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Kanako Takahara
Kanako Takahara is a staff writer who has covered national politics, diplomacy, business and the economy at The Japan Times. A graduate of Sophia University, she is currently a national news editor.
BUSINESS
Jan 9, 2008
Sharp to bring forward expansion of LCD plant
Sharp Corp. will increase in July the liquid crystal display production capacity of its Kameyama No. 2 plant in Mie Prefecture to 90,000 sheets a month from the current 60,000 to cope with growing demand, President Mikio Katayama said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / THIS FOREIGN LAND
Jan 5, 2008
Assistant language teachers in trying times
Last of four parts
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 29, 2007
Watami empire built on concept of family 'izakaya'
Until Miki Watanabe opened his first Watami "izakaya" pub in April 1992 in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, such eateries were considered places for business workers and college kids to have a cheap drink and a few side dishes.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Dec 25, 2007
Whaling — for nationalism or science?
When it comes to whaling, Japan digs in its heels, as do antiwhaling nations and conservation groups.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Dec 25, 2007
Whaling — for nationalism or science?
When it comes to whaling, Japan digs in its heels, as do antiwhaling nations and conservation groups.
BUSINESS
Dec 15, 2007
Subprime woes dog the 'tankan'
The business confidence of major manufacturers dropped for the first time in three quarters in the Bank of Japan's latest "tankan" survey released Friday, reflecting pessimism as U.S. subprime-mortgage woes continue to cast a dark cloud over the Japanese economy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2007
Tenacity, chance imported Krispy Kreme craze
The long lines of people waiting for the taste of fresh glazed doughnuts don't seem to be getting any shorter at Krispy Kreme outlets in the Tokyo area, even after the U.S. doughnut chain's third store opened last month in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture.
BUSINESS
Dec 7, 2007
Dai-ichi Mutual Life to go public in 2010
Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co., one of Japan's leading life insurers, is planning to go public in early fiscal 2010, the company said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Nov 27, 2007
Business declines for life insurers
Reeling from an industrywide scandal involving the systematic nonpayment of insurance benefits, major life insurance companies saw new contracts fall in the six months to September, according to earnings reports released Monday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 23, 2007
JT, Nissin in tender offer for Katokichi
Japan Tobacco Inc. and instant noodle maker Nissin Food Products Co. announced Thursday they will acquire all the shares of scandal-tainted frozen food maker Katokichi Co. for ¥109 billion through a public tender offer.
BUSINESS
Nov 23, 2007
¥226 billion in subprime losses for banks here, survey finds
Japan's banks logged a combined ¥226 billion in losses due to the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis in the six months to September, the Financial Services Agency said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Nov 22, 2007
Top bank groups' subprime hit limited
Profits at Japan's three major banking groups fell in the six months to September as they suffered losses linked to U.S. subprime mortgage loan woes, according to their business results, the last of which was announced Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Nov 21, 2007
Most nonlife insurers see profit increase
Profits at most major nonlife insurers jumped in the six months to September, thanks partly to brisk gains from investments in stocks and funds that escaped the turmoil generated by the subprime housing loan crisis in the U.S., the companies said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2007
Sumitomo Mitsui logs 30% profit drop
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., Japan's third-biggest banking group by assets, said Monday its group net profit dropped 30 percent to ¥170.6 billion in the six months to September partly due to losses resulting from the U.S. subprime loan crisis.
BUSINESS
Nov 15, 2007
Subprime mess dents Mizuho pretax profit
Mizuho Financial Group Inc., Japan's No. 2 banking group by assets, said Wednesday its group pretax profit fell 24.7 percent to ¥399.2 billion in the six months to September, battered by the subprime mortgage crisis in the U.S.
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2007
BOJ leaves key rate unchanged amid U.S. subprime loan crisis
The Bank of Japan Policy Board kept its benchmark short-term interest rate at 0.5 percent Tuesday as the U.S. subprime mortgage loan crisis continues to impact the global markets.
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2007
U.S. recession fears lift yen, slam Nikkei
The yen surged to an 18-month high against the dollar Monday while the benchmark Nikkei index briefly dipped below 15,000 as fears mounted that ballooning subprime loan losses will trigger a recession in the U.S.
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2007
Consumer lenders back to black after gray-zone ills
Major consumer lenders returned to the black in the six months to September after bleeding billions of yen in business 2006 due to a legal revision requiring them to eliminate so-called gray-zone interest rates.
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2007
G.communication has grown quickly on M&As
Nagoya-based G.communication grp., the firm taking over part of the failed language school chain Nova Corp., has grown rapidly in the past few years via aggressive mergers and acquisitions.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2007
Nova fall just simple math: it bled red
A 330-sq.-meter office with a double bed, sauna and tea room was where Nozomu Sahashi, ousted president of Nova Corp., worked as the language school chain steadily teetered near bankruptcy over the past few years.
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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