Word: yamagata
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...consortium that bought MGM and its valuable film library. In the first three quarters of 2004, Sony's U.S. operations kicked in 30% of the company's revenue. "Stringer got this job with the expectations that he will accomplish something similar throughout the entire company," says Yuichiro Yamagata, editor in chief of the Weekly Toyo Keizai business magazine...
...other variants, now known as types B and C. Individual strains are named for the place where they are first identified. Most of this season's flu has been triggered by a nasty strain of influenza A, called A- Shanghai. A few cases of A-Taiwan and B-Yamagata (Japan) have also turned...
Kameo Ito, chief of the government's Yamagata meteorological observatory, bases his theory on a close study of the air waves from U.S. and Soviet tests. When a bomb is exploded on the ground or near it, says Ito, the shock waves spreading upward into the lower stratosphere are lengthened and delayed by air conditions there. Eventually they are refracted downward and reach microbarographs in Japan a few minutes behind the shorter waves that have passed directly through the lower atmosphere...
...Aritomo Yamagata, who almost single-handed created Japan's army and learned from Germany, "with consequences for the world," the usefulness of making that army free of civil authority; who, above all others, rendered the constitution meaningless...
...Phoenix Hall of the Imperial Palace the Imperial Poem Reading was conducted with the ceremony and pageantry of an English Coronation. The great Princes Tokugawa and Yamagata- names ringing in Japanese ears like Gladstone and Wellington-were in attendance with Princes of the Blood and members of the Imperial Family. The appropriate choral performers and their leader, all schooled to emit the 31 syllables of the incredibly stylized tanka in exactly so many breaths, were at hand...