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BUSINESS
Mar 15, 2008

Mitsubishi Estate eyes property manager M&As

Mitsubishi Estate Co., Japan's largest developer by value, may buy property managers to more than double assets under management to ¥4 trillion ($40 billion) within six years as Tokyo commercial rents slow.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / TAKING A CHANCE
Mar 12, 2008

Young CEO breaks through corporate age barrier

With a single click, you can view the 3-D image of a sedan or a sports car on a Web site of global automakers like Honda and Nissan. With another click, you can change the color and model, or even rotate the vehicle.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2008

Shinginko Tokyo may sue ex-managers

Shinginko Tokyo, the brainchild of Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, said Monday it will consider suing its former management team, including ex-Chief Executive Officer Yasumasa Nishi, for allowing over-lenient screening that resulted in billions of yen in losses.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2008

Warm reception may not await iPhone in Japan

Unlike much of the rest of the world, Japan is unlikely to embrace the iPhone, Apple Inc.'s Internet-enabled multimedia mobile phone, said Nahoko Mitsuyama, a telecom analyst at Gartner Japan who attended the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, in February.
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2008

Skymark mulls first dividend

Skymark Airlines Inc., Japan's largest low-fare carrier, may pay a dividend for the first time next business year to help stem a decline in its shares.
BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2008

MMC focusing on emerging markets to boost income

Mitsubishi Motors Corp., Japan's least-profitable carmaker, aims to raise net income in three years by winning customers in emerging markets.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Feb 29, 2008

Splendor falls on castle walls

Snowcapped Fuji drops behind the humps of the Hakone range in central Honshu as a southwest-bound train approaches Odawara Station. With mountains on the west and the ocean on the south and east, Odawara was a natural fortress. The first to exploit this topography was the Kobayakawa clan, who built a...
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2008

LPG merger eyed to boost competitiveness

Japan Energy Corp., the oil refining unit of Nippon Mining Holdings Inc., said Thursday it is holding talks with Osaka Gas Co. and Itochu Corp. to combine their liquefied petroleum gas businesses.
BUSINESS
Feb 13, 2008

Omron to establish auto parts factory in Eastern Europe

Omron Corp., the country's largest maker of laser radars for cars, will build an auto parts factory in Eastern Europe within three years as it seeks to win new customers in the region.
BUSINESS
Feb 13, 2008

Fujitsu to spin off semiconductor unit

Fujitsu Ltd. said it will spin off its semiconductor operations next month.
BUSINESS
Feb 13, 2008

Daiwa SMBC to invest ¥200 billion more

Daiwa Securities SMBC Co. plans to invest about ¥200 billion of its own money in the coming year to restore profit that has been battered by a slump in underwriting fees.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2008

Sweets makers using more than chocolate to woo

Valentine's Day, whose star product is chocolate, is no longer a business opportunity for Western-style producers only.
BUSINESS
Feb 7, 2008

Namco Bandai cuts profit forecast 38%, eyes closures

Because of a slump in its amusement park business, Namco Bandai Holdings Inc. has cut its annual profit forecast 38 percent and will shut as many as 60 amusement facilities.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 6, 2008

Handling the Taiwan issue

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Opinion polls indicate that one-third of Americans believe that China will "soon dominate the world," while nearly half view China's emergence as a "threat to world peace." In turn, many Chinese fear that the U.S. will not accept their "peaceful rise." Americans and Chinese must...
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.
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.
Funeral held for Princess Yuriko at Tokyo cemetery
Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko, followed by Princess Aiko and Princess Kako, prepare to attend a funeral service for Princess Yuriko at Toshimagaoka Cemetery in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan investigating Amazon for allegedly bullying other businesses
Packages move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon warehouse
Trump team weighs direct talks with North Korea's Kim
Then-U.S. President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea, in June 2019.
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.
Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire, brokered by U.S. and France, takes effect
People near Martyrs Square in Beirut watch as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces a cease-fire on television on Tuesday.
‘What Divides Us’ producer honors grandfather’s Hiroshima reportage
“What Divides Us" producer Cannon Hersey says his grandfather, who wrote about the aftermath of nuclear destruction in Hiroshima, never spoke about what he had seen while working with Japanese minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto to preserve the stories of survivors.
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.
China defense minister being investigated for corruption, report says
Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun attends the opening ceremony of the Xiangshan Forum at the Beijing International Convention Center on Sept. 13. Dong is the third consecutive incumbent or former defense chief to be probed over alleged corruption.
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.

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