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Patrick Rial
BUSINESS
Mar 13, 2010
Mitsui, Marubeni target lucrative water market
Trading houses Mitsui & Co. and Marubeni Corp. plan to up investments in water projects to benefit from global spending forecast to reach $1.2 trillion by 2025.
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2009
'Clean energy' plan may jump start NGK's sales
Japan's plan to use more renewable energy to fight climate change hinges on another technology — batteries as big as London buses to be hooked up to the power network at a cost of as much as ¥6 trillion.
BUSINESS
Jul 18, 2009
Cookpad recipe Web site sizzles in TSE debut
Cookpad Inc., Japan's largest recipe Web site, surged on its first day of trading Friday as investors snapped up shares of a company that is capitalizing on a shift in consumption habits amid the recession.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2009
Slump hits demand for haute couture
The first model to walk the runway during Japan Fashion Week strutted her stuff in the nude. She was also a robot — a high-tech gimmick in a fashion world struggling to retain attention as the global economy staggers through recession.
BUSINESS
Aug 27, 2008
Cash-flush Japan Inc. on the hunt for bargain acquisitions overseas
Japanese companies are increasing overseas acquisitions, using their cash hoards to snap up assets beaten down by the global credit crisis and economic slowdown.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 15, 2008
Japanese-type game show a hit in U.S.
A new Japanese export is luring U.S. consumers: television game shows that inflict pain, suffering and humiliation for a laugh.
BUSINESS
Jul 13, 2007
Small-caps seen staging comeback in wake of Livedoor affair
Shares of Japan's smallest listed companies, Asia's worst performers last year, are staging a comeback as tougher accounting standards revive confidence in earnings reports and consumer spending rebounds.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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