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BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2002

Postal entities in Europe seek tieup on express mail

Deutsche Post and other European postal firms have asked Japan's Postal Services Agency to conclude tieup arrangements on express mail delivery services, the head of the agency said Friday.
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2002

Tax Commission policy advocates stiffer burdens

The government's Tax Commission on Friday compiled its basic policy for fundamental tax reform over the medium and long terms, aiming for fiscal reform by securing tax revenues.
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2002

Ecuador minister to explore family history in Japan

Ecuador trade chief Richard Moss' eight-day visit to Japan beginning June 23 will be a sentimental journey.
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2002

Katokichi to recall Chinese spinach

OSAKA — Major frozen foods firm Katokichi Co. said Thursday it will recall 74,000 packages of frozen Chinese spinach because it has been alerted by authorities that the imports contain levels of pesticide residue in excess of the legal limit.
BUSINESS
Jun 14, 2002

Mazda to boost purchases of V-6 engines from Ford

Mazda Motor Corp. expects to expand its procurement of large V-6 gasoline engines from its parent firm, Ford Motor Co. of the United States, company officials said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jun 13, 2002

Broadband seen buoying Japan over U.S.

Japan could overwhelm the United States economically by focusing on broadband technology, Sony Corp. Chairman Nobuyuki Idei said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2002

Ex-SDF officer held over cash scam

OSAKA — A 44-year-old former Self-Defense Forces officer has been arrested for allegedly bilking a woman out of some 9.5 million yen by posing as a trading house president, it was learned Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2002

Snow Brand to recall spinach from China unit

Snow Brand Milk Products Co. said Wednesday it will recall frozen spinach its subsidiary produces in China and markets in Japan because the food was found to contain residual amounts of the pesticide chlorpyrifos.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jun 13, 2002

Canny Japanese playing it by the numbers

Any time I require the services of a taxi, I can easily recall the telephone number of the Daiwa Taxi Co., 3563-5151, because it transliterates phonetically into "Sa, Goro-san, koi-koi" (Well, come and pick me up Goro-san).
JAPAN
Jun 12, 2002

Prosecutors grill Togo on funds scandal in Europe

Japanese prosecutors in Europe have repeatedly quizzed former elite diplomat Kazuhiko Togo over a breach of trust case involving two Foreign Ministry officials now under arrest and a government-funded committee on aid to Russia, investigative sources said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 12, 2002

New softener bolsters UV protection

OSAKA — Times have changed from the days when young girls were eager to get a dark tan and be called "ganguro," or "black-faced."
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 12, 2002

Kona Records: 'Deep Funk Africa'

With a title like "Deep Funk Africa," this CD compilation had better deliver. And deliver it does -- 14 steaming slabs of rough-hewn funk from Ghana, Mobutu's Zaire, Sierra Leone and beyond.
JAPAN
Jun 11, 2002

Obituary: Kunihiko Shimonaka

Kunihiko Shimonaka, former president of Heibonsha Ltd., a major Japanese encyclopedia and book publishing company, died last week at the age of 77, his family said Monday.
BUSINESS
Jun 10, 2002

New insurance rules for failed insurers

The Marine & Fire Insurance Association of Japan is considering offering full protection to individual policyholders for three months after the collapse of a nonlife insurer, association sources said Sunday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jun 9, 2002

In step with the real Japan

We both confess to complete and utter madness, but we've been having a whale of a time -- and not only down in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, where the International Whaling Commission had its recent roughhouse, and where we completely pigged out on kujira no niku (whale meat) before heading on to...
COMMUNITY
Jun 9, 2002

Seeing Japan from top to bottom

We both confess to complete and utter madness, but we've been having a whale of a time -- and not only down in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, where the International Whaling Commission had its recent roughhouse, and where we completely pigged out on kujira no niku (whale meat) before heading on to...
LIFE / Travel
Jun 9, 2002

In step with the real Japan

We both confess to complete and utter madness, but we've been having a whale of a time -- and not only down in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, where the International Whaling Commission had its recent roughhouse, and where we completely pigged out on kujira no niku (whale meat) before heading on to...
JAPAN
Jun 9, 2002

Rakuten eyes full shopping via mobiles

Rakuten Inc., operator of Japan's largest Internet shopping site, Rakuten Ichiba, plans to make its full online shopping service available on mobile phones by the end of the year, company officials said Saturday.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 2002

Condo's height approved by court

The Tokyo High Court on Friday reversed a lower court decision that said a 44-meter-high condominium in Kunitachi, western Tokyo, was in violation of a municipal ordinance by being too tall.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 8, 2002

Making the leap from street art to mainstream

Here she is known as Bibi. It's the name she uses to sign her artwork -- lyrically humorous paintings in ink and watercolor that bring animals and children to life in ways that are engaging and respectful. It's who she is to her friends. It's the name students use in her yoga classes at two international...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jun 8, 2002

Alejandro Zaera-Polo

The Yokohama International Ferry Terminal opened to festive acclaim last Sunday.
BUSINESS
Jun 8, 2002

Kobe Steel to sell equity to Comalco

Kobe Steel Ltd. said Friday it has signed an agreement to sell its 9.5 percent interest in Australian aluminum refiner Boyne Smelters Ltd. for around $78.5 billion to Comalco Ltd.
BUSINESS
Jun 7, 2002

Foreign insurers unable to halt cancellations

Foreign-affiliated life insurance companies that took on the operations of collapsed domestic insurers were unable to stem the tide of policy cancellations in fiscal 2001, according to earnings reports, the last of which was released Thursday.
JAPAN
Jun 6, 2002

Insecticide found on Lawson spinach

Large quantities of insecticide residue have been found on frozen spinach from China used in prepared meals sold at Lawson Inc. convenience stores, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 6, 2002

Suntory has good news for frugal drinkers

OSAKA -- Suntory Ltd. will price its new "happoshu," which goes on sale June 25, at 130 yen per 350 ml can -- 5 yen lower than that of all other happoshu brands marketed by three other major brewers.
BUSINESS
Jun 6, 2002

2% group surtax may be short-lived

The government may repeal earlier than initially scheduled a 2 percent surcharge on the group profits of firms that adopt a new group taxation system to be introduced in the current fiscal year, Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa suggested Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 5, 2002

Life insurance giants growing weaker

Hit by slumping share prices and mounting policy cancellations, the nation's top 11 life insurers are continuing to lose strength, earnings reports released Tuesday showed.

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