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Japan FSA to Beef Up Share Acquisition Disclosure Rules
Black Enterprise - New York,NY,USA
... Taking advantage of the ambiguity, an investment fund led by shareholder
activist Yoshiaki Murakami has massively bought Hanshin Electric Railway
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Sports calendar
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
Collegiate Summer League, doubleheader, Osaka Gakuin University vs. Hawai'i
Island Movers, 5 pm and 7:30 pm at Les Murakami Stadium. No admission
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WashPost Reporter Tosses Jon Stewart Into Oil Profit Story
NewsBusters - USA
... Comedy Central's Jon Stewart. Okay, I don't, and The Washington Post's
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The rebel writer
Jerusalem Post - Israel
Haruki Murakami would seem the very picture of the Japanese writer-prophet.
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Contemporary Art Draws on Comics' Power
Wall Street Journal (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
... Takashi Murakami, 44 years old, has made his own world of comic figures,
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Plotting the stages of a writing life
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
If you tell a Japanese critic that, for the average youngish British reader,
Haruki Murakami pretty much is modern Japanese literature, then he or
she will ...
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Please support DVD Times by ordering through our partners
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Based very closely on a short story by Haruki Murakami, the character of
Tony Takitani is typical of the solitary protagonists that feature in
most of the ...
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In 80 Tagen um die Welt
ORF.at - Wien,Austria
... When I finished reading "Kafka on the shore" by Haruki Murakami, it
became gradually clear to me that for many years I had been avoiding Japan
and most things ...
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Business Update
The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,Japan
... Imperial Hotel Tokyo is offering a special event, titled "Nobuo Murakami's
Life Is a Full Course Dinner," in commemoration of the first anniversary
of the ...
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Hit List: Takashi Murakami
Wall Street Journal (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
By JACOB HALE RUSSELL. Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami's work sits
on the divide between fine art and mass commerce. To many ...
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BOJ adopts new rules for execs' asset holdings, disclosures
Mainichi Daily News - Japan
... its internal rules after strong public criticism of an investment of
10 million yen made by Fukui in a fund set up by disgraced investor Yoshiaki
Murakami. ...
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posted by camac  # 3:58 下午 0 comments

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami, trans Philip ...
Independent - London,England,UK
One of the earliest stories in Haruki Murakami's career-spanning new collection
concerns an idle young man who goes along to a seminar by a cake company
which ...
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Matsuzakaya Seeks Murakami Fund-Held Shares Via Public Tender ...
Black Enterprise - New York,NY,USA
... it will launch a public tender offer to buy back up to 10 percent of
its outstanding shares, in a move believed to purchase a stake held by
the Murakami Fund. ...
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Operator of the Murakami Fund Revealed Why He Fled out of Japan
JIN BN - Tokyo,Japan
Yoshiaki Murakami, Chief of Murakami Fund moved his entire investment fund
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Murakami and Tremain on Frank O'Connor shortlist
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... Also better known as a novelist is Haruki Murakami who has made the
shortlisted with his latest, critically acclaimed, collection, Blind Willow
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Japan's Yosano Says Fukui's Fund Investment a `Social' Issue
Bloomberg - USA
... Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Kaoru Yosano said Bank of Japan
Governor Toshihiko Fukui's investment in a fund operated by Yoshiaki Murakami,
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Reading the reviews
dogmatika - Belfast,UK
... Reviewing Haruki Murakami's Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Tom Deveson
writes: "Murakami?s fictional world is extraordinary, but within the
indisputable and ...
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BOJ faces tough road after rate hike
Mainichi Daily News - Japan
... Toshihiko Fukui has been pounded by criticism over his controversial
investment in a fund set up by disgraced shareholder activist Yoshiaki
Murakami. ...
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PI, union tentatively agree on contract in record time
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... time for everybody and given the uncertainty (regarding the paper's
future), we got the best agreement we could," said reporter Kery Murakami,
a member of the ...
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BoJ ends zero interest rate policy
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... "There is no change in my intention.". The governor has been wildly
assailed over his investment seven years ago in the now-notorious Murakami
fund. ...
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Batters up on the ?Net
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
... They were taken at Les Murakami Stadium, home of the UH Rainbow baseball
team. Each is accompanied by one of Blazejack's reflections on the National
Pasttime. ...
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Poll slams BOJ governor
Shanghai Daily - Shanghai,China
... The results come amid mounting disaffection with Fukui, who acknowledged
he had invested in a fund founded by Yoshiaki Murakami, who was arrested
last month on ...
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Motorist Dies After Flipping Van On I-75
WHIOtv.com - Dayton,Ohio,USA
... Troopers said Mayumi Murakami, of Englewood, lost control of her van,
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Poll: Most Want BOJ Governor Should Resign
MSN Money - USA
... The results come amid mounting disaffection with the Fukui, who acknowledged
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Survey: 72% say Fukui should resign
The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,Japan
Toshihiko Fukui should resign from his post, while 81 percent were not
convinced by his explanation of his investment in the so-called Murakami
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BOJ will face flak over rate action -- or inaction
The Japan Times - Japan
... BOJ Gov. Toshihiko Fukui's investment in a fund led by Yoshiaki Murakami,
who has been charged with insider trading. "(The controversy ...
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Englewood woman dies in I-75 crash
Dayton Daily News (subscription) - Dayton,OH,USA
... Mayumi Murakami, 37, was driving in the left lane when she lost control
of the van around 7:30 am Troopers said the van went off the right side
of the road ...
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Horie key in takeovers: ex-CFO
The Japan Times - Japan
... Miyauchi has also reportedly provided prosecutors with key information
to help them build a separate case against Yoshiaki Murakami, founder
of the Murakami ...
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Tip foils street race
Whittier Daily News - Whittier,CA,USA
... Tim Murakami said he thinks it is on the decline. ... "It glorifies
it, but in our area I don't know how much drifting we've had," Murakami
said. ...
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Nissan North America names general counsel
MarketWatch - USA
... the legal affairs of Nissan affiliates throughout the US and supervise
Nissan North America's legal department as the replacement of Joy Murakami
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New BOJ rules ban its execs from most types of investment
The Japan Times - Japan
... Fukui has been under fire for retaining an investment in a fund founded
by Yoshiaki Murakami, who was charged with insider trading last month,
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BOJ to Set New Internal Rules on Officials' Trading This Month
Bloomberg - USA
... officials' financial trading to restore its credibility since Fukui
last month said he invested 10 million yen ($87,000) in a fund founded
by Yoshiaki Murakami ...
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A hole in the middle of the Pacific
Guardian Unlimited - UK
by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel. It takes
a certain amount of guts to write a whole story about vomiting. ...
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The true tale of a legendary chef
The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,Japan
... The drama, adapted from a 1996 book of the same title by freelance
writer Yo Sato, features the life of Nobuo Murakami (1921-2005), who was
known as a pioneer ...
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Bank of Japan to bar officials from holding stakes in private ...
Forbes - USA
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Panel to suggest BOJ asset disclosure
The Japan Times - Japan
... Toshihiko Fukui came under fire for his investment in a fund set up
by Yoshiaki Murakami, who was recently charged with insider trading. ...
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BOJ finds more consumers seeing high prices
Antara - Antara,Indonesia
... remained almost unchanged apparently because the survey was conducted
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Haruki Murakami says he's worried about Japanese nationalism
Mainichi Daily News - Japan
HONG KONG -- Famed Japanese author Haruki Murakami says he's worried about
nationalism in his home country and plans to incorporate an anti-nationalist
theme ...
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Looking East
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
... Takashi Murakami is assured of his place in that future, after his
triumphant collaboration in that same year with Vuitton, which brought
kawaii (cute) into ...
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
Bookslut - Chicago,IL,USA
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AV Rajwade: Japanese monetary policy
Business Standard - India
... The latest big fish to be caught in the net (this time not by FSA,
but by criminal investigators) has been Yoshiaki Murakami, a star, if
controversial, fund ...
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Murakami hits out at Japanese nationalism
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Haruki Murakami has spoken about his fears for his country amid a rise
in Japanese nationalism, and revealed plans to deal with the issue in
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Commentary: Japan's non-savior
International Herald Tribune - France
... While he made his 10 million yen, or $85,800, investment in Yoshiaki
Murakami's fund in 1999, before returning to the BOJ, it created a conflict
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OhmyNews International - South Korea
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BOJ staff's average salary 12% higher than govt employees
Mainichi Daily News - Japan
... at a time when BOJ Governor Toshihiko Fukui is under fire for making
an investment in a fund set up by disgraced fund manager Yoshiaki Murakami
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Hankyu, Hanshin Shareholders OK Major Railway Merger
Black Enterprise - New York,NY,USA
... stake, or nearly 270 million Hanshin shares, to be acquired through
the 21-day tender offer includes a stake of some 47 percent held by the
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Hankyu-Hanshin rail merger gets shareholders' approval
The Japan Times - Japan
... Prefecture, Hanshin Electric executives began by apologizing for the
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Fukui didn't get favors: Orix chief
The Japan Times - Japan
Miyauchi was commenting on a media report that said Fukui invested 10 million
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The enemy within
Financial Times - London,England,UK
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