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Yoshitsune, weeping, said, "To annihilate the Taira is a mere matter of days, but all time would not suffice to repay your devotion."
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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Fujisaki gave a keynote speech during a luncheon hosted by the Japan America Society of Colorado, which was also attended by Takashi Takahashi, vice governor of Yamagata Prefecture state, and Kozo Taira, Chairperson of the Yamagata Prefectural Assembly.
Gil Asakawa: Japan's Ambassador to U.S. Visited Denver for 25th Anniversary of Colorado-Yamagata Relationship Gil Asakawa 2011
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Asahi Shimbun/Reuters Ryo Taira, right, and an unidentified man lifted a porpoise out of a flooded rice field in Sendai on March 22 after it was swept in by the tsunami.
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Mr. Taira found the porpoise struggling in the shallow seawater, and after failing to net it, waded into the field.
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I caught up with frontman Artturi Taira last week, and asked about making Solar and gaining worldwide notoriety.
Jon Chattman: Sound Bites: Finland's Rubik and fun. Jon Chattman 2011
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Former Prime Minister Dr. Yukio Hatoyama and Rep. Tomoyuki Taira have called for nationalization of the TEPCO Fukushima nuclear plant, if only to know what really happened there because they have had difficulty accessing key documents from the company even while being prominent parliamentarians.
Sunil Chacko: Risk Management in Introducing High-Technologies Into High-Growth Markets Sunil Chacko 2012
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Fujisaki gave a keynote speech during a luncheon hosted by the Japan America Society of Colorado, which was also attended by Takashi Takahashi, vice governor of Yamagata Prefecture state, and Kozo Taira, Chairperson of the Yamagata Prefectural Assembly.
Gil Asakawa: Japan's Ambassador to U.S. Visited Denver for 25th Anniversary of Colorado-Yamagata Relationship Gil Asakawa 2011
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I caught up with frontman Artturi Taira last week, and asked about making Solar and gaining worldwide notoriety.
Jon Chattman: Sound Bites: Finland's Rubik and fun. Jon Chattman 2011
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Taira, the head of Rising, went to jail in the early 2000s for admitting to financing the promotion for his successful acts all through mob money.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Japanese Music: 2000-2009 2010
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From their excited exclamations, he understood that they believed these insects to be the reincarnated souls of ancient samurai, who had died in a great battle between the Minamoto and the Taira.
Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010
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