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BUSINESS
Jul 1, 2003

Softbank OKs sale of Aozora stake

The Associated Press
COMMUNITY
Jun 29, 2003

Going it alone 'to lift the gloom'

Reiko Togo has been very dissatisfied with Japan's magazine industry for a very long time. "Magazines have become just vehicles for advertisements, and there are none I want to read," she says.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 27, 2003

Nissan enters luxury minivan fray with remodeled Presage

Nissan Motor Co. said Thursday it will debut a remodeled version of the Presage luxury minivan on the domestic market July 24 in a bid to win the intensifying competition in that vehicle category.
BUSINESS
Jun 26, 2003

U.S. firm to acquire Japan's GE Edison

Major U.S. insurance company American International Group Inc. has reached a basic agreement to acquire GE Edison Life Insurance Co., a Japanese life insurance unit of the General Electric group, it was learned Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 26, 2003

GET BROADBAND (but ignore fine print)

You may have already tuned out the incessant commercials by broadband Internet service providers on TV, in magazines and on the Net, but the Fair Trade Commission is tuning them in.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 25, 2003

Fountains of Wayne: "Welcome Interstate Managers"

Lou Reed may be the New York Man, but only a fraction of his New York fans have any direct experience with the Downtown demimonde he writes about. Most are Tri-State suburbanites who as kids went to Manhattan to party and as adults go there to work.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FRONT-RUNNERS
Jun 24, 2003

Takara says its ready to go fetch overseas success

Do dogs in the United States, Japan and South Korea have the same emotions?
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2003

Simpler may be better but it's Tu-Ka's only choice

The head of Japan's fourth-biggest mobile phone company is banking on the old maxim that simpler means better.
EDITORIALS
Jun 24, 2003

Threats from the sky and the seas

In late May, a Boeing 727 that had been parked on the Luanda airport tarmac for 14 months lumbered into the Angolan skies and vanished. Nearly a month later, the whereabouts of that plane are still unknown. There is much mystery in African aviation -- the paperwork on many aircraft is questionable --...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jun 24, 2003

Once upon a time in Asia

As people approach their half-century mark, they tend to get nostalgic. One way they seek to recapture fading memories from childhood is by visiting antiquarian book dealers and scrounging around garage sales, looking for books they enjoyed as kids.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jun 22, 2003

We can rebuild it

Asahi's popular "reform variety" series, "Before/After" (Sunday, 7:58 p.m.), only occasionally tackles very old, traditional-style Japanese homes, opting instead for the kind of rickety boxes that were built during the '60s and '70s, which are more of a challenge to rehabilitate.
BUSINESS
Jun 21, 2003

Nippon Steel, Sumitomo Metal tie up

Nippon Steel Corp. and Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd. said Friday they have signed an agreement to spin off their stainless steel businesses and integrate them under a joint company.
BUSINESS
Jun 19, 2003

Pet stores doing well despite fears of disease, odors

A growing trend among Japanese to keep dogs, cats and other animals as companions has turned the pet industry into a 1 trillion yen behemoth.
JAPAN
Jun 18, 2003

Steep hike eyed for consumption tax

With demographic change affecting Japan's finances more every day, the government's tax panel proposed Tuesday the scaling back of tax breaks for the elderly and doubling the consumption tax to pay for rising pension and medical care costs.
JAPAN
Jun 18, 2003

Steep hike eyed for consumption tax

With demographic change affecting Japan's finances more every day, the government's tax panel proposed Tuesday the scaling back of tax breaks for the elderly and doubling the consumption tax to pay for rising pension and medical care costs.
JAPAN
Jun 18, 2003

Steep hike eyed for consumption tax

With demographic change affecting Japan's finances more every day, the government's tax panel proposed Tuesday the scaling back of tax breaks for the elderly and doubling the consumption tax to pay for rising pension and medical care costs.
EDITORIALS
Jun 17, 2003

Clamp down on illegal exports

The Metropolitan Police Department last week arrested executives of a Japanese engineering company, Seishin Enterprise Co., on suspicion of illegally exporting to Iran sensitive military-related equipment that could be used in the manufacture of solid fuel for missiles. Investigations have also revealed...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jun 15, 2003

Hard balls from the dugout

Professional athletes are a tight-lipped bunch, and even those who are relatively voluble rarely step outside the usual collection of bromides about "doing my best" and "taking one day at a time."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 15, 2003

Sunshine: It's enough to make you blanch

An extinction of sorts has taken place in Tokyo's Shibuya district over the last couple of years. The area was once a happy hunting ground for herds of skimpily clad young girls with tans so deep they were known as the ganguro (black-faced) girls. But go to Shibuya today and you'll hardly find any trace...
BUSINESS
Jun 14, 2003

Corporate bankruptcies down for fifth month

There were 1,482 corporate bankruptcies in May, down 12.6 percent from a year earlier for the fifth consecutive month of year-on-year decline, Teikoku Databank Ltd. said Friday.
BUSINESS
Jun 12, 2003

BOJ poised to purchase ABS worth 1 trillion yen

The Bank of Japan decided Wednesday to start a multiyear program by late July to buy asset-backed securities worth up to 1 trillion yen to make it easier for small and medium-size companies to raise funds.
BUSINESS
Jun 12, 2003

Refrigeration breakthrough claimed

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said Wednesday it has developed a commercial refrigerator that keeps fruit and vegetables fresh an average of five times longer than conventional machines.
BUSINESS
Jun 11, 2003

McDonald's plots burger price hike

Ltd. has said it will raise the price of hamburgers back to 80 yen, effective July 1. Hamburgers have cost 59 yen since last August, a maneuver that has symbolized McDonald's discount strategy.

Longform

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