Given the secretive nature of preparations for Mr. Koizumi's visit, and with hints of discord showing in how the two nations discuss each other's priority issues, it is unclear if they are close to an agreement on compensation or, indeed, whether discussions have even progressed that far.
Many stores have been forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and some have even progressed to Chapter 7 liquidation.
Consequently, many therapeutic interventions have focused on targeting this abnormal proliferation, and some have even progressed to clinical trials.
There has even been progress over the Katyń massacre, in which Soviet secret police executed over 20,000 Polish officers during World War II.
That said, Mr Putin has even been making progress in Japan, whose relations with Russia are burdened by a 70-year-old grudge over the Soviet Union's occupation in the dying days of the second world war of four islands Japan regards as its own an issue that has blocked the signing of a peace treaty ending the war.
The dizzying progress has even some of today's cartographers, now at computer workstations instead of their familiar drafting tables, experiencing professional vertigo.
Defender Omar Gonzalez says Klinsmann's upbeat assessment of his team's chances of progressing has even gone as far as encouraging revised travel plans.
The average annual reduction has accelerated – in some countries it has even tripled – but overall progress is still short of meeting the global target of a two-thirds decrease in under-five mortality by 2015.
That the mensalão affair has even come to trial is progress: jail for corrupt politicians may still be unlikely, but it is no longer unthinkable.Meanwhile, greater transparency about public spending is making theft from the treasury harder.
AT&T has even stated there will be progress reports (to make sure that the networks aren't funded via the FCC's Connect America Fund) and there will even be an independent auditor to detail AT&T's compliance.
