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...feel very insecure with the Democratic Party of Japan," said 65-year-old voter Shuji Ueki. "They don't have a record...
...Just because the quake was double the quake-resistant standard, it doesn't automatically mean a threat," says Shuji Kawahara, an earthquake safety inspection official in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's nuclear safety department. "The structures are built to withstand much much more," he said. How much more? "We don't know," says Kawahara...
...world is a brighter place because Shuji Nakamura is not easily discouraged. In 1993 he astonished the scientific community with the first successful blue light-emitting diode, or LED. The blue LED was the last step in the creation of lighting's holy grail, the brilliant white LED--an ultra-efficient successor to Thomas Edison's incandescent lightbulb, circa...
AWARDED. An $8.1 million settlement to SHUJI NAKAMURA, 50, engineer who helped Nichia Corp. develop the blue light-emitting diode (LED), a semiconductor device used in everything from cell phones to traffic lights; by Tokyo's High Court; in Tokyo. Piqued by a $200 bonus for what Nichia claimed was merely a contribution to a team project, Nakamura sued his former employer in 2001, seeking a greater share of the profits from its LED patents and winning $194 million from a district judge. Although that decision was overturned, the $8 million payout, which Nakamura reluctantly accepted, marks the largest-ever...
...prolonged slump. The mainland's neighbors have already been warily monitoring Beijing's efforts to cool overheated sectors such as real estate, fearful that clampdowns on credit and investment could crimp their China trade. Now there's a new worry: "China's dependence on oil is very high," says Shuji Shirota, chief economist at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in Tokyo. "If [oil] prices choked off growth in China, that would have a big effect on Japan...