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BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2011

Nissan targets 8% share of global market in six years

Nissan Motor Co. CEO Carlos Ghosn said Monday the automaker aims to achieve a global market share of 8 percent by the business year ending in March 2017 by focusing on rapidly expanding emerging markets.
Reader Mail
Jun 26, 2011

Thrilled to have made the trip

When disaster struck Japan on March 11, the whole world gasped over media news of the horror. We prayed every day for your great country to be spared further pain. The loss was and is inestimable.
Reader Mail
Jun 26, 2011

All the news facts except 'who'

Regarding the June 22 Kyodo article, "Minami Sanriku (Miyagi Prefecture) must pay rent on temporary facility": Why didn't the reporter mention which construction company owns the buildings, and who is demanding rent?
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jun 26, 2011

Hearn the Westerm misfit finally found himself at home in Meiji Japan

What does it mean to be an expatriate, particularly when you feel more at home and assimilated in an adopted country than in your own?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 24, 2011

Joyful Honda and the rise of the car-centric 'home center'

Are American-styled home centers Japan's retail model for the future?
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2011

Sharp vows to boost green sales

Sharp Corp. will bolster the sales of energy-saving home electronics products, including those using LEDs, because of electricity shortages this summer, President Mikio Katayama said Thursday at the company's shareholders' meeting.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jun 24, 2011

Noh theaters to present English performance

'Pagoda," a unique English-language noh play that premiered to packed houses in Europe in 2009 is touring Tokyo and Kyoto on June 28 and 30, respectively.
Reader Mail
Jun 23, 2011

Core problems with nuclear fuel

After reading Shinji Fukukawa's June 17 article, "Triple disaster proves need for an industrial revolution," I feel compelled to comment. There is no such thing as "safe" nuclear generation of power. Starting and containing nuclear fission reactions with concentrated fissile material is inherently dangerous....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 23, 2011

Changing the climate of architecture

Hokkaido-born architect Jun Igarashi seems to be a bit out of his comfort zone in the stultifying humidity of Tokyo. As he chats in the Toto Gallery, where he is holding his first solo exhibition, he explains that he's accustomed to the cooler and more temperate climate of his northern prefecture, which...
BUSINESS
Jun 22, 2011

Nation needs nuclear power for main energy source: Kepco head

Japan needs nuclear power as its main energy source and shouldn't follow European examples in banning new reactors, according to Shosuke Mori, chairman of Kansai Electric Power Co., the nation's second-biggest utility.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Jun 21, 2011

Sharing Tepco's bill; family's tough choice

People must share Tepco burden Re: "A victim of Tepco's yakuza-style extortion" (Have Your Say, June 14) by Blues Bowman:
BUSINESS
Jun 21, 2011

Nissan also to break JAMA electricity pact

Kyodo Nissan Motor Co. may operate some plants Thursdays and Fridays if production falls short of demand despite an industrywide plan to close plants on those days instead of Saturdays and Sundays starting in July, a senior official said Sunday.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jun 21, 2011

Permanent residents, mind the 'gap years' in your pension payments

In response to our previous pension articles, "Japan pension answers often case-specific" (April 19) and "Pension 'gap years' and missed payments" (May 10), we've received several reader inquiries and comments regarding kara kikan, or "gap years."
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Jun 19, 2011

The national sport; State to take over electric power firms; flooding kills 235; concerns over Chernobyl accident

100 YEARS AGOSaturday, June 19, 1911
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Jun 19, 2011

Anti-whalers should just stop ...

Nearly a quarter of a century since Japan began its controversial "research whaling" cull off Antarctica, there was a major development this year in the annual contest of wills between whalers and conservationists.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 18, 2011

Annals of Cheap: 32-inch flat screen TVs

Prices of TV sets, especially smaller models, are now as low as they'll ever be.
BUSINESS
Jun 18, 2011

BOJ can avoid more stimulus: Muto

The economy can recover from the March earthquake without additional asset purchases by the central bank because the slump isn't too severe, former Bank of Japan Deputy Gov. Toshiro Muto said.
BUSINESS
Jun 18, 2011

Hitachi joins Lithuania nuke project

Hitachi Ltd., Japan's second-largest maker of nuclear reactors, is ready to supply technology and invest in Lithuania's planned atomic plant, the company's president said.
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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