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BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 28, 2013

Otsuka to pay up to $825 million for Lundbeck Alzheimer drug

Otsuka Holdings Co. has agreed to pay H. Lundbeck A/S as much as $825 million (about ¥78 billion) to develop an experimental Alzheimer's treatment.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 27, 2013

Panasonic gets home solar sales lift

Panasonic Corp. said its solar-panel operation will probably remain profitable amid growing demand from domestic homeowners.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 27, 2013

Signs indicate the U.S. economy is strengthening

Traditional economic labels lose their meaning for many Americans when they're told that the U.S. economy has been in a recovery since mid-2009.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 22, 2013

Tokyo art blossoms in spring

It seems that this year everything is coming together for the Tokyo art world, literally.
EDITORIALS
Mar 22, 2013

Big repercussions from Cyprus

Compared with the Greek, Irish, Italian and Spanish crises, the financial problems of tiny Cyprus should have been a quick fix for European leaders.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 22, 2013

Music and models come together to show off Fukuoka's fashion

What do you get when you mix musicians, models and five dancing kids? It's quite an impressive collection — in fact it's the Fukuoka Asia Collection (FACo).
BUSINESS
Mar 22, 2013

Samsonite to raise Japan price tags

Samsonite International SA, the world's largest branded-luggage maker, plans to raise prices in Japan by as much as 12 percent as a weaker yen cuts the dollar value of sales in the country.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 19, 2013

TPP entry could pave way for U.S. LNG deal

Japan's bid to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations may make it easier for it to import liquefied natural gas from the United States, a prospect that is raising the hackles of environmental groups.
JAPAN
Mar 19, 2013

French firm hit for aiding Chinese ship choppers' ability

Tokyo voices concern to Paris after a French defense contractor sells a copter-stabilization system to China that could help it badger Japan near the Senkaku Islands.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 18, 2013

'Gerihatricks'

The puck was skittering around center ice when Bill Oliver gathered it in with his stick, weaved his way through traffic into the offensive zone, skated free of a closing defenseman and wristed a shot into the corner of the net.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 17, 2013

The rising of a nation

This superb book charts the improbable rise of South Korea from the devastation of war and impoverishment to rapid development and prosperity, and from brutal dictatorship to the most vibrant democracy in Asia. It is 'impossible' in terms of its economic and political achievements, 'the most unlikely and impressive story of national building of the last century,' Daniel Tudor writes.
BUSINESS
Mar 15, 2013

Nintendo ordered to pay in 3-D patent suit

Nintendo Co. said it was ordered to pay $30.2 million to a former Sony Corp. employee after a federal jury in New York ruled that the maker of the 3DS machine infringed on his patent.
Japan Times
LIFE / CULTURE SMASH
Mar 13, 2013

The online anime revolution has finally ignited in Japan

The first question after a panel I once chaired at an anime convention in the United States sounded innocent enough. "So, what do you guys think about Crunchyroll?"
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2013

Abe's success with BOJ picks likely to boost LDP prospects for July poll

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is riding a popularity wave unseen by six immediate predecessors, including himself in his first short-lived stint, as he pushes his Bank of Japan nominees through a divided Diet, raising the odds of the ruling party winning a July election.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Mar 12, 2013

Do dire predictions for Japan factor in a rush for the exits?

Within two hours of the massive earthquake that jolted Japan at 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2011, the Japanese government received notice that an “Article 15 event” had occurred at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 9, 2013

Economy returned to growth in last quarter, boosting Abe's easing drive

The economy returned to growth in the fourth quarter, the Cabinet Office announces, bolstering Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's campaign to end 15 years of deflation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2013

As Abe leans toward TPP, car, insurance sacrifices possible

With Prime Minister Shinzo Abe determined to join negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade pact, the focus has now shifted to how much deregulation Tokyo would have to sacrifice to Washington in the automobile and insurance sectors in exchange for the protection of Japan's politically...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / TRAVEL INSIDER
Mar 6, 2013

Jetstar partners with JAL; China Airlines increases Osaka-Kaohsiung flights; Virgin fuel surcharge

Jetstar teams with JAL
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Mar 4, 2013

Politicians hit lethal U.S. aid for new Egypt

Concerned about Egypt's political instability and the U.S. budget crunch, a growing number of American lawmakers are challenging the wisdom of providing $1.3 billion a year in military aid to Cairo, arguing that the policy is overdue for a wholesale review.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 4, 2013

Italian election gives Europeans a reality check

For a while, Europe's political elites had convinced themselves the worst of the euro crisis had passed. Italy's latest election quashes this optimism.

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