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Japan Times
Features
Jun 19, 2005

Tomb raver

Teenage years are often a time of confusion. But for one 37-year-old who goes by the pen name Kajipon Maruko Zangetsu, it was a time of torment due to family problems and a majorly broken heart.
BUSINESS
Jun 18, 2005

McDonald's cuts forecast due to 'value strategy'

McDonald's Holdings Co. Japan on Friday announced a sharp downward revision of its earning forecast for the six months ending in June, dragged down by a steeper-than-expected drop in average sales per customer.
JAPAN
Jun 17, 2005

Top Aum figure, two others arrested over temp business

Tokyo police arrested Shigeru Sugiura, a top-ranking member of Aum Shinrikyo, and two other cult figures Thursday for allegedly sending group members to temporarily work at companies without a government license.
JAPAN
Jun 17, 2005

NPO chief, cohorts held over investment swindle

Police arrested the former head of a Tokyo nonprofit organization Thursday on suspicion of swindling group members through an investment scheme.
BUSINESS
Jun 17, 2005

Canon invests locally with new factory in Oita

Canon Inc. will build a large-scale factory in the city of Oita, where it will manufacture cartridges and ink for use in printers and photocopiers, a Canon spokesman said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 17, 2005

Tsutsumi accepts guilt as trial starts

Former real estate and resort tycoon Yoshiaki Tsutsumi pleaded guilty Thursday to insider trading and falsification of financial reports concerning Seibu Railway Co. shareholdings.
BUSINESS
Jun 16, 2005

Spam scams net suspension for connected Kyoto firms

Two Kyoto firms have been ordered to suspend business for three months because they failed to identify themselves or the nature of their e-mail when transmitting unsolicited commercial missives, a government official said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 16, 2005

Kirin, Yakult make healthy tieup

Kirin Brewery Co., Kirin Beverage Corp. and Yakult Honsha Co. said Wednesday they agreed to form a business alliance to jointly develop health foods and drinks.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Jun 15, 2005

The art that rocks the boat of war in Iraq

If you don't like U.S. President George W. Bush -- particularly if you don't support his war in Iraq -- then there is a new gallery exhibition in Tokyo that you will relish.
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2005

People taking shorter domestic trips

Japanese travelers spent fewer than two nights on domestic trips on average last year, according to an annual government report on tourism released Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2005

Shareholders' meetings poised for takeover debates

The season for general shareholders' meetings is just around the corner, and a growing number of companies plan to use them to propose measures against hostile takeovers.
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2005

Ex-Mitsui officials held in diesel filter scam

Tokyo police on Tuesday arrested two former Mitsui & Co. employees and a former executive of a Mitsui subsidiary on suspicion of fabricating test data to obtain official approval for a diesel particulate filter.
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2005

Yamato undercuts Japan Post price

Yamato Transport Co. will offer overseas delivery of printed material in the same amount of time Japan Post promises , but at a lower rate, company officials said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jun 12, 2005

Fuji TV to utilize Livedoor LAN under new alliance

Fuji Television Network Inc. has agreed with Livedoor Co. to use the Internet firm's new wireless local area network service as the first deal under their business alliance, sources said Saturday.
JAPAN
Jun 12, 2005

Dead hero's wife finally gets worker compensation

A Japanese man who died in an attempt to save two drowning women while he was on a business trip in China in 1997 has finally been granted workers' compensation, his wife's lawyer said Saturday.
Japan Times
Features
Jun 12, 2005

Retro points to a rosy retail future

When the four floors of the Nakano Broadway shotengai opened for business in October 1966, resident retailers went for a high-class image in the hopes of attracting a wealthy clientele.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 11, 2005

Indian growth must co-opt the bypassed

MANILA -- India is a paradox. The successes of a select group of sectors -- from information technology to industr and services -- are creating an urban elite showcased as the builders of a modern and vibrant country on the cusp of joining the major economic powers of the world.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 11, 2005

'Artistic space consultant' unites walls and works

Nob Hagiwara is a brave man indeed. How many top-rank executives decide one day to chuck it all in and pursue personal goals? Not many -- and especially not in Japan.
BUSINESS
Jun 11, 2005

New law to make firms report greenhouse gas emissions

The Diet passed a bill Friday to revise the current antiglobal-warming promotion law so that about 8,000 firms will have to report emissions of six greenhouse gases.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jun 11, 2005

Kiyomi Okukubo

Masaki Nakano, honorary professor of the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, described Kiyomi Okukubo as "unique, with shyness and flamboyancy existing together. Her rusticity is her quality." He guided her graduation thesis on Kiso lunch boxes. Her chosen theme becomes less surprising as Kiyomi...
JAPAN
Jun 11, 2005

Light-water reactors find new favor as breeder stalls

Japan plans to develop a next-generation light-water nuclear reactor to pursue the highest economic efficiency possible in the business, government sources said Friday.
BUSINESS
Jun 11, 2005

MMC hit sales target -- by selling to own dealers

Scandal-ridden automaker Mitsubishi Motors Corp. inflated its new vehicle sales figures in Japan in the last business year by selling about 10 percent to dealers instead of consumers, industry sources said Friday.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 10, 2005

Mikan a true giant for early NBA

NEW YORK -- No. 99 on my scorecard while growing up during the NBA's infancy, but No. 1 in almost everything else related to professional basketball, Mr. Basketball passed away last week at 80 when life is supposed to begin.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / COUNTER CULTURE
Jun 10, 2005

Black monolith rises in Harajuku

Tokyo is famed for its haphazard layout, with tatty old two-story structures nestling up against ultra-modern constructions, and areas seemingly designated for one type of business that are punctuated by anomalous residential or industrial premises.
BUSINESS
Jun 9, 2005

Trademark bills clear house panel

A House of Representative committee passed bills Wednesday to revise the unfair competition prevention law and strengthen trademark protection in Japan.
BUSINESS
Jun 8, 2005

Nissan launches MMC-made Otti in bid to up minicar sales

Nissan Motor Co. launched the Otti on Tuesday as its third entry in the minivehicle market.
BUSINESS
Jun 7, 2005

BOJ balance back in target range

The outstanding balance of current account deposits held by private financial institutions at the Bank of Japan returned Monday to the central bank's liquidity target range of 30 trillion yen to 35 trillion yen for the first time in three business days.
BUSINESS
Jun 7, 2005

Yokogawa Bridge chief to resign over bid scandal

Yokogawa Bridge Corp. said Monday that President Yasuo Harada will resign June 20 to take the blame for the company's role in rigging bids for public bridge construction projects.
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2005

Private-sector firms to process parking violations next year

Starting next June, police will shift the task of cracking down on parking violations to the private sector as part of efforts to privatize administrative duties related to law enforcement.
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.
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.
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.
Japan investigating Amazon for allegedly bullying other businesses
Packages move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon warehouse
Tokyo’s take on that viral chocolate from Dubai
Cafe N°_5's take on the Dubai chocolate craze that has been circulating on social media over the past few months is a mix of bitter and sweet.
‘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.
China defense minister being investigated for corruption, report says
Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun attends the opening ceremony of the Xiangshan Forum at the Beijing International Convention Center on Sept. 13. Dong is the third consecutive incumbent or former defense chief to be probed over alleged corruption.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.

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