Word: nobuo
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...Uniqlo expects 2005 sales to surpass $3.5 billion, up slightly from 2004. To compete with Gap (3,000 stores; $16.3 billion in sales), Uniqlo needs to focus on differentiating itself, says A.G. Edwards & Sons analyst Bob Buchannan. In Japan, Uniqlo makes $80 million online, but Uniqlo USA CEO Nobuo Domae says it will stick to bricks in the States. "Unless the customer knows who we are by coming to the store, they won't buy the product." --By Coco Masters
...Detroit Symphony Orchestra performs Japanese composer Nobuo Uematsu's score for the video game Final Fantasy
...smell that I can't really describe.' Others smelled it too and edged away. By Kamiyacho station, 11 minutes after the strange man had boarded, commuters panicked ... 'I saw several dozen people on the platform who had either collapsed or were on their knees unable to stand up,' recalls Nobuo Serizawa, a photographer ... Said Kiyo Arai, a 22-year-old government employee who was stricken ... : 'We're just innocent, ordinary people. It frightens me to think how vulnerable...
...event that cried out for a symphonic requiem. So the music for the earliest video games was often simple and silly - there were beeps and buzzes, whines and whistles. Although one's pulse may have been quickened, real sentiment was never stirred. In those days, recalls composer Nobuo Uematsu, 42, "no one really paid attention to game music." Now, as video-game story lines and imagery grow complex enough to evoke deeper emotional responses, the music is evolving too. In Japan several composers, including Mamoru Samuragoch (Onimusha) and Yoko Shimomura (Legend of Mana), have won acclaim for writing big-screen...
...event that cried out for a symphonic requiem. So the music for the earliest video games was often simple and silly--there were beeps and buzzes, whines and whistles. Although one's pulse may have been quickened, real sentiment was never stirred. In those days, recalls composer Nobuo Uematsu, 42, "no one really paid attention to game music." Now, as video-game story lines and imagery grow complex enough to evoke deeper emotional responses, the music is evolving too. In Japan several composers, including Mamoru Samuragoch (Onimusha) and Yoko Shimomura (Legend of Mana), have won acclaim for writing big-screen...