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JAPAN
Dec 3, 2003

Ex-MMC executives to pay for defect-complaints coverup

Eleven former managers of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. agreed to an out-of-court settlement Tuesday in a shareholder suit filed by an investor who demanded they pay damages to the company for a drop in sales caused by the automaker's coverup of defect complaints.
BUSINESS
Dec 3, 2003

Companies pursue image boost via programs for disabled

Japanese corporations are steadily expanding their social action programs to support physically disabled people in an apparent bid to look better to foreign investors.
JAPAN
Dec 2, 2003

High court for intellectual property considered

The government is studying the creation of a high court devoted exclusively to creations of the mind.
BUSINESS
Dec 2, 2003

Jittery JT to launch six new products next month

Japan Tobacco Inc. said Monday it will launch six new cigarette products simultaneously early next month in a bid to sustain revenue amid a rapidly shrinking market.
BUSINESS
Dec 2, 2003

Sony seeks capital via bond issue

Sony Corp. said Monday it will raise funds for capital investment by issuing up to 250 billion yen worth of five-year Euroyen zero-coupon convertible bonds on Dec. 18.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Nov 29, 2003

Carol Smith-Wright

This year the International Ladies Benevolent Society marks its half century of uninterrupted philanthropic activities on behalf of organizations and people in need, mostly in Japan. Principally through its annual ball and its Christmas Fair, ILBS raises money that it donates to approved institutions...
BUSINESS
Nov 29, 2003

Industrial output rises for second month in a row

Industrial output grew in October for the second straight month, with the index registering its highest level in 2 1/2 years, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Friday.
BUSINESS
Nov 27, 2003

Wholesaler Digicube goes belly up

Video game vender Digicube Co. said Wednesday it has filed for bankruptcy with liabilities of 9.5 billion yen, battered by a shrinking game software market.
BUSINESS
Nov 27, 2003

Hitachi to buy fridges from China

Hitachi Home & Life Solutions Inc. said Wednesday it has agreed to purchase compact refrigerators and freezers from China's Henan Xinfei Electric Co. for sale in Japan under the Hitachi brand.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Nov 26, 2003

Matsui, the Yankees and the PL's new free-agent trend

Hot stove league time, fans. Or should that be the hot hibachi league here in Japan? Lots going on during the off-season, so let's take a look at a few interesting happenings from last week.
EDITORIALS
Nov 23, 2003

Milestone for an iconic mouse

An old mouse turned 75 last week, briefly distracting the world from wars, suicide bombings, elections and other momentous matters. It wasn't just any old mouse, you see; it was the white-gloved, bulbous-eared rodent Mickey Mouse, better known here as Miki Kuchi. This peculiar creature actually goes...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2003

'Remorseful' Nakao's bribery sentence cut by two months

The Tokyo High Court on Friday reduced the prison sentence handed to former Construction Minister Eiichi Nakao for taking 60 million yen in bribes from Wakachiku Construction Co. in 1996.
EDITORIALS
Nov 21, 2003

On a slow but steady track

Japan's economy, though beset by uncertainties, is recovering steadily. That is the message of the latest government report on the gross domestic product (GDP), which was published last week by the Cabinet Office. In the third quarter, July through September, the real GDP -- excluding effects of falling...
BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2003

Nippon Keidanren eyes new donation plan

The Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) will encourage its member corporations to make political donations in accordance with the size of their membership fees to the group, Keidanren sources said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Nov 19, 2003

Tepco hurt by fallout from nuclear reactor closures

Tokyo Electric Power Co. posted an 86.85 billion yen net profit in the fiscal first half of 2003, down 44 percent from a year earlier.
BUSINESS
Nov 19, 2003

Yamanouchi, Fujisawa may forge tieup

Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co. and Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co. may integrate their business operations by 2005, company sources said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Nov 19, 2003

Casio, Hitachi to develop cell phones in joint venture

Casio Computer Co. and Hitachi Ltd. announced Tuesday they will set up a joint venture in April to develop cell phone handsets.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Nov 18, 2003

Frustration with ISPs and keitai spam

ISP trouble On the subject of ISPs, I also was billed about 100,000 yen by my Internet Service Provider. The salesperson explained the contract to me in broken English as I cannot read Japanese. I was told I had to sign now, I couldn't take the contract away, have someone explain it to me and bring it...
BUSINESS
Nov 18, 2003

Toray's Maeda to resign in June

Katsunosuke Maeda, the chairman and CEO who boosted Toray Industries Inc.'s earnings in the midst of an industry decline, said Monday he will step down from both posts in June.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2003

Mizuho Financial to sell off head offices

Mizuho Financial Group Inc. plans to sell the three former headquarters of the banks it was merged from, Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan, according to sources close to the company.
JAPAN
Nov 15, 2003

Japan to ban certain beef items

A health ministry panel on Friday recommended a ban on the use of cattle backbones in food products, as a safeguard against the human variant of mad cow disease.
BUSINESS
Nov 15, 2003

Graduates enjoy starting salary hike

The average starting salary for male and female university graduates rose 1.5 percent in 2003 from a year before to 198,100 yen, the biggest increase on record, the labor ministry said Friday.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Nov 15, 2003

Mackenzie Thorpe

The Japan Dyslexia Society, known as NPO EDGE, exists to promote understanding of dyslexia and to raise funds to help support patients. Recently EDGE organized in Tokyo a charity exhibition of the drawings, sculptures and silk-screen works of Mackenzie Thorpe, an English artist. The recognition of his...
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2003

Beerlike drink shipments may fall

Shipments of "happoshu," the low-malt cousin of beer, are expected to post their first year-on-year fall in 2003, according to industry data released Thursday.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Nov 13, 2003

The indispensable vagueness of 'domo-domo'

It's when I'm away from Japan and forced to speak in another language (in this case English) that I realize just how vague Japanese can get. At home, it's possible to go through a whole day without uttering one coherent sentence built on spontaneous thought and logic.
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2003

Marubeni to raise cash via preferred share issue

Struggling trading house Marubeni Corp. said Wednesday it will raise 75.5 billion yen by issuing preferred shares through third-party allotment mainly to financial institutions.
BUSINESS
Nov 12, 2003

NTT posts nation's largest operating profit

NTT Corp. posted the nation's largest operating profit for the fiscal first half of 2003.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 11, 2003

Barber chain QB Net's innovations clipped by tight regulations

The experiences of one Tokyo-based hair-cutting operator seem to show how archaic rules in Japan can stifle innovative business ideas.
BUSINESS
Nov 11, 2003

JDC, Pony Canyon eye movie rights

Japan Digital Contents Inc. has come up with a new way to acquire Hollywood movie copyrights.
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2003

Nippon Steel returns to black thanks to China demand

Nippon Steel Corp., the nation's largest steelmaker, said Thursday it swung back into profitability during the fiscal first half on the back of strong demand in China.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
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.

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