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BUSINESS
Aug 7, 2006

Pioneer sets new plasma TV plant

Pioneer Corp. said Sunday it will build a new plasma television manufacturing plant in Yamanashi Prefecture and have it up and running as early as the next business year, which starts in April.
COMMENTARY
Aug 7, 2006

An opportunity to mend ties

Intensive debate is under way ahead of the governing Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election next month to choose the successor to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. At issue is how to assess the reform policies of Koizumi -- now the third-longest reigning prime minister in the postwar years...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Aug 6, 2006

Welfare's not fair when it comes to single mothers

In show business, you can't look as if you made up your own labels. Only someone as big as Michael Jackson gets away with calling himself the King of Pop.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 5, 2006

'Gimme Wings' raises singer-songwriter's profile

Sixteen years ago, Benjamin Franklin wrote a song entitled "Feel Like a Bird." The lead song and the title of his first album, released June 17, is "Gimme Wings." "I guess that suggests I haven't got very far," he jokes. In fact he's come quite a distance, but with still a way to go.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2006

Gap in real estate prices between big, small cities continues to widen

The gap in land prices between large and small cities continues to widen even though the average price in select areas has moved higher for the first time in 14 years.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2006

Mizutani tax probe turns to Obayashi

Prosecutors probing a tax evasion case involving construction firm Mizutani Kensetsu Co. have questioned employees of general contractor Obayashi Corp. in connection with an airport project it subcontracted to Mizutani, according to investigation sources.
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2006

Softbank cuts ties with SBI Holdings

Internet and telecom conglomerate Softbank Corp. said Wednesday its group has ended its capital ties with SBI Holdings Inc., the holding company of the SBI Group firms, with the sale of its remaining 19.2 percent stake in SBI Holdings to Goldman Sachs Japan Ltd.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2006

Hokuetsu mulls defense against Oji takeover bid

Hokuetsu Paper Mills Ltd., the nation's sixth-largest paper maker, said Wednesday it has asked an independent panel whether it should take measures to thwart a hostile takeover bid launched by Oji Paper Co. the same day.
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2006

METI tells Paloma to resubmit heater report

The government demanded Tuesday that Paloma Industries Ltd. resubmit a report within a week on its probe into deadly carbon monoxide poisonings caused by defects in its gas water heaters.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 2, 2006

Retail gasoline prices nearing record high

Nippon Oil Corp. and other major oil companies raised wholesale prices of gasoline and other petroleum products Tuesday by 4 yen to 10 yen per liter from last month, primarily because of higher costs of crude oil.
BUSINESS
Aug 1, 2006

ANA weathers fuel price storm; sales, profit soar

All Nippon Airways Co. shrugged off higher jet fuel prices, reporting Monday that sales and operating and net profit all hit record highs in the first quarter of 2006.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Aug 1, 2006

Can NHK justify its huge collection costs?

NHK spends a massive 76.9 billion yen per year on its fee collection system, which equates to some 12.4 percent of the national broadcaster annual operating income.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 31, 2006

Is bigger better for European Union?

See related story EU membership sharpens Central, East Europe's competitive edge
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 31, 2006

EU membership sharpens Central, East Europe's competitive edge

See related story Is bigger better for European Union?
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2006

Engineering firm paid off gangsters: sources

Mizutani Kensetsu Co., involved in a tax evasion scandal, has provided around 1 billion yen of money under the table to gangsters, informed sources said Saturday.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jul 30, 2006

Time-capsule Tokyo along a street where I lived

In the early 1980s, my wife and I lived in a tiny flat in Soshigaya on the Odakyu Line in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward. The eldest three of our four children were born then, and I have only the fondest memories of pushing a pram up and down the kilometer-long shotengai (shopping street) between the station...
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2006

Mizutani Kensetsu, director charged

Mizutani Kensetsu Co. and its representative director, Shigeyuki Nakamura, were charged Friday with evading corporate taxes by hiding part of the firm's income in the business year through August 2003, prosecutors said.
BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2006

JAL's unannounced stock issue draws fire

Japan Airlines Corp. CEO Haruka Nishimatsu apologized Friday for not disclosing to stockholders its recent issue of new shares, which prompted JAL stock to plunge.
SOCCER
Jul 27, 2006

JFA plans U-21 friendlies

In a move to help mend political ties with China, the Japan Football Association said Tuesday the two nations and South Korea will play Under-21 international friendlies from August on a home-and-away format.
JAPAN
Jul 27, 2006

Man admits pulling scam to get PCs

A former employee of a Toshiba Corp. affiliate has been arrested on suspicion of swindling two clients out of 230 personal computers worth some 50 million yen, police officials said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jul 27, 2006

Nippon Life gets reprimand from FSA on policy problem

The Financial Services Agency said Wednesday it has reprimanded Nippon Life Insurance Co. for improper cancellation of its insurance policies and has given it a business-improvement order.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 27, 2006

Amazon Japan to launch online shopping mall

Major online book retailer Amazon Japan K.K. is approaching retailers in preparation for opening an online shopping mall, company officials said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jul 27, 2006

Online trading was hobby of Nikkei ad man

A Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. employee fired Tuesday after his arrest on suspicion of insider trading has told investigators that stock trading was his hobby and that he placed Internet orders from home and work -- sometimes at a rate of 100 or more per day -- sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jul 26, 2006

Nikkei staffer held for illicit trades

Prosecutors arrested an employee of Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. on Tuesday afternoon on suspicion of insider trading, investigative sources said.
BUSINESS
Jul 26, 2006

NEC to tie with Matsushita unit on cell phones

NEC Corp. and Panasonic Mobile Communications Co., a subsidiary of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., aim to form a 50-50 joint venture this autumn to develop new cell phone handsets, company officials said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jul 26, 2006

Aiful suspension takes toll on profit

Consumer loan firm Aiful Corp. reported a sharp year-on-year fall Tuesday in its group net profit for the April-June quarter, which was affected by a government order to suspend operations over coercive loan-collection practices.
Japan researchers develop a simple way to spot signs of Alzheimer's disease
In 2022, the number of elderly people with dementia in Japan reached 4.43 million, according to data from the health ministry.
Japan to overhaul tax exemption system for foreign visitors
The Ginza shopping district in Tokyo in August
Two dead after fire at Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi’s apartment
A fire broke out on the sixth floor of an apartment building where Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi resides on Wednesday in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward.
Real-life ‘Tokyo Swindlers’ ordered to pay ¥1 billion in damages
High-rise buildings in Tokyo. Through faking documents and passports a criminal group conspired to pose as the owner of a real-estate plot and buildings in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward in 2017, defrauding Sekisui House of ¥5.5 billion.
Real estate worth ¥25 trillion puts Japan companies in spotlight
Elliott Investment Management's stake in Tokyo Gas is centered around getting the utility to sell off its real estate holdings, including Shinjuku Park Tower, which houses the Park Hyatt Hotel Tokyo.
Hiroshi Kurosaki looks beyond Japan for heart-wrenching drama
Hiroshi Kurosaki’s Netflix series “Beyond Goodbye” centers on a woman (Kasumi Arimura, left) who discovers her dead lover’s heart saved the life of a quiet pianist (Kentaro Sakaguchi).
Japan researchers develop a simple way to spot signs of Alzheimer's disease
In 2022, the number of elderly people with dementia in Japan reached 4.43 million, according to data from the health ministry.
‘What Divides Us’ producer honors grandfather’s Hiroshima reportage
“What Divides Us" producer Cannon Hersey says his grandfather, who wrote about the aftermath of nuclear destruction in Hiroshima, never spoke about what he had seen while working with Japanese minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto to preserve the stories of survivors.
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.

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