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COMMENTARY
Jul 13, 2005

Sinophobia complicates takeover bids

HONG KONG -- In quick succession, the previously intangible reality of "China Rising" has taken on tangible form for Americans, as China has used the wealth that has accrued as a result of its rapid development and huge trade surpluses to try and takeover three U.S. businesses.
BUSINESS
Jul 12, 2005

KDDI to offer handsets for JR East payments

KDDI Corp. said Monday it will start a new service in January in which its handsets can be used as smart tickets for trains operated by East Japan Railway Co.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 12, 2005

Toyota chief says fuel-cell tieup with GM almost a done deal

Toyota Motor Corp.'s president said Monday a tieup with U.S. rival General Motors on fuel-cell vehicles is in its final stages -- but he promised to do his best to beat GM and Ford.
BUSINESS
Jul 12, 2005

Taisho inks tieup with Yomeishu

Taisho Pharmaceutical Co. said Monday it has concluded a business tieup with Yomeishu Seizo Co., including acquiring a 6.6 percent equity stake in the herbal beverage maker, to develop new health-care products.
JAPAN
Jul 12, 2005

Toyota chief says fuel-cell tieup with GM almost a done deal

Toyota Motor Corp.'s president said Monday a tieup with U.S. rival General Motors on fuel-cell vehicles is in its final stages -- but he promised to do his best to beat GM and Ford.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jul 10, 2005

NTV's "Otona no Natsu Yasumi," Fuji's "Rodo Kijun Kantokukan" and more

Several years ago, actress Shinobu Terashima won a Japan Academy Award and lots of overseas critical praise for her portrayal of a troubled young woman in the movie "Vibrator."
BUSINESS
Jul 9, 2005

FSA ups protection for insurance policyholders

The Financial Services Agency released a new set of rules Friday to upgrade protection of customers by requiring insurance firms to become more accountable for policies they sell.
BUSINESS
Jul 8, 2005

Sumitomo Life chief to head industry

The Life Insurance Association of Japan plans to appoint Shinichi Yokoyama, president of Sumitomo Life Insurance Co., as its next chairman in September after Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. President Ryotaro Kaneko refused to take the post, sources said Thursday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 6, 2005

A prize-winning director quite happy to have a laugh

With his short-brimmed hat and carefully trimmed goatee, Kenji Uchida looks strikingly like the private investigator played by So Yamanaka in "Unmei Janai Hito."
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 6, 2005

Postal privatization bills squeak by Lower House

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's contentious postal privatization bills narrowly cleared the House of Representatives on Tuesday as dozens of lawmakers in the Liberal Democratic Party joined the opposition camp in voting against the legislation.
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2005

'Cool Biz' helps boost Uniqlo sales

Fast Retailing Co., operator of the Uniqlo casual-clothing store chain, said Monday its sales soared 13.7 percent in June from a year earlier on a same-store basis, the first rise in five months.
JAPAN
Jul 3, 2005

Prosecutors to grill former Japan Highway exec

Prosecutors plan to question a 70-year-old former board member of the Japan Highway Public Corp. as early as this week over a bid-rigging scandal for bridge construction projects, according to sources.
EDITORIALS
Jul 2, 2005

Protection in a modern economy

The recent theft of data from some 40 million credit-card accounts in the United States is another reminder of the insecurities of the digital world. Electronic commerce continues to rise in volume but consumers, retailers, financial institutions and other parts of the business chain have not yet adjusted...
BUSINESS
Jul 2, 2005

Japan, Britain to revise tax pact to up investment

Japan and Britain have reached an agreement to revise a bilateral tax treaty to significantly reduce taxes for Japanese companies operating in Britain and vice versa, the Finance Ministry said Friday.
BUSINESS
Jul 1, 2005

AMD sues Intel for damages in Japan

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Japan unit said Thursday that it has filed two lawsuits against Intel Corp.'s Japanese unit for $55 million in damages.
BUSINESS
Jul 1, 2005

Teikoku Oil to get test-drilling rights

The government is expected to give Teikoku Oil Co. concessions in July to conduct experimental drilling in the East China Sea, Vice Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hideji Sugiyama indicated Thursday.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2005

Bid-rigging probe targets highway body

Tokyo prosecutors on Wednesday searched the headquarters of Japan Highway Public Corp. in connection with their investigation into massive bid-rigging for bridge construction projects.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2005

Dynacity chief held over stimulants

Satoshi Nakayama, 42, president of midsize condominium sales company Dynacity Corp., has been arrested on suspicion of possessing a stimulant drug, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said Wednesday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Jun 30, 2005

"Silverfin," "Baby Touch Playbook"

"Silverfin," Charlie Higson, Puffin Books; 2005; 372 pp. For James Bond's legions of males fans (this possibly includes your father), Charlie Higson's "SilverFin" is news of the best kind. Not for this reviewer, though, who belongs to the female half of the planet and whose grouse is that there are already...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 29, 2005

A painter of his time?

When Alfred H. Barr (the founder of the Museum of Modern Art, New York) was sketching out the shape of modern art in the 20th century -- its movements, influences and directions -- he drew a kind of family tree showing how all the different "isms" connected to one another in an evolutionary way.
BUSINESS
Jun 29, 2005

Nippon Oil to raise gasoline prices

Nippon Oil Corp., Japan's largest oil refiner, said Tuesday it will raise wholesale prices on gasoline and gas oil by 3.1 yen per kiloliter in July due to crude oil price increases.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2005

LDP council drops consensus to stamp revised postal bills

Two months after the Cabinet of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi sent a package of postal privatization bills to the Diet, his Liberal Democratic Party's Executive Council decided Tuesday to back a revised version of them by a majority vote.

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