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Lumileds Lighting, a San Jose, Calif., maker of high-brightness LEDs, announced it has opened a sales and technical support office in Tokyo. It will be managed by Norihide Yamada, former general manager of Agilent Laboratories Japan. . . . Jim Roper has been named director of defense/intelligence solutions sales, and John Lee has been appointed director of civilian and commercial sales at Space Imaging, a Denver, Colo., provider of satellite imagery to commercial and government markets. . . . Frederick Mullavey was named director of quality at Janos Technology Inc., a Townshend, Vt.-based precision optics manufacturer.