Asakura

We particularly like the look of I Should Be Able to Meet a Kangaroo by Hisashi Asakura from the non-fiction section because, well everyone should.

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There was a song entitled "Asakura" which seems to have been popular in those days and was sung in the Court.

Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920

Mr. Asakura said he has noticed a growing sense of crisis in the mindsets of Japanese corporate executives.

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"I don't think we had seen something between big makers like Toshiba and Hitachi before," Mr. Asakura said.

Japan Fund on Prowl Atsuko Fukase 2011

In SF proper there is Asakura Hisashi, whose pen name was a riff on Arthur C. Clarke.

Japanese SF and English-language original SF « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2009

"The electronic-device industry is very important in Japan, so we offered a proposal to the companies and had deep discussions that took about a year," Mr. Asakura said.

Japan Fund on Prowl Atsuko Fukase 2011

Mr. Asakura, who worked for Carlyle Japan Partners as a managing director for nearly a decade, said he sees more investment opportunities in the electronics-manufacturing sector.

Japan Fund on Prowl Atsuko Fukase 2011

"All industries have responded to globalization, so we can't limit our investments to domestic companies only," INCJ Chief Operating Officer Haruyasu Asakura said during an interview, adding that the fund might consider acquiring a company abroad with foreign investors or creating a joint venture with them.

Japan Fund on Prowl Atsuko Fukase 2011

Norimitsu Onishi of NYT commented, 'Colonel Asakura, wants America to annihilate Tokyo with an atomic bomb so that Japan can be reborn; if Japan simply submits to America, Colonel Asakura says in one of the movie's most memorable lines: Japan will degrade itself and become a slave to the United States.

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Norimitsu Onishi of NYT commented, 'Colonel Asakura, wants America to annihilate Tokyo with an atomic bomb so that Japan can be reborn; if Japan simply submits to America, Colonel Asakura says in one of the movie's most memorable lines: Japan will degrade itself and become a slave to the United States.

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