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Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 5, 2006

'Gimme Wings' raises singer-songwriter's profile

Sixteen years ago, Benjamin Franklin wrote a song entitled "Feel Like a Bird." The lead song and the title of his first album, released June 17, is "Gimme Wings." "I guess that suggests I haven't got very far," he jokes. In fact he's come quite a distance, but with still a way to go.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Aug 4, 2006

Psychedelic radar 08.04

Saturday, Aug. 5
BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2006

Mitsubishi Electric profit doubles

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said Friday its group net profit jumped more than twofold from a year before to a record high 24.9 billion yen in the three months ending in June, thanks to vigorous sales of mobile phone handsets.
BUSINESS
Jul 26, 2006

Sharp's quarterly profit up 23%

Sharp Corp.'s net profit jumped 23.1 percent in the first fiscal quarter on growing sales of flat panel TVs and mobile phones, the electronics maker said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 13, 2006

Vodafone to expand world roaming

Vodafone K.K. said Monday it will add four markets to its international roaming service network June 28, bringing to 158 the number of countries and regions where its existing third-generation mobile phones can be used.
BUSINESS
Apr 29, 2006

Son named president at Vodafone

Mobile phone company Vodafone K.K. selected Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son as its new president at an extraordinary shareholders' meeting Friday.
COMMENTARY
Apr 24, 2006

Asian leaders acting badly: the makings of nightmares

LOS ANGELES -- Paging Dr. Geopolitical Freud! It's an emergency.
BUSINESS
Apr 20, 2006

DoCoMo suspends defective phone

NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced Wednesday it has suspended sales of the P702i mobile phone due to a defect that causes the phone to lock when it is turned off.
BUSINESS
Apr 13, 2006

Brazil eyes Japan digital TV format

Brazil on Wednesday showed interest in adopting Japanese digital-television standards over the format widely used in Europe during a ministerial meeting, a Japanese official said.
BUSINESS
Apr 7, 2006

Cell phones for crime-wary kids see brisk sales

With the cell phone market saturated with 90 million contracts, handset makers and phone companies are moving to create new demand by focusing on children and safety.
BUSINESS
Mar 15, 2006

EAccess airs cell phone strategy

Internet service provider eAccess Ltd. has announced it will start offering mobile phone service in the Kanto, Chubu and Kansai regions in February 2008 and expand into the rest of Japan two to three years later.
BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2006

Industrial production increased 0.3% in January

Industrial production rose a seasonally adjusted 0.3 percent in January from the previous month for the sixth straight monthly increase, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2006

Nintendo introduces digital TV tuner for game console

Nintendo Co. unveiled a mobile digital TV tuner Wednesday for its popular portable game console Nintendo DS.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jan 29, 2006

Understanding, visiting and living in North Korea

NORTH KOREA IN THE 21ST CENTURY: An interpretative Guide, by J.E. Hoare and Susan Pares. Global Oriental, 2005, 253 pp., including index, references/bibliography, b/w illustrations, £14.95 (paper). Jim Hoare opened the British Embassy in Pyongyang in 2001 and was the first British diplomat and charge...
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2006

Cell phone, credit card linkup to exploit 60 trillion yen market

Using cell phones with credit card functions to make purchases is expected to be a big thing this year as major credit card firms scramble to get shops and stores to accept such payments.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 15, 2006

NHK has a public duty so how about free streaming from its library?

Since last August the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan (NAB) has been running a nationwide TV ad campaign to promote television commercials.
BUSINESS
Jan 11, 2006

Vodafone to expand roaming service

Vodafone K.K. said Tuesday it will add seven countries to its international roaming service Jan. 19, expanding its mobile-phone network to 137 countries and regions.
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2005

KDDI to tie up with Qualcomm

KDDI Corp. will tie up with Qualcomm Inc., a U.S. wireless communication technology company, to start a broadcasting business for cell phones, sources said Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 11, 2005

Invest in Russia now? Forget about it

MOSCOW -- I recently attended a conference in Moscow aimed at attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) to Russia. It was a high-level conference, organized by Interfax and Chatham House and attended by ministers, senior bureaucrats and leading businessmen, both Russian and foreign.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 17, 2005

Companies rush to take advantage of Rakuten-TBS integration battle

A month since Internet shopping mall operator Rakuten Inc. proposed integrating itself with Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc., other players ranging from information technology firms to foreign financial firms have also entered the fray.
COMMENTARY
Nov 17, 2005

Making sense of the senseless

LONDON -- How can sense be made out of the senseless? How are the prolonged outbursts of mindless street violence and car-burning in town after town throughout France to be explained?
BUSINESS
Nov 12, 2005

Takenaka vows to examine NTT plan

Telecom minister Heizo Takenaka pledged Friday to examine Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.'s plan to reorganize its structure and eliminate overlapping businesses.
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Nov 11, 2005

Psychedelic radar 11.11

Saturday, Nov. 12
BUSINESS
Nov 11, 2005

Softbank rides broadband to 4.4 billion yen operating profit

Softbank Corp. said Thursday it posted its first first-half operating profit in five years, helped by steady growth in its high-speed Internet service.
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2005

NTT's sales, profits fall on stiffer competition

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. said Wednesday its group net profit in the April-September period fell 4.0 percent from a year earlier to 330.73 billion, yen hit by the continuing slide in fixed-line voice communications.
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2005

Softbank, eAccess, IP to get cell nod

The government is set to allow Softbank Corp., eAccess Ltd. and IP Mobile Inc. to launch cell phone businesses possibly next year, becoming the first new entrants into the business in 12 years, sources said Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 28, 2005

Learning from devastating quakes

On Oct. 23, 2004, a series of powerful earthquakes, including one with a magnitude of 6.8, devastated the Chuetsu region in Niigata Prefecture. Of the 51 deaths, 16 were directly caused by the devastation. Most of the remaining deaths were caused by "economy-class syndrome," in which survivors who tried...
Yen on the march as Plaza Accord 2.0 debate grows
The yen strengthened dramatically this month — hitting ¥139.9 to the dollar on Tuesday — and could become a topic of conversation in trade talks between the United States and Japan.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Japan must correct Trump’s false data for trade talks, says Kono
Former Foreign Minister Taro Kono
Jetstar Japan fined for failing to provide adequate cabin crew breaks
The logo of Jetstar Airways on an aircraft parked outside a maintenance hangar in Melbourne, Australia, on Feb. 27.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.
Cases of epidural use in labor rise in Japan alongside concerns
Of the 721,000 childbirths reported in 2024 in Japan, 13.8% involved the use of an epidural, according to the Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.

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