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JAPAN
Oct 29, 1997

Massive Dow Jones rally sparks Nikkei rebound

The Tokyo Stock Exchange staged a strong rebound Wednesday amid ringing reports of a massive rally on Wall Street overnight.
JAPAN
Oct 29, 1997

Hun Sen to visit Japan for checkup, talks

Hun Sen to visit Japan for checkup, talks>Cambodian Second Prime Minister Hun Sen will visit Japan between Nov. 5 and 10, Foreign Ministry officials said.
JAPAN
Oct 29, 1997

Bomb blast in Shinjuku may have targeted Komei

Bomb blast in Shinjuku may have targeted Komei>A bomb that exploded early Wednesday morning in Tokyo, destroying an iron gate to a house, may have been aimed at a Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly member of the Komei party, police said.
JAPAN
Oct 29, 1997

Hino blames economy, Asian currency woes for eroding profits

Hino blames economy, Asian currency woes for eroding profits>Hino Motors Ltd. on Wednesday said its profits for the first half of the 1997 business year were eroded by the sluggish domestic economy and the recent Southeast Asia currency crisis that greatly affected Thailand.
JAPAN
Oct 29, 1997

Japan ready to bolster Indonesia rupiah

Japan is prepared to offer bilateral financial support to help stabilize the weakening Indonesian rupiah, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto told Indonesian President Suharto during a telephone conversation Wednesday.
JAPAN
Oct 29, 1997

Defense hits probing of confessed 'cycle-by' assaults

Defense hits probing of confessed 'cycle-by' assaults>A 20-year-old man who confessed to "cycle-by" attacks on women in Tokyo and Saitama prefectures earlier this year denied in his first trial hearing Wednesday that he intended to kill a man with whom he had been living.
JAPAN
Oct 29, 1997

Tokyo plans emissions meeting to scrabble up support ahead of Kyoto

Tokyo plans emissions meeting to scrabble up support ahead of Kyoto>The government is planning to hold a two-day international meeting beginning Nov. 8 in Tokyo as part of efforts to form an international consensus on a reduction target for greenhouse gas emissions, Chief Cabinet Secretary Kanezo Muraoka...
JAPAN
Oct 29, 1997

Taxes not central to LDP's economic stimulus plan

Taxes not central to LDP's economic stimulus plan>The second set of economic stimulus measures planned by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party will probably focus on such issues as using more funds from the government fiscal investment and loan program rather than detailed tax deduction proposals, party...
JAPAN
Oct 29, 1997

Asia-Pacific journalists discuss defense guideline issues

Asia-Pacific journalists discuss defense guideline issues> Concern among Asian countries about the revisions last month to the Japanese-U.S. defense cooperation guidelines has still not eased.
JAPAN
Oct 29, 1997

Asia-Pacific companies turn to head-hunting

Asia-Pacific companies turn to head-hunting>People, not just products, are the key to success for firms operating in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a Harvard Business School professor.
JAPAN
Oct 29, 1997

September industry output up 1.6%

September industry output up 1.6%>Japan's industrial output in September rose 1.6 percent from the previous month, bringing the production index to 102 against 100 for the 1990 base year, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry said in a preliminary report released Wednesday.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 1997

Electronics makers post mixed first-half results

Three of the nation's major electronics firms posted mixed business results for the first half of the 1997 business year through September 30.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 1997

Government continues push to eliminate racketeers

The government will continue calling on the private sector to cut all ties with "sokaiya" corporate extortionists, the Cabinet agreed Tuesday.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 1997

Local poll loss has Shinshinto jittery

The defeat of a Shinshinto-backed candidate in the Miyagi gubernatorial race Sunday is still shaking the party, leaving its members worried about the Upper House election next summer.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 1997

TSE plunges to 16,312

The Tokyo Stock Exchange was shaken Tuesday by successive plunges in share prices around the globe; trading closed with the benchmark Nikkei average falling to 16,312.69, the lowest since July 1995.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 1997

Japan's PC market reaches a crossroads

The red warning light is flashing for the personal computer market.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 1997

Kobe mayor Sasayama back at work

KOBE -- Kazutoshi Sasayama returned to his office Tuesday to begin a third four-year term as Kobe mayor after beating two challengers in Sunday's mayoral election.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 1997

Change in investor attitude will spur on mutual funds

Staff writer Sweeping financial deregulation in Japan will require fund managers to improve their skills and necessitate a fundamental change in attitude among individual investors, according to the Japanese arm of Boston-based Putnam Investments Inc.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 1997

Transport chief regrets U.S. decision to collect shipping fines

Transport Minister Takao Fujii expressed strong regret Tuesday over the decision by the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission to collect fees from three Japanese shipping lines in retaliation for inefficient and costly harbor practices in Japan.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 1997

Four Daiwa executives arrested in Koike affair

Tokyo prosecutors arrested four executives of Daiwa Securities Co. on Tuesday for allegedly compensating a "sokaiya" corporate extortionist for investment losses in violation of the Commercial Code and the Securities and Exchange Law.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 1997

Business leaders voice concern over stock crisis

Following the sharp worldwide decline in stock prices, Japan's business leaders on Tuesday expressed serious concern over the nation's economic prospects and called for effective government measures to shore up the country's economy.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 1997

Forum focuses on inventors' rights

OSAKA - The first-ever conference on intellectual property rights sponsored by private citizens from member nations of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation opened here Tuesday with the aim of proposing a user-friendly system for corporate and individual inventors.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 1997

Ex-U.S. official urges 'true' reform

Ex-U.S. official urges 'true' reform> Japan must take the plunge and carry out true deregulation if the nation wants to revive its "half dead" economy and achieve healthier trade relations with the rest of the world, Clyde Prestowitz, a former senior official of the U.S. Commerce Department, said Oct....
JAPAN
Oct 27, 1997

JR's first motorwoman at freight train controls

JR's first motorwoman at freight train controls> The Japan Railway group's first female locomotive engineer, Maki Ishimura, 23, climbed into the driver's seat early Oct. 27 aboard a train at Tokyo's Shinagawa Freight Terminal and prepared to depart for the Kawasaki Freight Station in Kanagawa Prefecture....
JAPAN
Oct 27, 1997

Steel industry worries about tax

Steel industry worries about tax> The nation's steel industry on Oct. 27 voiced firm opposition to a carbon dioxide emissions tax, warning that it would seriously damage Japanese companies' competitiveness in global markets.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 1997

Automaker looks to bring Mercedes touch to other segments

Automaker looks to bring Mercedes touch to other segments> Staff writer
JAPAN
Oct 27, 1997

Miyagi hard loss to swallow for Shinshinto's Ozawa

Miyagi hard loss to swallow for Shinshinto's Ozawa> Staff writer
JAPAN
Oct 27, 1997

Improved consumption key to recovery, BOJ says

Improved consumption key to recovery, BOJ says> Economic growth has been slowing since April and business sentiment has weakened, but there are no signs of a sharp decline in corporate profits, employment and income conditions, the Bank of Japan said Oct. 27.
JAPAN
Oct 24, 1997

More Mitsubishi firms tied to 'sokaiya' payoffs

At least three more firms affiliated with the Mitsubishi group are suspected of sending funds to a bank account linked to two "sokaiya" corporate extortionists arrested earlier this week over illegal payoffs from Mitsubishi Motors Corp., police sources said Oct. 24.The three firms are Mitsubishi Electric...
JAPAN
Oct 24, 1997

Lawmakers seek meeting with Kim Jong Il

Representatives from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its two non-Cabinet allies expressed their wish Oct. 24 to meet with Kim Jong Il, general secretary of North Korea's ruling Korean Workers' Party, when their delegation visits Pyongyang in mid-November.Hiromu Nonaka, acting secretary general...

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