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Rugby
Dec 18, 2011

Hong Kong wins big in Airlines Cup final

Playing off the South American continent for the first time, Brazil ended its participation in the Emirates Airlines Cup of Nations with a 37-3 loss Friday to champion Hong Kong.
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Dec 18, 2011

Don't expect Japanese basketball to embrace a real, workable plan

Every few months a false sense of hope surfaces on the blogosphere and in the mainstream media, where optimists peddle the message that Japan's basketball "leaders" finally have their act together, that a new men's pro league will, ahem, finally replace the outdated, increasingly irrelevant JBL and the...
BUSINESS
Nov 23, 2011

Exodus of Japanese executives from UBS continues

UBS AG said Tuesday that Yasuki Matsui will resign as chairman of the investment banking division in Japan, becoming at least the third senior executive in the country to leave a European bank since October.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 21, 2011

Improvement in Indian-Pakistani trade ties bodes well for resolving conflict in South Asia

The summit meetings of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation are not the most exciting of gatherings and for years SAARC has been known for not delivering. But the latest summit held in the Maldives will be remembered, not for any substantive achievement of SAARC itself but for the fact...
EDITORIALS
Nov 19, 2011

Diet action for reconstruction

The Lower House on Nov. 10 passed the supplementary budget for fiscal 2011 to finance reconstruction from the March 11 disasters. This week the Upper House has started deliberations on it. Both the extra budget and related bills are expected to be enacted by the end of the month. But more than eight...
BUSINESS
Nov 16, 2011

Morgan Stanley gain lifts MUFG profit target

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. raised its full-year profit target by 50 percent as a gain from a conversion of shares in Morgan Stanley offset a lending slump.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 28, 2011

Marubeni swaps trail only Tepco in growth

The cost to insure debt of Marubeni Corp. is poised to rise the most this month of any Japanese company besides Tokyo Electric Power Co., reflecting concern an economic slowdown will make it more difficult to meet forecasts for record profit.
BUSINESS
Oct 8, 2011

Ghosn decries lack of yen action

Carlos Ghosn, chief executive officer of Nissan Motor Co., said Japan faces a "hollowing out" of its industrial base should the government fail to take steps to counter the yen's rise.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 19, 2011

China's historic rise (or slowdown)

Is China on the brink of eclipsing the United States as the world's economic megapower, with the yuan taking over from the dollar as the global currency, and China able to exercise financial, military and political hegemony?
Reader Mail
Sep 15, 2011

A comment on Muslims' views

Regarding the Sept. 9 JIJI article "Muslims here feel misunderstood": I would like to add that it seems to me that "feeling misunderstood" is inherent to a certain faction of Muslims all over the so called Western world. That some Muslims feel "misunderstood" increases with their percentage of the population....
BUSINESS
Sep 15, 2011

Toyota says its parts woes are 'behind us'

Toyota Motor Corp. resumed full production at all North American plants this week and said it will expand U.S. output of small engines as Japan's largest automaker works to boost sales slowed by a March earthquake.
BUSINESS
Sep 15, 2011

Nippon Steel said trying to stave off Brazil threat

Nippon Steel Corp. and Brazil's Gerdau SA are in talks to stave off a rival $2.9 billion bid for a stake in Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA, or Usiminas, said two sources familiar with the negotiations.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 8, 2011

Toshiba to purchase Shaw's stake in Westinghouse for $1.6 billion

Toshiba Corp. will buy Shaw Group Inc.'s 20 percent stake in nuclear-plant designer Westinghouse Electric for about $1.6 billion, increasing its share to 87 percent.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 7, 2011

Refusal to talk threatens Suzuki-VW tieup

A tiff that started over Volkswagen AG's description of Suzuki Motor Corp. in its annual report has escalated into a spat threatening to unravel the two automakers' planned alliance before the partnership ever gets going.
BUSINESS
Sep 1, 2011

Toshiba, Hitachi, Sony to create top global LCD firm

Sony Corp., Toshiba Corp., Hitachi Ltd. and Innovation Network Corporation of Japan announced Wednesday a plan to merge their operations and create the biggest company in the global market for small and medium-size liquid crystal displays, which are used in products such as smartphones and tablet computers....
BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2011

Mitsubishi starts data center fund

Mitsubishi Corp. started Japan's first real estate fund that invests in data centers, seeking to benefit from a ¥1.36 trillion market amid rising demand after the March earthquake.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2011

Nissan bets on Infiniti in China

Nissan Motor Co. plans to quadruple Infiniti's share of the Chinese luxury-auto market within five years as it rushes to make up a "ridiculous" amount of time lost to Volkswagen AG's Audi and Toyota Motor Corp.'s Lexus.
COMMENTARY
Aug 10, 2011

Welfare state wins this budget war

With so much financial turmoil, it's important to grasp what last week's budget deal does and doesn't do. Note, for starters, that it won't create much "fiscal drag" on the economy. The spending cuts are simply too small in a $15 trillion annual economy. The deal might shave one-tenth of 1 percent off...
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2011

Mitsubishi Electric has high hopes for China, India

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. expects rising wages in China and India to fuel demand for its products, President Kenichiro Yamanishi said.
BUSINESS
Jul 22, 2011

ANA, AirAsia tie up for budget carrier

All Nippon Airways Co. and AirAsia Bhd., Southeast Asia's biggest budget carrier, announced Thursday they together will launch a new low-cost carrier in Japan, aiming to cultivate new demand and survive intensifying competition.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 15, 2011

Rogge says Pyeongchang win will not affect Tokyo's bid for 2020 Summer Games

International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge lauded Pyeongchang, South Korea's victory in the race for the 2018 Winter Olympics as a win for Asian sport.
JAPAN
Jul 14, 2011

Panel targets English proficiency

An education ministry panel proposed Wednesday that local governments hire 600 foreigners and Japanese with excellent English-language skills nationwide as regular schoolteachers by the end of fiscal 2016 to enhance students' English-language proficiency.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 13, 2011

Brazil's new ambassador plugs business

Marcos Bezerra Abbott Galvao, who was appointed Brazil's ambassador to Japan in March, said his mission is to promote business opportunities in his country for Japanese companies, especially small and medium-size firms, by offering more information.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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