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...died en route to a hospital in another city. In 2007, the percentage of cases that require immediate medical attention within total emergency transportation for the year was 11% for the general population, 1% for maternal cases, and 8% for children. "These [numbers] are not high," says James Kondo, president and vice chairman of Health Policy Institute, Japan, a Tokyo-based healthcare think-tank, "but when things go wrong in these areas, it could be fatal." The number of emergency transportation cases for Japan hit 4.92 million in 2007, and the number of serious emergency cases continues to increase...
...realm of Hollywood films. Today's high-end video games often feature unreleased tracks or already famous compositions from established artists.Before its recent leap into the broader music world, game music was an insular genre, one which made the careers of aspiring composers like Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka and Koji Kondo in Japan. Only in his early twenties when he joined Nintendo in 1983, Kondo brought his classical training (and his love for Western rock music) to the "Mario" and "Zelda" franchises, and crafted some of the most memorable tunes to grace early consoles, even with a drastically limited palette.With only...
...ills is not bad debt disposal or any of the other macho macroeconomic fixes currently capturing all the attention, but structural reform designed to remove governmental barriers to free-market competition at the domestic corporate level. "You can clean up the banks' balance sheets all you want," says James Kondo, a consultant at McKinsey & Co. who helped produce a recent study that remains one of the most comprehensive looks yet at Japan's productivity gap. "But until you change the environments companies operate in, the same problems are going to keep returning. Right now, people are just treating the symptoms...
...devastation caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Instead visitors will see the fuselage of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress plane that flew the Hiroshima mission, and a videotape of its crew. While Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama called the decision ``regrettable,'' Hiroshima survivor Koshiro Kondo was more emphatic: ``We had hoped that the feelings of the people of Hiroshima might have gotten through to the American people...
...appears that Harvard Real Estate (HRE)--which commissioned the ill-fated project--had ambitious plans for the $100,000 sign. The sculpture's designer, Wendy Kondo, noted in September that HRE officials worked to get a variance from the Cambridge Zoning Board in order to construct the special sign in Holyoke Center. "We wanted something that wasn't just a sign, but that would be a landmark for the Square," Kondo said...