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JAPAN
Dec 13, 1999

New travel agency serves Tokyo's gays

Staff writer During his trip to the west coast of Australia in January, Shigenobu Umeki, a 40-year-old magazine editor, stayed at so-called gay accommodations, run by gay owners and staffed by gay workers. "I am always conscious of my sexual orientation when talking to people out of fear that they are...
EDITORIALS
Jun 3, 1999

A new world for Japanese business

The latest earnings reports from Japanese corporations listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange provide a running commentary on their predicament. Reflecting a drawn-out recession, both sales and profits plunged in the year to March 1999 (fiscal 1998). On average, sales in all industries except financial services...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2023

Why East Asia’s stroller brands have started chasing fur babies too

As birthrates decline across much of the region, baby goods firms in these markets are increasingly turning their attention to the pet business.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Mar 16, 2023

Xiaomi's slow shift in India to premium smartphones helps Samsung steal its crown

While Xiaomi remained focused on selling mobile phones under 10,000 rupees ($120), Indian consumers were willing to pay up for better looking models with richer features.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / Longform
Feb 20, 2023

Unpacking Japan’s great wage conundrum

With inflation running at a four-decade high, the world’s third-largest economy’s famously stagnant salaries are finally showing signs of rising. Can the momentum be sustained?
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 10, 2022

Demand for bonds is back, with BOJ no longer the only buyer in town

A pullback in bets on a Bank of Japan policy tweak resulted in record monthly purchases from overseas funds in July.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
May 14, 2022

Fashion’s retail revolution: What’s old is new again

As pandemic precautions appear to ease, retail fashion grapples with a return to business as usual.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 25, 2022

Russia’s war is turbocharging the world’s addiction to coal

Demand had already been on the rise since last year amid a natural gas shortage and as electricity use surged after pandemic restrictions were rolled back.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 23, 2021

Turning inward: Why China continues to rise

The heyday of globalization soon could be replaced by a post-pandemic era shaped by national-security concerns and border controls.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 21, 2021

Clean crude? Oil firms use offsets to claim green barrels.

Oil-and-gas companies worldwide are increasingly trying to market their products as cleaner using a range of controversial methods, including buying credits.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Oct 6, 2020

Nintendo bulls betting Switch can provide gaming’s iPhone moment

Some Nintendo bulls believe the company can transform into one that's able to roll out incremental new platforms while retaining its user base.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / Defining the Heisei Era
Sep 29, 2018

Defining the Heisei Era: When Japanese games went global

The Japan Times presents the fifth installment of a monthly 12-part series that looks back at the leading issues of the past three decades.
BUSINESS / Markets / TSE DATA & REPORT
Aug 27, 2018

Tokyo stocks rise further as Wall Street trades higher

Stocks gained further ground Monday on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, after U.S. equity gauges hit record highs Friday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 20, 2016

Can the Bank of Japan keep the bond vigilantes at bay?

The Bank of Japan needs to tread carefully as the country's debt addiction is rattling jittery traders.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 29, 2015

No-sweat risk-taker Arora lets ¥60 billion ride on SoftBank's future

It's a fall evening in Tokyo, and Nikesh Arora is supposed to be in two places at once.
EDITORIALS
Feb 2, 2015

Turbulent times for Skymark

Skymark Airlines Inc., the nation's third-largest carrier, which filed for bankruptcy protection last week after its moves to buy a fleet of Airbus A380 superjumbos to expand into the international flight market flopped, should seek to rebuild itself by refocusing on and consolidating its domestic operations....
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 27, 2014

Learning to love robots

With half the decade complete, we examine an industry that has significantly changed the way we think about ourselves.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
May 18, 2014

Japan home electronics makers play dumb on smart TVs

One company dominates Japan's smart TV market, and it isn't Japanese.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 7, 2011

Battle line over the renminbi

Talk of a new "trade war" over the allegedly undervalued Chinese currency is yet again echoing through the corridors of power in Washington. The U.S. Senate seems determined to pass a bill penalizing China for manipulating the renminbi to keep its value artificially low. Beijing has responded by "regretting"...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Apr 3, 2010

Patience a virtue in miso making

If miso is part of your daily routine, "you're having a decent life," says Tony Flenley, Japan's only British miso maker. Flenley, who runs a 105-year-old miso company in Osaka, believes the time taken to prepare and eat the soup shows the right priorities have triumphed over a fast food lifestyle.
EDITORIALS
Sep 29, 2005

Can a watchdog watch itself?

The Tokyo Stock Exchange's plan to go public in fiscal 2005 (ending next March 31) seems unlikely to go smoothly as the Financial Services Agency opposes the plan. At issue is a debate over whether the bourse can continue to properly execute its public role as a watchdog over the stock market after going...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 15, 2002

Trade pact could trap ASEAN into state of irrelevance

HONOLULU -- Supporters of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) argue that numbers tell the story. And indeed, they do.
COMMENTARY
Nov 12, 2002

The realistic path to reform

In the mid-1970s, Keynesianism came in for criticism in the world of economics, and neoclassical economics -- which sees the market as almighty -- became the mainstream theory. One underlying reason for this was the economic decline of the Soviet Union and other socialist countries.
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2002

Minister wants tax cuts financed

Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said Tuesday he would tolerate proposed tax cuts of 2.5 trillion yen or more if the drop in tax revenues were to be balanced out in the long run.
BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2002

Isuzu may take advantage of special tax breaks

Isuzu Motors Ltd. may accelerate its restructuring moves under the industrial revitalization law to take advantage of tax breaks and other favorable treatment, company sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS / ON THE FRONT LINE
Jun 20, 2002

Tokyo stock prospects peachy

Favorable corporate earnings and economic prospects have not yet been factored into share prices, and price moves on the chart show that the Tokyo stock market has overcorrected itself.

Longform

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