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CULTURE / Art
Jun 9, 2011

World's third-largest art fair ups profile of Asian works

For Japanese artists in need of international exposure, Hong Kong, it seems, is their closest window to the world. Last month, the city's international art fair, ART HK 2011, now in its fourth year, attracted art-lovers from all over the world, including many from mainland China, where the booming economy...
BUSINESS
May 27, 2011

Platinum surplus seen jumping eightfold after quake

The global platinum surplus may jump eightfold after Japan's worst earthquake slashed car production, reducing the country's demand to the lowest level in 28 years, said the nation's top refiner.
BUSINESS
May 10, 2011

Mitsubishi Estate sees lower profit

Mitsubishi Estate Co., Japan's second-biggest developer, said Monday it expects profit to drop 14 percent this business year as apartment sales slow following a record earthquake.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2011

October-December GDP setback exceeds government estimate

The economy contracted more than the government initially estimated in the calendar fourth quarter because of a downward revision to capital investment and consumer spending.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 18, 2011

G-tokyo art fair hopes for another triumph

Although Tokyo is a major world city, its contemporary art scene lacks the allure of its peers. Japanese interest in contemporary art is growing, though, as evidenced by the record 50,000 visitors at last year's Art Fair Tokyo. However, sales remained at the 2009 level, a fraction of what big art fairs...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 18, 2011

Visit Tokyo's 'Frontline' for Japan's contemporary art

Shigeo Goto, director of Tokyo Frontline, a new art fair to start in Tokyo this year, calls himself an "outsider," meaning he considers himself not quite inside Tokyo's commercial "art scene."
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2011

Valentine's Day hits retailers' sweet spot

For 25-year-old Tokyo office worker Ryoko Ejiri, Valentine's Day is about boxes of heart-shaped chocolates. She's not getting them from admirers, she has to buy them for her bosses.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Feb 14, 2011

More reasons to spend money on chocolate, as well as reasons not to

Expressing your true feelings, and obligations, with chocolate is a tricky affair.
BUSINESS
Feb 4, 2011

Toshiba's glasses-free 3-D TVs flop

Toshiba Corp., the first maker of 3-D televisions that don't require the use of special glasses, sold fewer than half the sets it targeted in the initial month of sales.
BUSINESS
Jan 28, 2011

Toyota cut global output last month

Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday its worldwide production of vehicles fell for the fourth straight month in December, dented by falling output in Japan after subsidies for green cars expired.
BUSINESS
Jan 22, 2011

Shiseido plans 15% annual China growth

Cosmetics maker Shiseido Co. is seeking to increase sales in China by 15 percent or more every year as rising incomes in the world's fastest-growing major economy spur demand for consumer products.
BUSINESS
Nov 30, 2010

Toshiba to sell low-cost TVs in Southeast Asia

Toshiba Corp. will introduce a line of low-cost television models in December in an effort to double sales to ¥40 billion in Southeast Asian countries, including Indonesia and Vietnam, the head of the TV unit said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Nov 15, 2010

Electronics retailers likely to phase out point systems

Retailers fret that life after the eco-point system is abolished won't be so bright.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 16, 2010

Professor finds meaning in silence

In Japanese there's a word for it, that prolonged silence that cuts into a conversation, bringing discomfort and interrupting flow: shiin. We've all experienced that dead-air tension, but surprisingly there are different levels of comfort with silence, depending on the language being spoken.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Sep 9, 2010

Car makers try to stave off the inevitable

The offer of tax rebates on eco-friendly cars ends Sept. 30, but car makers, happy with high sales, are sweetening the deal.
Japan Times
JAPAN / THE TROUBLE AT TOYOTA
Sep 3, 2010

Slow response made perfect storm worse

While the intense speculation that Toyota Motor Corp. may have covered up electronic defects appears to have ebbed, Japanese experts say the world's top automaker deserves a failing grade for its risk management, and the resulting damage to its reputation was worse than it should have been.
JAPAN
Aug 14, 2010

Japanese whiskeys get foothold in U.S.

SAN FRANCISCO — It was not too long ago that Owen Westman's customers at Rickhouse Bar did not even know there were Japanese whiskeys available, let alone ask for them by name.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Aug 7, 2010

The strategy behind non-alcoholic beer

Non-alcoholic beers have been a big hit for beer makers in Japan, especially when you factor in the fact that they aren't taxed.
BUSINESS
Jul 30, 2010

Toshiba returns to profit on demand for flash memory chips

Toshiba Corp. returned to profitability in the April-June quarter as global demand recovered for flash memory chips used in smart phones and digital cameras.
BUSINESS
Jul 17, 2010

Toyota, Nissan want bigger slice of the pie in Latin America

Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. will invest a combined $1.2 billion to expand production in Latin America amid growing regional and export demand.
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Jul 2, 2010

Tax hike amid slump: Kan's Hashimoto dilemma

Japan's slowing recovery from its worst postwar recession is signaling the economy may be too weak to sustain the higher consumption taxes under consideration by Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 3, 2010

Porn stars in 3-D lure buyers to new TVs

Porn star Mika Kayama is at the frontier of a push to develop videos and content in Japan that Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. need to lure customers for their new 3-D televisions.

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