Funabashi
Americannoun
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“Unfortunately, it’s an arms race,” said Yoichi Funabashi, founder of the Asia Pacific Initiative, part of the International House of Japan, a Tokyo think tank.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2023
"Funassyi, the anarchic pear fairy from Funabashi city, is equally popular, and is an unofficial mascot," the mascot man says.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2019
But Mr. Funabashi said that if Manila were to revoke its alliance with Washington, “that would have devastating impacts on regional stability.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2016
“Japan’s biggest weakness—its closed labor market—actually has benefited Japan very much in a paradoxical way,” said Yoichi Funabashi, who heads a private think tank in Tokyo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2016
Rokurobei, seeing that there was no help for it, went back to the village of Funabashi and communicated to the others what had occurred.
From Tales of Old Japan by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron Redesdale
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