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BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2006

Insurers scour the streets to fill female sales ranks

A couple approach a young woman on a Tokyo street and ask her if she is interested in pursuing a new career.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2006

'Life insurance ladies' thrown in limbo

In Japan's still male-dominated business world, there is at least one industry in which women have long made their mark: life insurance.
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2006

Sony braces for impact of massive battery recall

Sony Corp. is cooperating fully with personal computer maker Dell Inc.'s recall of 4.1 million notebook computer batteries supplied by Sony, but it does not know how much the recall will cost, a spokesman said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2006

Oji will ask Daishi Bank to sell its Hokuetsu stake

Oji Paper Co. President Kazuhisa Shinoda will ask Daishi Bank President Kunito Ojima on Thursday to sell the bank's 2 percent equity stake in Hokuetsu Paper Mills Ltd. to Oji, company sources said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 15, 2006

Floating crane hits power line, causes Tokyo-area blackout

A raised construction crane on a barge moving downriver hit high tension lines Monday morning in Edogawa Ward, Tokyo, causing blackouts in the capital and neighboring prefectures for nearly three hours that brought rush-hour transportation to a halt.
Japan Times
Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
Aug 15, 2006

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BUSINESS
Aug 12, 2006

Yanase eyes TSE listing in 2009

Yanase & Co., Japan's biggest automobile importer, plans list itself on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2009 to reinforce its management base by raising low-cost funds, company officials said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 10, 2006

Abe tries to establish economic credentials

SAITAMA -- Yukinori Takahashi, 51, waited nervously with five other entrepreneurs in a spacious room at the business startup support center in Saitama Prefecture.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 10, 2006

First U.S. beef since ban goes on sale at Costco

U.S. beef went on sale Wednesday for the first time since the lifting of a ban imposed in January over mad cow disease, officials from the stores selling the meat said.
BUSINESS
Aug 10, 2006

Inpex books 25.76 billion yen profit

Inpex Holdings Inc. said Wednesday it booked a 25.76 billion yen group net profit in the April-June quarter in the first earnings report it has released since it was formed in April by the merger of Inpex Corp. and Teikoku Oil Co.
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2006

Kimura exec in fraud makes bail

A Kimura Construction Co. executive allegedly involved in the quake-resistance data fabrication scam was released Tuesday on 3.5 million yen bail.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2006

Revolution's gains yet to be measured

PRINCETON, New Jersey -- In August 1981, IBM introduced the 5150 personal computer. It was not really the first personal computer, but it turned out to be "The Personal Computer," and it revolutionized not just business life, but also the way people thought about the world.
BUSINESS
Aug 9, 2006

Softbank rings up profit thanks to Vodafone deal

Softbank Corp. said Tuesday that group sales surged 91.1 percent year on year to 494.2 billion yen in the first quarter of 2006, with nearly half its revenue coming from new mobile phone subsidiary Vodafone K.K.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Aug 8, 2006

Japan media focus blurred on big issues

All the pain of the tragedy that has befallen their family is etched in the crumpled faces of Shigeru and Sakie Yokota.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Aug 8, 2006

Setsuko Hashimoto

Setsuko Hashimoto, PhD, 52, is Director of Marketing at Biacore K.K., a global supplier of instruments for academic, pharmaceutical and biotechnology research. A top class scientist with keen business sense, she formed the Swedish company's Japanese subsidiary, and has been the driving force behind it's...
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.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Aug 6, 2006

Shu Uemura: A life in pursuit of beauty

Hailing from a conservative family of businessmen and bankers, as a young man in occupied Japan, Shu Uemura dreamed of becoming an actor. But, fearing that his weak constitution would hamper his chances of success, he instead enrolled at Tokyo Beauty Academy -- the only man in a class of 130.
CULTURE / Books
Aug 6, 2006

A blue mood for poetry

POEMS OF DAYS PAST / ARISHI HI NO UTA, by Nakahara Chuya, translations by Ry Beville. The American Book Company, 2005, 81 pp., $19.99 (paper). RIGHT EYE IN TWILIGHT / MIGI-ME NO BYAKUYA, by Ban'ya Natsuishi, translations by Ban'ya Natsuishi & Jack Galmitz. Wasteland Press, 2006, 58 pp., $12 (paper). Both...
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 / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Aug 5, 2006

Paving over the Kyoto Protocol realities

The Kyoto Protocol aimed to slow down global warming, but I have a better way of dealing with global warming in Japan. It requires each person to walk outside of their house with a jackhammer and remove a 1-meter slab of concrete.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2006

Toyota shrugs off safety woes; logs record profit

Toyota Motor Corp., unscathed by an investigation over its failure to promptly recall faulty vehicles, announced record group sales and profits for the April-June quarter Friday, thanks to strong sales in North America and Europe.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 4, 2006

Toyota vows to improve quality, recall regime

Toyota Motor Corp. submitted a report to the government Thursday outlining measures it will take to improve its quality control, defect monitoring and recall systems in response to a transport ministry mandate stemming from an accident involving a defective Toyota sport utility vehicle.
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2006

Konica Minolta ups group net profit

Konica Minolta Holdings Inc. said Thursday its April-June group net profit rose 44.3 percent from a year earlier to 10.56 billion yen on double-digit sales and profit growth for its information equipment and optics divisions.
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2006

KHI's Airbus parts contract to end

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. will stop manufacturing fuselage panels for Airbus SAS A321 small jetliners at the end of March when its current contract with the European aircraft company ends, a KHI spokesman said Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2006

Bandai to sell giant Gundam

Bandai Co. said Thursday it will market a large plastic model of the Gundam robot, the main character from the popular cartoon series "Mobile Suit Gundam," on Dec. 16.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 4, 2006

South of the border in 'Nakame'

Naka-Meguro's days as a hip, artsy enclave have long been numbered. The area isgentrifying fast, especially down by the river and uptoward Daikanyama. But venture along the slow-moving, old-school shopping street that forms the spiritual axis of 'Nakame' (as the locals like to call it) and you can still...

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