"We want to avoid being called merchants of death, " says Akihisa Nagashima, a pro-defense Democratic Party member of Japan's lower house.
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Also in Milan, Panasonic and Akihisa Hirata teamed up to produce "Energetic Energies, " a 30-meter-long cityscape covered in solar panels.
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But Akihisa Nagashima, one of his advisers, says he does not expect Mr Noda, the son of an officer, to let his own views undermine Japan's national interest.