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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 7, 2005

Commemorative YS-11 heralds retirement of fleet

A specially lettered commemorative version of the YS-11, the first passenger aircraft built in postwar Japan, was shown to the media Tuesday at Tokyo's Haneda airport ahead of its retirement from commercial service next fall.
BUSINESS
Dec 2, 2005

IRCJ holds final round of bidding for Kanebo

Three candidates placed their bids Thursday in the final round to select a buyer for struggling and scandal-plagued Kanebo Ltd. and Kanebo Cosmetics Inc., now managed by the government-backed Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan.
BUSINESS
Dec 2, 2005

LDP bill ups ante in China gas dispute

A Liberal Democratic Party panel compiled a bill Thursday to protect the vessels used by marine resource explorers and fishermen in Japan's 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2005

Students boast second satellite success

, a professor at the University of Tokyo, and Ryu Funahashi, leader of a group of graduate students who made a tiny cubical satellite, shown in bottom photo provided by Nakasuka, weep with joy Oct. 27 after the first signal from the craft was received as it passed over Japan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 26, 2005

Tokyo Star Bank has weak TSE debut

Tokyo Star Bank debuted Tuesday on the Tokyo Stock Exchange to become the nation's second revived bank to go public.
BUSINESS
Oct 8, 2005

Foreign firms not in Kanebo hunt

The Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan has chosen four competing business groups as part of the second tender for sponsorship of Kanebo Ltd.'s rehabilitation, according to sources.
BUSINESS
Oct 8, 2005

Ships spotted taking pipes toward disputed gas fields

Japan has confirmed that vessels carrying pipes are sailing in the East China Sea toward two gas fields at the center of an energy and border dispute between Japan and China, the trade minister said Friday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 6, 2005

Give them what they want

When Paul Baron moved to Tokyo three years ago, he was excited to explore the city's vast art world as he had been an avid follower of art events while studying graphic design in London. There was only one problem: Where to find out what was going on. It should have been easy; it should have all been...
BUSINESS
Oct 5, 2005

Tech show morphs into DVD war zone

CHIBA -- An annual technology exhibition that kicked off here Tuesday shows signs of becoming a battleground of sorts for the two next-generation DVD formats threatening to leave consumers with incompatible machines.
BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2005

Firms win Libyan oil-field tenders

Five Japanese enterprises won international tenders Monday to acquire the rights to develop a combined six oil fields in Libya, the firms said.
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2005

Japan, China grope for way to share drilling for gas

Japan and China kicked off a two-day working-level meeting Friday on contentious gas projects in the East China Sea with hopes that they can agree to jointly tap the resources.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Sep 11, 2005

Views from Asia suggest that 'Team Bush' is playing poorly for all sides

CONFRONTING THE BUSH DOCTRINE: Critical Views From the Asia-Pacific, edited by Mel Gurtov and Peter Van Ness. London: Routledge Curzon, 2004, 277 pp., £20.99 (cloth). Characterizing the Bush administration's foreign policy of zigzagging, dysfunctional initiatives and self-inflicted wounds a "doctrine"...
JAPAN
Sep 10, 2005

Chinese warships make show of force at protested gas rig

Five Chinese naval ships, including a guided-missile destroyer, were spotted Friday morning near the Chunxiao gas field in the East China Sea, where Japan and China have a dispute over demarcation, the Maritime Self-Defense Force said.
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2005

Commercial launchpad abroad urged; Kiribati eyed

A space industry advisory panel at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has proposed in a report that Japan build a rocket launchpad abroad, in addition to the one currently being used on Tanegashima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, METI officials said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Sep 1, 2005

Japan 'regrets' China drilling

A Chinese Embassy official was summoned Wednesday to the Foreign Ministry to be told that Tokyo regrets that a Chinese consortium is set to begin drilling in the Chunxiao gas field in the East China Sea, where the two countries are disputing the boundary, a ministry spokesman said.
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2005

Honda will go it alone on fuel-cell cars unless GM comes knocking

Honda Motor Co. will work alone to develop fuel-cell cars but is open to the idea of joint research with General Motors Corp., President Takeo Fukui said in an interview Thursday.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jul 31, 2005

Only the names change as U.S. policy blunders on

Don't blame it on the neo-cons.
BUSINESS
Jul 20, 2005

Shinsei Bank sues DIC for 13 billion yen

Shinsei Bank said Tuesday it filed a damages suit against Deposit Insurance Corp. of Japan seeking 13.4 billion yen for losses incurred as a result of a long-standing dispute with a bankrupt real estate developer.
BUSINESS
Jul 16, 2005

Minister eyes China talks as gas dispute boils over

Japan and China should resolve a bilateral row over gas projects in the East China Sea through dialogue, Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Shoichi Nakagawa said Friday.
BUSINESS
Jul 14, 2005

Teikoku Oil to be granted drilling rights in East China Sea

The government is set to grant Teikoku Oil Co. concessions later this week to conduct exploratory drilling in the East China Sea, a senior official at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jul 1, 2005

Teikoku Oil to get test-drilling rights

The government is expected to give Teikoku Oil Co. concessions in July to conduct experimental drilling in the East China Sea, Vice Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hideji Sugiyama indicated Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 24, 2005

Door wide open for resolving Korean nuclear issue

HONOLULU -- There is no country in Asia, indeed in the world, that behaves like the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Since its founding more than a half century ago, the DPRK has pursued a different course, always troubling. For 13-15 years it has been the very center of Northeast Asian...
JAPAN
Apr 18, 2005

Nakagawa raps China for allowing anti-Japan attacks

Trade minister Shoichi Nakagawa criticized the Chinese government Sunday for failing to prevent vandalism of Japanese property in China by some of the participants in anti-Japan rallies the last three weekends.
BUSINESS
Apr 16, 2005

Protests preclude joint energy development: Nakagawa

Industry minister Shoichi Nakagawa rapped China on Friday for allowing anti-Japan rallies to take place as Tokyo was about to make a decision on starting preparations for test-drilling in disputed waters in the East China Sea.
BUSINESS
Apr 12, 2005

East China Sea test-drilling not to be swayed by unrest

Japan will decide whether to give Japanese firms rights to conduct experimental drilling in disputed waters in the East China Sea regardless of a series of anti-Japanese protests in China, Vice Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hideji Sugiyama indicated Monday.
BUSINESS
Apr 9, 2005

Tokyo's terms for joining China gas project rejected

Japan could accept China's offer to jointly conduct oil and gas exploration in the East China Sea, but only if Beijing provides details of its ongoing gas projects in the disputed waters and halts its operations there, the industry minister said Friday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 18, 2005

Ito-Yokado holds initiation rite for 1,046 rookies

Supermarket chain Ito-Yokado Co. held an initiation ceremony for 1,046 new recruits of its group companies Thursday, ahead of other similar rites by major companies.
BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2005

IRCJ ends bidding for Daiei rehab

The Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan stopped accepting tender bids Monday for parties seeking to participate in the revival of the troubled Daiei Inc. supermarket chain, IRCJ officials said.
U.S. tourist arrested after bringing a handgun into Japan
Hyogo police believe the handgun a U.S. tourist inadvertently brought into Japan slipped through security procedures at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture.
3D printer used to construct train station building in Japan
A train station building (front) is assembled from parts printed using 3D printer technology, in Arida, Wakayama Prefecture, on Wednesday.
Japan’s leader didn’t read the job description
Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader Shigeru Ishiba is facing a political funding scandal that has damaged his reputation and sparked speculation that internal efforts to remove him are underway.
Japan promises 'bold and speedy' response to Trump’s surprise 24% tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump unveils new U.S. tariffs at the White House in Washington on Wednesday.
Tokyo’s KK Line to close for decadelong overhaul as public greenway
People enjoy running and yoga on Tokyo Expressway’s KK Line, a 2-kilometer elevated expressway cutting through the capital’s commercial Ginza district, when it was opened as a pedestrian space in May last year.
Haruki Murakami TV adaptation revisits 30 years of watershed moments
Though Haruki Murakami's trademark whiff of offbeat existentialism is threaded throughout NHK's "After the Quake," the final episode — conceived as a sequel to the story "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" — is the most stylized, featuring an anthropomorphic talking frog (voiced by Non) and his erstwhile associate Katagiri (Koichi Sato).
Nintendo to launch the Switch 2 on June 5
The controllers for the Switch 2 will attach to the console magnetically rather than sliding on rails as with the original device.
A new human trafficking trend emerges from Myanmar scam centers
Victims of scam centers who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar gather at a compound inside KK Park, a fraud center on the country's border with Thailand, after a multinational crackdown in February.
Meiji says sayonara to bottled milk, a staple of Japan's bathhouses
Meiji bottled milk lined up in a fridge at Kosugiyu, a bathhouse in Tokyo. The sticker urges patrons to enjoy the milk one last time before it’s gone.
A Canadian made a weekend trip to Costco a Japanese pastime
Under the watchful eye of Ken Theriault, Costco representative director and Japan country manager, the American membership-model wholesaler has flourished in Japan.

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