama wrote in a recent report. Sony has already cut the price of the basic model 20% in Japan...
...broad enough to risk alienating influential domestic constituencies in the name of better international relations. A close Koizumi advisor, who asked not to be identified, claims to be baffled by the visits, considering the political damage they are doing. Only Koizumi knows why he does what he does. Indeed, Hitoshi Tanaka, a former Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister under Koizumi, says that the most striking aspect of the Prime Minister's diplomacy is how autonomous it is, how much it is based on his own judgments rather than on the advice of those around...
...with a broad slate of communications and entertainment offerings, including Internet-based calling and even cable-TV-style video services. NTT may be big and rich, but the company "is not used to thinking competitively and reacting quickly" to exploit new business opportunities, says Credit Suisse First Boston analyst Hitoshi Hayakawa...