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Losing By Winning.
Candidate Yasuo Tanaka is a study in perpetual motion. He hugs babies at train stations, delivers poignant sound bites along the banks of gurgling rivers and barnstorms through sweltering mountain villages clad in his trademark Versace suits--often sprinting from soapbox to motorcade to shave seconds off his schedule. Last week he was a man on a populist mission: trying to win a by-election for governor of Nagano, a position he lost on July 5 when the prefecture's pave-and-build assemblymen, exercising their authority, booted him out of office following a no-confidence vote. They were not happy that Tanaka had canceled two massive dam projects. As NEWSWEEK went to press, ...
- Circuitries of color: a pioneer of the postwar avant-garde in Japan, Atsuko...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Koplos, Janet November 1, 2004 700+ words
...who spent two years in Japan researching Gutai, and...History, who also curated Tanaka's Japanese retrospective...the context in which Tanaka's work was initially...following the defeat of Japan's militarist regime in World War II. Tanaka's work is a surprising...
- An employee of Japan's Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry displays a pure...
- Picture from: Getty Images TORU YAMANAKA August 12, 2009 700+ words
...YAMANAKA Getty Images 08-12-2009 An employee of Japan's Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry displays a pure... Full Size JPG (2436 KB) An employee of Japan's Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry displays a pure gold fan at a showroom...
- Dialpad Communications Launches Dialpad Japan; Dr. Toshimitsu Tanaka Named...
- Press release article from: Business Wire March 14, 2001 700+ words
...opening of Dialpad Japan, Inc., an independently...Tokyo. Toshimitsu Tanaka, Ph.D., was...experience, Dr. Tanaka has the proven skills...class operation in Japan that caters to the...to joining Dialpad Japan, Tanaka served as vice president...
- INVOICE TO ACQUIRE BILLING OPS OF JAPAN'S TANAKA COMMERCE.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News February 6, 2004 700+ words
...acquire the one-stop telecommunications billing operations of Tanaka Commerce Co. For a price of 200 million yen (US$1.88 million...wireless. Discounting is also part of the service package. Tanaka Commerce's one-stop billing service is targeted mainly at...
- JAPAN'S TANAKA KIKINZOKU REPORTS 35 PCT DECLINE IN GOLD SALES IN 2003.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News January 30, 2004 700+ words
TOKYO, Jan 30 Asia Pulse - Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo KK announced Thursday that the volume of gold bullion sold in 2003 fell 35 per cent from a year earlier. The company...
- Building bridges between Lanka and Japan: Rev. Bhikkhuni Ryugen Tanaka.
- Newspaper article from: Yasodhara-Newsletter on International Buddhist Women's Activities Mapitigama, Prematilaka October 1, 2004 700+ words
Rev. Bhikkhuni Ryugen Tanaka, head of the chain of Ryugen temples in Japan, passed away recently. An admirer...President J.R. Jayewardene, Rev. Tanaka, had a prominent place among the people of Japan who constantly showed their gratitude...
- Lightning Rod.(Japan's foreign minister Makiko Tanaka)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Wehrfritz, George Takayama, Hideko November 19, 2001 700+ words
...took the helm as Japan's top diplomat last April, Makiko Tanaka told NEWSWEEK that...measured words later, Japan's first female...In recent weeks Tanaka's long-simmering...around the same time Japan's consul general...The cases validated Tanaka's crusade for transparency...
- An employee of Japan's jewelry shop Ginza Tanaka displays 1/10...
- Picture from: Getty Images TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA September 10, 2009 700+ words
...Getty Images 09-10-2009 An employee of Japan's jewelry shop Ginza Tanaka displays 1/10... Full Size JPG (2457 KB) An employee of Japan's jewelry shop Ginza Tanaka displays 1/10 (L) and 1/4 (R) oz...
Source: HighBeam Research, Losing By Winning.