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BUSINESS / U.S. THINK TANK SYMPOSIUM
Nov 10, 2005

Demonizing China will accomplish nothing

Protectionist or demonizing views of China as a currency manipulator or as a security threat could endanger the national interests of the United States and Japan, two American think tank experts told a recent symposium in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2005

Teen admits in court to slaying parents, arson

A 16-year old boy pleaded guilty in court Wednesday to murdering his parents and blowing up their apartment in June with an explosive device.
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2005

DoCoMo cell credit card service near

NTT DoCoMo Inc. said Tuesday it will start a service on Dec. 1 that will let holders of a popular credit card make purchases through their mobile phones.
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2005

Taisho half-year profit sags 25%

Taisho Pharmaceutical Co. said Wednesday its group net profit fell 25.1 percent in the fiscal first half from the previous year to 15.56 billion yen, hit by poor sales of its mainstay nutritional supplement drinks.
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2005

FHI to cut jobs by 5% as first-half profit falls

Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. said Tuesday that its net profit in the first half of fiscal 2005 declined 3.8 percent to 8 billion yen and announced it will cut its domestic workforce by 5 percent, or 700 workers, by the end of January.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2005

JR East settles Kokuro wage discrimination row

East Japan Railway Co. has reached a settlement in a dispute over wage discrimination against workers belonging to a union that opposed the 1987 privatization and breakup of the national railway service, according to company and union sources.
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JAPAN
Nov 9, 2005

Liquor retailer union raided

Police raided the office of a liquor retailer union in Tokyo on Tuesday on suspicion that its former secretary general was involved in embezzling pension funds and failing to collect about 14.4 billion yen in foreign investment funds.
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2005

Tepco profit dives 41% in half as oil prices rise

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday its group net profit for the six months through September plunged 41.0 percent from a year before to 107.98 billion yen due to rising fuel costs stemming from sharp rises in crude oil prices.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2005

JAL profit caught in fuel-cost downdraft; wage cuts planned

announces Monday at the Tokyo Stock Exchange that the carrier fell into the red in the first half of this year.
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BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2005

Canon president to take up top Keidanren post

The Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) on Monday appointed Canon Inc. President Fujio Mitarai to head the country's most powerful business lobby, taking over from Toyota Chairman Hiroshi Okuda in May.
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2005

October recorded 2.4% rise in sales of imported vehicles

Sales of imported vehicles, including those produced by Japanese manufacturers, rose 2.4 percent in October from a year earlier to 18,133 units, an industry body said Monday.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2005

Tepco eyeing 4% cut in spring rates

Tokyo Electric Power Co. is thinking about cutting its rates by an average of 4 percent next spring, company sources said Saturday.
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Features
Nov 6, 2005

Surveying a state of change

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi led his Liberal Democratic Party to a landslide victory in the Sept. 11 general election he called as a de facto referendum on his drive to privatize postal services.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / CABINET INTERVIEW
Nov 5, 2005

Japan Post's private units will need business leaders

When the gigantic Japan Post takes its first steps toward privatization in October 2007, the reins should be held by people who have had experience heading private businesses, Heizo Takenaka, who doubles as minister in charge of postal privatization and minister of internal affairs and communications,...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Nov 5, 2005

Beverly Nakamura

"Although Japan gives the impression of being a rich country, there is still need out there. Everything cannot be covered. The International Ladies Benevolent Society tries to fill the cracks that get overlooked. ILBS still means a great deal to a lot of people and institutions. I am proud to be part...
BUSINESS
Nov 5, 2005

Toyota suffers first drop in profit in four years

Toyota Motor Corp. said Friday its group net profit for the first half of fiscal 2005 declined 2.3 percent from the previous year to 570.5 billion yen -- the company's first interim profit drop in four years.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 4, 2005

Nagoya Players to present Stoppard

The Nagoya Players will present Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" on Nov. 12-13 at Aichi Arts Center Mini Theater.
JAPAN
Nov 4, 2005

Turbine wear may have caused plane blast

An explosion inside an engine of a Japan Airlines passenger jet in August over Fukuoka Prefecture is believed to have been caused by deterioration of the engine's turbine blades, according to an interim report released Wednesday by the engine's manufacturer.
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JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Nov 3, 2005

Aso planning to run for LDP president

Foreign Minister Taro Aso, a potential successor to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, said he will run for president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party next September if he can get the required 20 party members to nominate him.
BUSINESS
Nov 3, 2005

METI panel may back use of 'golden shares'

A study panel in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is considering allowing listed companies to use special shares to ward off hostile takeovers.
BUSINESS
Nov 3, 2005

TBS steadfast in seeking out 'stable' shareholders

A top official of Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. said Wednesday it will continue to try to secure "stable" shareholders to ward off a potential hostile takeover by Internet shopping mall operator Rakuten Inc.
MORE SPORTS
Nov 2, 2005

Super Aguri team applies to join F1

Former Formula One driver Aguri Suzuki, the first Japanese to score a podium finish in a world championship round, said Tuesday a new Honda-backed team has applied to join Formula One from next year.
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2005

Mitsubishi Electric sells satellite

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said Tuesday it received a communications satellite order from Tokyo-based Space Communications Corp., a deal making Mitsubishi the first domestic company to get an order for a commercial satellite to be operated by a Japanese firm.
BUSINESS
Nov 1, 2005

Japan Tobacco posts record profit

Japan Tobacco Inc. said Monday its group net profit in the first half of fiscal 2005 rose 34.6 percent from a year earlier to 101 billion, yen a record for the second straight first-half period.
BUSINESS
Nov 1, 2005

MHI to sell two-cycle gas engines

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. is ready to start marketing new two-cycle, multipurpose gasoline engines, it said Monday.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Oct 31, 2005

Why should Japan's Pharaohs fear the locusts of change?

"God said to Moses, 'Extend your hand over Egypt to bring the locusts, and they will emerge on Egypt. They will eat all the foliage in the land . . . " (Exodus 10:12)

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