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Toshinori Iwasawa
Managing Director,
ABeam Consulting

Born: February 4th 1957
Constituency: Tottori Prefecture, 1st district
Party: LDP (Tsushima faction)
Years in Diet: 22
Key posts: Minister of Defense (2007-present),

World War II caused tremendous environmental damage to Japan, the majority of the country being forested land.

For the entire year of 2007, Japan’s Nikkei index was down 11.1%, closing at 15,307.78 points.

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Furniture from Hida cedar

Plus: Our Recruitment Special Feature

Mar/Apr 2008
No. 76

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A few years back, there was an incident when a supermarket accidently sold beef of faked origins and hence needed to pay massive refunds.

Photography by David Coll Blanco

Still enjoying the popularity gained from the movie Lost in Translation, Tokyo’s most famous luxury hotel is the Park Hyatt in Shinjuku.

Enter Don Quijote, a chain of one-stop discount shops that offers more than just no-frills low prices, established in Tokyo in 1980.

Said CDOs are then sold on with badged credit ratings in the debt markets to players (banks, investment houses, municipalities, pension funds, etc.) around the world who do not necessarily appreciate