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BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2008

Konica Minolta net profit soars 39%

Konica Minolta net profit r earlier to ¥55.71 billion in the nine months through December on brisk sales, the yen's weakness against the euro and cost-cutting.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 29, 2008

McDonald's told to pay overtime to manager

The Tokyo District Court ordered McDonald's Holdings Co. (Japan) Ltd. Monday to pay ¥7.55 million in overtime allowance and "additional pay" to a manager at one of its outlets.
BUSINESS
Jan 29, 2008

Canon declines to condemn whale hunt

Canon Inc., the world's largest maker of digital cameras, has declined a request from Greenpeace International to condemn the government's expedition to hunt whales in the Southern Ocean.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jan 24, 2008

BoSox announce new partnership

The Boston Red Sox and longtime marketing partner EMC have expanded their partnership ahead of the Ricoh Japan Opening Series 2008 the team announced on Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2008

China's Baidu begins services in Japanese

Baidu.com Inc., China's leading Internet search company, began offering Japanese-language services Wednesday, taking aim at major search engine providers Yahoo Japan and Google Japan.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Jan 22, 2008

Making day care fit real needs

Second of two parts
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA / ON: DESIGN
Jan 22, 2008

Naoto Fukusawa, the peg pencil, Gallery Le Bain and more

Naoto Fukusawa: Beech Boy
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 20, 2008

People keep their eyes on the TV screen — well, at least one eye

When home-appliance manufacturer Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. announced earlier this month that it was renaming itself Panasonic Corp., the company said it was doing so in order to unify its various brand names, which, in addition to Panasonic, included Matsushita and National. This strategy would...
BUSINESS / THE VIEW FROM EUROPE
Jan 14, 2008

Business scandals teach lesson few in Japan learn

Without a doubt, 2007 will go down as an "annus horribilis" for many industries in Japan, particularly the food industry. The list of scandals and crises last year was long indeed, and began right in January with the discovery that crowd-pleasing confectioner Fujiya had been mislabeling products for...
BUSINESS
Jan 11, 2008

Matsushita, and its products, to only go by Panasonic name

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. announced Thursday it will rename itself Panasonic Corp. and end the National brand so that its products will be exclusively referred to as Panasonic.
Japan Times
JAPAN / THIS FOREIGN LAND
Jan 5, 2008

Assistant language teachers in trying times

Last of four parts
Japan Times
JAPAN / ALSO OUT THERE
Dec 21, 2007

To survive a corporate scandal or to crumble

Reflecting a year that was jam-packed with food makers' scandals, including false labeling, the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation announced earlier this month that "nise," meaning "fake," best symbolized 2008 in a single character.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Dec 16, 2007

A drama of our own making

One recent sunny afternoon, I set off for a performance of "Tokyo/Olympic" by the city's Port B theater company.
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2007

TCI latest fund to seek better returns from companies

The Children's Investment Fund Management Ltd., the U.K.-based activist fund with more than $10 billion (¥1.1 trillion) in assets, said it won't let Japanese companies stymie its efforts to boost shareholder value.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Dec 11, 2007

'Eikaiwa' firms face Nova fallout

Too big, too fast, and with too little quality — that's the consensus view of many industry analysts on former language-school market leader Nova Corp., whose collapse left over 420,000 students and 4,000 non-Japanese instructors without an "eikaiwa" home.
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2007

Housing slump forecast to continue hurting economy

Despite recent signs of recovery, the housing slump caused by stricter regulations for obtaining building permits will continue to hurt the economy for some time to come, analysts say.
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2007

There's life, careers after Yamaichi, workers find

for cooperation so that Yamaichi workers won't be thrown onto the street." A sizable number of Yamaichi workers were taken on by Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co., a Japanese unit of Merrill Lynch and Co. of the United States. Others were fortunate enough to find employment with other financial institutions....

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