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    Suidobashi Heavy Industry's Kuratas

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    Kogoro Kurata and Wataru Yoshizaki show off their 13-foot, 4-ton mech at Tokyo's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation.

    By Jeff Blagdon

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    On the decline of Japanese industry, Kurata says, "Japanese people are good with technology, but I hear people say that they don't know what to make... You can't really make much new without some kind of catalyst."