Sentence examples for nippon from inspiring English sources

They were interested in how the firm uses data derived from the cards to understand not only what people are buying, but also how changes in lifestyle can affect shopping habits.Peter Wray, a British retail consultant who advised Zen Nippon on Tesco's loyalty system, says its approach sets it apart from the co-op industry internationally, which tends to analyse only what it sells wholesale.

Sure enough, Nippon Foundry's fab in the hills of Tateyama, across the bay from Tokyo, is doing well.

Soldiers burning with fascist zeal were assassinating government moderates in a bid to rekindle the traditional "spirit" of Nippon.

A foreign buyer for Nippon has not been ruled out.NatWest responded lamely to Bank of Scotland's hostile bid with suggestions of a break-up through the disposal of three subsidiaries: Gartmore, Greenwich NatWest and Ulster Bank.

According to Jonathan Birchall, author of a recent book on football in Japan ("Ultra Nippon—How Japan Reinvented Football"), it is conceivable that Japan's professional league might ultimately fold altogether.China's professional league, established in 1995, is going through a crucial development phase.

From April 14th, it will levy a $100,000 surcharge on Japan's three largest shipping firms--Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Mitsui OSK Lines and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha--every time one of their container vessels docks in an American harbour.

It's just that some (1,278) of those hits came in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball and some (2,722) were struck in Major League Baseball.

IT IS only 18 years old, and its name is innocuous Nippon Kaigi simply means "Japan Conference".

This is a recognition by Nippon Kaigi, says Tomomi Yamaguchi at Montana State University, that changing the attitudes of women, many of whom admire Japan's long-standing pacifism, will be crucial.Nippon Kaigi gives nationalists in China and South Korea an excuse to claim that Japanese militarism is on the rise again.

In 2007 lobbying by the association and Nippon Kaigi helped to persuade the government to make April 29th a national holiday in honour of Hirohito, the emperor of Japan during the war.Even opponents are impressed at how reactionaries have quietly transformed the landscape of Japanese politics.

Nippon Kaigi is lobbying for Japan's admissions of war guilt to be reversed this year, the 70th anniversary of the country's surrender.A closely allied group is the Shinto Association of Spiritual Leadership.