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Feb 3, 2007

Yamaha renews Rossi's contract

Yamaha Motor Co. has extended its contract with seven-time motorcycling world champion Valentino Rossi through 2008, the company announced Thursday.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Feb 3, 2007

Patricia Hill

Patricia Hill says she is unused to looking backward. "But I see threads running through my life," she said. "I see my love of different sports and of flowers and gardens.
COMMUNITY
Feb 3, 2007

Aikido fuels life of selfless service

Meet Kenkichi Futami, in many ways the archetypal Japanese salaryman of the postwar period whose sacrifice helped position Japan so productively in the world today.
MULTIMEDIA
Feb 2, 2007

No need to shell out for these oysters

No prizes for guessing what's on the menu at Tokyo Oyster Bar. The name is succinct, businesslike, almost generic. You would imagine it to be sleek, perhaps a bit impersonal, and definitely a bit pricey -- after all, that's the image most other oyster bars in the city aspire to. You'd be wrong.
BUSINESS
Feb 1, 2007

Toshiba triples its group net profit in April-December period

Toshiba Corp. reported Wednesday a group net profit of 111.3 billion yen for the first three quarters of its 2006 business year to March -- more than triple from the previous year -- led by robust earnings in the liquid crystal display, home electric appliance and nuclear reactor businesses.
EDITORIALS
Feb 1, 2007

Mr. Putin courts India

Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to India has prompted the usual dark musings about a new "axis of power" to balance the United States, the West and the international order as it now exists. Yet there is far less to the revitalization of Russia-India ties than the geo-fantasists would have us...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2007

Pending retirees suddenly find, dote on wives

Mitsutoshi Fukatsu has been with his wife for three decades, but their lives have grown apart.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 1, 2007

'Starfish Hotel'

Many foreigners, from visitors to longtime expats, have made films in Japan, but nearly all of them have ended up distinctly non-Japanese. That's not to say they were bad: Josef von Sternberg's erotic fable "Anatahan" (1953) was unlike anything Japan's film industry was making at the time, but it still...
BUSINESS
Jan 31, 2007

Sony sees 15% fall in profit for quarter

Sony Corp. said Tuesday its group operating profit in the October-December period plunged 14.9 percent from 2005 to 178.9 billion yen due to the cost of launching the PlayStation 3 in November.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 31, 2007

Consumers are wary as new Windows Vista goes on sale

Microsoft's Windows Vista hit store shelves Tuesday, but consumers were not snapping them up as the computer industry had hoped.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jan 30, 2007

Press clubs: Exclusive access to, pipelines for info

Because "kisha" press clubs provide easy access to information provided by the central and local governments and business associations, membership is considered essential for mainstream news organizations.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jan 29, 2007

Same hot buttons a hundred years later

NEW YORK -- What was the world like 100 years ago? That was not the question I had in mind when I idly wondered if I could find exactly how French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) had described British playwright/novelist Oscar Wilde on one special occasion. As this is the age of the Internet, I quickly...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 27, 2007

SpongeBob soaks up young fans in Japan

Square and loud, SpongeBob wasn't supposed to have much chance for success in Japan, a nation famous for its love of more cuddly characters like Hello Kitty and Pikachu.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jan 27, 2007

Fujie Kagami

Fujie Kagami has devoted her life to studying and teaching the koto. She has been honored with a Cultural Award from Aichi Prefecture.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 26, 2007

Son boasts fashionable, functional '07 handset line

Fashionable may be the best word to describe the 2007 mobile phone industry, at least according to Masoyoshi Son, chief executive officer of Softbank Mobile Corp.
EDITORIALS
Jan 25, 2007

Latin America makes a left turn

Upon winning a third term in office, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made a sharp left turn in his policies. Pledging to "devote my days, nights and entire life to the construction of socialism in Venezuela," the fiery nationalist has called on the legislature to give him authority to rule by decree,...
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2007

TSE to increase trading capacity

The Tokyo Stock Exchange announced Tuesday it will increase its maximum trading volume from the current 14 million transactions a day to 17 million in the fall, following the bourse's conversion into a holding company in October.

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