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CULTURE / Film
May 30, 2008

'Black Gold'

Some two decades of involvement in the music industry has done little to dull my amazement at how the person who creates the actual product for sale — the musician — is the lowest person on the food chain. Musicians get paid last and least, their cut far less than that of the retailer or the distributor...
BUSINESS
May 29, 2008

Clear Sony speaker goes tubular

Sony, the company that brought the world the egg-shaped music player and the doglike robot, has now created the transparent tube speaker.
BUSINESS
May 27, 2008

Daiwa to sell Shariah-compliant fund

SINGAPORE (Kyodo) Singapore's stock and derivatives exchange has teamed up with the Daiwa securities house to offer an investment fund based on Japan's top 100 companies whose activities comply with Islamic laws, the two sides announced Monday.
BUSINESS
May 23, 2008

Hilton to open hotel at Niseko resort area

Hilton Hotels Corp. said Thursday it will open a refurbished hotel July 1 in the Hokkaido resort area of Niseko, a location recently popular with skiers from abroad, to make it a year-round resort for families, golfers and skiers.
BUSINESS
May 23, 2008

Toys 'R' Us recalls China hair clips

Toys "R" Us Japan. Ltd., the Japanese unit of the U.S.-based toy retailer, said Thursday it is voluntarily recalling more than 15,000 hair clips and other girls' accessories that contain lead paint.
BUSINESS
May 22, 2008

Nonlife insurers lashed by steep profit hits

Four of Japan's six major nonlife insurance companies saw their group net profits plunge in business 2007 as the U.S. subprime loan crisis and the subsequent fall in global stock prices pushed down profits from their investments, the firms said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
May 20, 2008

Japan may ship Philippines 200,000 tons of rice

Japan, self-sufficient in rice, may export 200,000 tons it imported under a World Trade Organization agreement, easing a global shortage, the government said Monday.
BUSINESS
May 16, 2008

March machinery orders slid 8.3%

Machinery orders fell more than economists expected in March as a global slowdown and waning profits dissuaded companies from investing in factories and equipment.
BUSINESS
May 15, 2008

Internet businesses try luck in overseas markets

While Japanese products from cars to TVs are known throughout the world, the country's Internet services have so far been conspicuously absent abroad.
BUSINESS
May 15, 2008

Latest car-nav checks home lights, locks

Drivers can check on their pets, turn their home lights off and on and lock the front door — all from inside their cars — with a new car-navigation system from Panasonic.
COMMENTARY / World
May 15, 2008

Getting Japan to capitalize on its innovation

BOSTON/TOKYO — As they lament the West's obsession with China and prepare to host the Group of Eight in July, Japanese fear becoming a minor planet in the Chinese orbit. Trouble is, Japan still sees manufacturing as the key to prosperity, despite the fact that it is vulnerable to offshoring.
BUSINESS
May 13, 2008

Nissan entering joint venture to produce cheap cars for India

Nissan Motor Co., Renault SA of France and Bajaj Auto Ltd. of India said Monday they will form a joint venture to develop, produce and market ultralow-cost cars, mainly targeting the rapidly growing Indian market.
BUSINESS
May 13, 2008

JPMorgan to start yen inflation swaps as prices increase

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has hired Takuma Kitajima from Merrill Lynch & Co. to start trading yen inflation swaps as Japan emerges from a decade-long bout of deflation.
BUSINESS
May 9, 2008

Soaring Softbank aims for the top

Softbank Corp. said Thursday that its operating profit in the business year to March rose 19.6 percent to ¥324.29 billion after it saw the largest net growth in subscribers among Japan's cellular phone operators.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
May 9, 2008

A drop of Malbec from down south

Despite being the fifth largest producer of wine in the world, when it comes to quality wines, Argentina has long been in the shadow of neighboring Chile, where spicy Shirazes and surprising Chardonnays have consistently outshone anything from the other side of the Andes.
BUSINESS
May 9, 2008

Forbes: Nintendo's Yamauchi richest in Japan

Hiroshi Yamauchi, former chairman of Nintendo Co., the world's biggest maker of hand-held game machines, overtook property developer Akira Mori to become the richest person in Japan, according to Forbes Asia's May 19 issue.

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