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BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2008

Panasonic, Sanyo start tieup talks

Panasonic Corp. and struggling Sanyo Electric Co. announced Friday they will enter capital and business tieup talks to make Sanyo a subsidiary of the electronics giant to boost global competitiveness in green energy and electronics.
BUSINESS
Oct 31, 2008

Hitachi logs quarterly loss, slashes full-year profit forecast

Hitachi Ltd. reported a quarterly loss of ¥17.4 billion Thursday amid a global slowdown in export markets and a surge in prices of oil and other raw materials.
BUSINESS
Oct 29, 2008

Nomura posts loss but expects gains via Lehman acquisitions

Nomura Holdings Inc. said Tuesday its group net loss widened to ¥72.9 billion in the quarter that ended in September due to losses related to the global financial turmoil.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2008

It's a cakewalk for Tokyo's newest doughnut maker

Yoshihisa Yamada, at 44 a holder of an MBA from Harvard, quit his job as president of Rakuten Travel Inc. and established Neyn, a handmade doughnut shop in Tokyo's Akasaka district last month.
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2008

Shinsei eyes deposits to fund consumer loans

Shinsei Bank Ltd., the lender that bought General Electric Co.'s Japanese consumer finance businesses, aims to use low-cost bank deposits to boost profit from consumer loans.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2008

Kansai airport still struggling after 14 years

OSAKA — Fourteen years after opening and a year after its second runway was completed, Kansai airport is still struggling to survive as canceled flights and political clashes with local and central government officials leave the airport's future up in the air.
BUSINESS
Aug 28, 2008

India cuts red tape to clear way for Japanese investment

It is not too late for Japanese businesses to enter the fast-growing Indian market in light of deregulation of foreign investment, according to a leading Indian lawyer and investment consultant.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 19, 2008

Entrepreneur pioneers Akihabara tours

Jane Fong was one of the lucky few awarded a full Foreign Ministry scholarship to a master's program in international business at Sophia University in Tokyo — but she gave that up to become an entrepreneur in "Electric Town."
Japan Times
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jul 3, 2008

Persistent Japan green tech leader

A technology that originates from an invention by Thomas Edison in the 19th century — a bulb filament made of carbonated bamboo — is now considered one of the keys to curbing global warming.
BUSINESS
Jul 2, 2008

Sentiment tanks in latest 'tankan'

Business sentiment among large manufacturers plummeted in June for the third straight quarter, with rising oil and raw material prices gouging into profits, according to the Bank of Japan's "tankan" survey released Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / U.S. BUSINESS SCHOOL SYMPOSIUM
Jun 21, 2008

Trading off the benefits of a 'globalizing' world

Despite much hype about the world becoming flat and more global, the world is in fact becoming more regional than global, said Richard Rumelt, a professor of business strategy at UCLA Anderson Business School.
Japan Times
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
May 30, 2008

Japan finding itself in hot water

SADO, Niigata Pref. — Kyuichi Sakano, head of Niigata's fixed shore net fishing association, sighed in dismay one day last December as his fishing boats came back yet again without any yellowtail.
BUSINESS
May 17, 2008

SMBC logs 77.2% plunge in profit to ¥83 billion

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Banking Inc. said Friday that net profit at its banking unit, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., plunged 77.2 percent to ¥83 billion in the business year that ended in March as the U.S. subprime-loan upheaval eroded its profits.
BUSINESS
May 9, 2008

Soaring Softbank aims for the top

Softbank Corp. said Thursday that its operating profit in the business year to March rose 19.6 percent to ¥324.29 billion after it saw the largest net growth in subscribers among Japan's cellular phone operators.
BUSINESS
Mar 13, 2008

Key sectors to hike pay but amid caution

Major automakers and electronics companies said Wednesday they will raise base wages and bonuses for a third consecutive year but the increases will be moderate this time because of global economic uncertainties.
BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2008

JAL to raise ¥151 billion by selling preferred shares

Japan Airlines Corp. said Friday it plans to raise ¥151.5 billion in capital by selling preferred shares to 14 creditors and business partners to reinforce its financial strength and further improve profitability.
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2008

Fujifilm eyes Net photo-book service as sales of film drop

Fujifilm Holdings Corp. will enter the online photo-book publishing business in August as the traditional camera-film market continues to shrink.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 14, 2008

Washington suffering from debt delusion

WASHINGTON — A second big American interest-rate cut in a fortnight, alongside an economic stimulus plan that united Republicans and Democrats, demonstrates that U.S. policymakers are keen to head off a recession that looks like the consequence of rising mortgage defaults and falling home prices. But...
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2008

Japan Tobacco stands to lose billions due to 'gyoza' food-poisoning scare

Japan Tobacco Inc. said Thursday it may lose billions of yen in earnings due to the food-poisoning scare linked to pesticide found in made-in-China frozen "gyoza" dumplings imported by one of its subsidiaries.

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