Search - company

 
Menu
Search
 
November 26, 2024
 

Today's print edition

Home Delivery
Subscribe for more access
55,413 results
Sort by: Relevance Newest Oldest
After adjusting your search parameters, press Enter on your keyboard or click on the red magnifying glass to run your query again.
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2003

Asahi group's pretax profit sinks 5.1% on weak sales

Asahi Breweries Ltd. said Friday its group pretax profit for the business year to Dec. 31 fell 5.1 percent from the previous year to 57.55 billion yen due to weak sales.
BUSINESS
Feb 19, 2003

Bandai to adopt holding firm system

Toy maker Bandai Co. said Tuesday it will adopt a holding company structure by March 2006 as part of a new three-year business plan that will be implemented in April.
BUSINESS
Feb 19, 2003

Iwama to head Sapporo holding firm

Tatsushi Iwama, 63, president of Sapporo Breweries Ltd., will head a new holding company, tentatively called Sapporo Holdings Inc., to start up July 1, company officials said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2003

Christian-nuptial fad calls on fake pastors

Seeing a job ad placed by a Tokyo wedding company two years ago in an English daily, a 32-year-old Australian man applied for a position performing Christian-style nuptials at hotels and wedding halls on weekends.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2003

Snow's successor hopes red cartons gain consumers' blessing

On Jan. 7, red milk cartons debuted at stores nationwide, with dairy farmers and retailers hoping the new brand will boost consumption, which has been down since contaminated milk products sickened thousands of people three years ago.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jan 12, 2003

Drinking in the delights of men

It was after 2 a.m. and I was on a mission in Kabukicho. The assignment involved two things: alcohol and men. As dangerous a combination as that is, what woman could resist such temptation? Certainly not this one.
BUSINESS
Jan 12, 2003

Nippon Life in deal to sell insurance to Chinese

Nippon Life Insurance Co. will soon become the first Japanese life insurance company to market policies in China on a full-scale basis, Nippon Life officials said Saturday.
EDITORIALS
Dec 29, 2002

What 'McDonaldization'?

I t wasn't all that long ago that American journalist Thomas Friedman was making headlines with his so-called Golden Arches Theory of conflict prevention: No two countries that both had McDonald's, he wrote in 1996, had ever fought a war against each other. Around the same time, McDonald's was drawing...
Japan Times
JAPAN / AT THE JUNCTION
Nov 15, 2002

Affiliates are cashing in on cozy ties with Japan Highway

Last spring, an employee at a road maintenance company smelled a rat as his firm prepared to bid for an expressway-related project by the semi-governmental Japan Highway Public Corp.
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2002

UFJ Tsubasa in data leak claim

Personal data on clients of UFJ Tsubasa Securities Co. have been leaked to a broker in Tokyo that deals with information on individuals, the company said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2002

Takeda Chemical profits hit interim record high

Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd. said Wednesday its group net profit logged a year-on-year rise of 2.2 percent in the first half, hitting 133.67 billion yen.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 17, 2002

'Tis a pity she's the leading actress

Contemporary theater in Japan existed as something akin to an underground cult in the 1960s and '70s. In the '80s, with bubble money swilling around everywhere, many of these youthful, looselyknit groups came in from the cultural margins and formed theater companies. Led by experimental directors such...
CULTURE / Music
Sep 29, 2002

Scouting out the Next Big Thing

At this very moment, thousands of young musicians throughout Japan are busy pursuing the same elusive goal: pop stardom. Some are driven by the need to express their artistic vision; others by the perks of stardom; and still more of them by the simple desire to support themselves by playing the music...
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2002

Japan Atomic Power hid cracks

Japan Atomic Power Co. kept running a nuclear reactor in Fukui Prefecture without reporting to the government that it had detected cracks in the core's shroud, company sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2002

Duskin chief to step down over Mister Donut scandal

OSAKA -- Duskin Co., the operator of Mister Donut shops in Japan, said Wednesday its president will step down in November over a scandal involving meat dumplings containing a banned additive.
EDITORIALS
Sep 24, 2002

Corporate ethics remain in peril

Safety should be the highest priority of any nuclear power-generating program. Japan, the world's only victim of atomic bombings, has every reason to be particularly sensitive about nuclear safety. However, some of the nation's electric power companies have been found wanting in the safety management...
COMMENTARY / JAPAN IN THE GLOBAL ERA
Sep 23, 2002

Youth must lead creative destruction

LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- The turn of the century is an important opportunity to engage in questioning and re-evaluating some of the global community's basic tenets, assumptions, policies and directions. On these matters we are being well-served by some excellent books.
EDITORIALS
Sep 21, 2002

An inventor's rights to rewards

An invention is the product of inspiration, endeavor and innovation on the part of one or more researchers. Breakthrough inventions may enrich human life and enliven economic activity. One such example in Japan is a semiconductor diode that transmits blue light when electricity is passed through it....
BUSINESS
Sep 19, 2002

Full time oft tough balancing act

For three young women, working as temps matches both their career plans and their private lives.
BUSINESS
Sep 17, 2002

Electric toothbrush sales increase as prices decay

Sales of electric toothbrushes are booming in Japan following a significant decline in product prices.
Japan Times
JAPAN / THE OKINAWA FACTOR
Sep 13, 2002

Okinawa's free-trade zones failing to attract companies

GUSHIKAWA, Okinawa Pref. -- The Acrorad Co. factory in Okinawa's Nakagusuku Free Trade Zone looks out on more than 100 hectares of empty lots.
COMMENTARY
Sep 7, 2002

Scandal's dangerous fallout

The nuclear-plant faults that Tokyo Electric Power Co. tried for years to cover up may not have been serious in themselves, but the effects of the coverups on Japan's nuclear debate will be catastrophic.
BUSINESS
Sep 4, 2002

Mitsui unveils new president

Mitsui & Co. decided Tuesday to promote Shoei Utsuda, senior executive managing officer, to company president, company officials said.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2002

Ministry begins latest Nippon Ham inspection

The farm ministry on Tuesday began checking all uninspected beef submitted by a Nippon Meat Packers Inc. subsidiary, which is at the center of a scandal for mislabeling beef in a bid to receive state buyback subsidies for unsold domestic meat.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2002

Nippon Food's sold-off beef to be checked

The farm ministry on Monday said that it would inspect all of the roughly 140 tons of beef that Nippon Food Inc. asked the government to purchase after a beef-mislabeling scandal came to light earlier this year.
JAPAN
Aug 22, 2002

Suzuki charged with taking building firm's 6 million yen bribe

Prosecutors indicted House of Representatives member Muneo Suzuki and his policy secretary Wednesday on charges of taking about 6 million yen in bribes from a construction company based in Abashiri, Hokkaido, while Suzuki was head of the Hokkaido Development Agency.
BUSINESS
Aug 21, 2002

Nanaboshi execs held over shady bookkeeping

OSAKA -- Prosecutors on Tuesday arrested the president and two former executives of Nanaboshi Co., a plant maintenance firm that went under last year, for allegedly doctoring the company's books to make the business results look better.
Taiwan stuns Samurai Japan to capture Premier12 title
Japan starter Shosei Togo reacts after allowing a three-run home run against Taiwan in the fifth inning of the Premier12 final on Sunday.
Japan and U.S. to form missile plan in case of Taiwan emergency
A U.S. Marine Corps M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Missile (12SSM) system are put on display at a symposium at a base in Kisarazu, Japan, in June 2022.
Preparations for Osaka Expo well underway amid lack of excitement
The Grand Ring, a symbol of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka
Ishiba shelves proposal for liaison offices with North Korea amid rising tensions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks on Saturday in Tokyo at a rally that was held by a group of families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago to demand the immediate return of all abductees.
'Kohaku' still matters for J-pop bragging rights
Emerging Gen Z J-pop group ME:I will perform on this year's "Kohaku Uta Gassen," national broadcaster NHK’s New Year's Eve spectacle.
Are you leaving your loved ones digital legacies or headaches?
The National Consumer Affairs Center reports a growing number of consultations regarding "digital legacies" — data and online services left behind when people die.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.
An iconic 32-foot doughnut might give Randy’s an edge in Japan
Randy's Donuts in Inglewood, California. Replicas of the giant doughnut sculpture will be installed, where possible, at shops in Japan.
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Totopa in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward was picked by consultants TTNE as the best sauna of the year.
Japan’s sauna movement: Relax, refresh, repeat
By Greg Dvorak

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

SWCC keeps changing with keyword ‘new challenges’
SWCC keeps changing with keyword ‘new challenges’

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS note

Read more

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER