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JAPAN
Oct 2, 2005

Telecom exec wanted over share-price scam

A former executive of a failed telecommunications firm has been placed on the nationwide wanted list on suspicion of announcing an unrealistic mobile phone service to raise the stock price of its parent company, investigative sources said Saturday.
BUSINESS
Sep 30, 2005

Goldman to invest 25 billion yen in eAccess' cell phone business

U.S.-based Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will invest some 25 billion yen in eMobile Ltd., the cell phone unit of Japanese broadband services firm eAccess Ltd., the cell phone company said Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 22, 2005

'Manga' publishers see cell phones as the future

Cartoon-strip publishers, whose printed-matter sales have been losing steam, are actively embracing mobile media because cell phones are what young people are spending their time and money on.
EDITORIALS
Aug 28, 2005

Win-win in a downloading culture

The start of Apple Computer Inc.'s music-downloading service Aug. 4 heralds big changes in the landscape of Japan's music business and culture. Music lovers can now choose their favorite songs from among 1 million songs offered by iTunes Music Store. With Apple's entry into the Japanese market, an increasing...
BUSINESS
Aug 6, 2005

KDDI's 3-G subscriber numbers pass 19 million

KDDI Corp. said Friday the number of subscribers to its third-generation mobile phone service topped 19 million late last month, three years and four months after the video-capable service was launched.
BUSINESS
Jul 26, 2005

Girding for competition, KDDI to absorb Tu-Ka units

KDDI Corp. said Monday it will absorb its Tu-Ka cellular phone subsidiaries on Oct. 1 as part of efforts to prepare itself for greater competition in the wireless telephone market.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2005

Industrial output falls 2.3% on slumping demand

Industrial production declined a seasonally adjusted 2.3 percent in May from the previous month due to weakened demand for motor vehicles, computers and mobile phone devices, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2005

Shareholders' meetings going online

In another move to secure the loyalty of individual shareholders, nearly 400 Japanese companies have allowed or will allow individual investors to vote via mobile phones or personal computers for this year's general shareholders' meetings, which will peak Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2005

Yahoo Japan, DeNA to draft voluntary antipiracy rules

Yahoo Japan Corp. and DeNA Co. said Tuesday they have begun compiling voluntary regulations on the trading of illegally copied brand-name goods and counterfeit software.
JAPAN
Jun 5, 2005

Startup seeks cell-phone capital

IP Mobile Inc., a data communications startup, has asked several firms for fresh capital to help it enter the cell-phone business, company officials said Saturday.
BUSINESS
Jun 1, 2005

DoCoMo to mix home, cell phones

NTT DoCoMo Inc. will enable subscribers to use their handsets as fixed-line phones at home, President Masao Nakamura said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
May 20, 2005

Terrestrial digital radio to get early start in 2006

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications will allow terrestrial digital radio broadcasting to begin in 2006, five years earlier than originally planned, ministry officials said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Apr 28, 2005

Sony net profit skyrockets 85%

Sony Corp. said Wednesday its consolidated net profit for fiscal 2004 surged 85.1 percent to 163.84 billion yen, thanks to a strong performance by its movie unit.
BUSINESS
Apr 28, 2005

DoCoMo, SMFG in credit-card tieup

NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. said Wednesday they agreed to enter a capital tieup to offer a credit-payment service using DoCoMo mobile phones.
BUSINESS
Apr 19, 2005

Toshiba EMI to end ring-tone cartel

Toshiba EMI Ltd. said Monday it has accepted a Fair Trade Commission order to end a cartel in mobile phone ring-tone services.
BUSINESS
Apr 15, 2005

Toyota boosts car wireless service

Toyota Motor Corp. on Thursday announced a beefed up wireless system for cars that can call an ambulance when an air bag opens, play thousands of karaoke tunes and send a mobile-phone message when a car door is left unlocked.
BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2005

Sharp logs strong quarter on LCDs

Sharp Corp. on Tuesday reported an 18 percent gain in profit for the third fiscal quarter on healthy demand for liquid crystal display television sets and mobile phones with digital cameras.
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2005

NTT gives up on IC card pay phones

NTT East Corp. and NTT West Corp. said Thursday they will abolish 50,000 public pay telephones that accept IC-embedded phone cards by March 31, 2006.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 25, 2004

Vodafone to play 3G hardball with customers

Vodafone K.K. President Shiro Tsuda has said the company will stop offering new second-generation cell phone handsets in 2005 to force customers to switch to 3G handsets.
BUSINESS
Nov 11, 2004

EBC upset over bill to ban prepaid cell phones

The European Business Community in Japan on Wednesday criticized a plan by Japan's governing coalition to present a bill to the Diet, possibly during the current session, to ban the use and sale of prepaid mobile phones on grounds that they are often used in crimes.
BUSINESS
Oct 30, 2004

DoCoMo reports first fall in first-half earnings, revenue

NTT DoCoMo Inc. on Friday reported its first-ever fall in first-half earnings and revenue since it went public in 1998 due to a discount campaign to prevent its customers from defecting to rivals.
JAPAN
Oct 9, 2004

Cops target black-market sale of bank accounts

The police, justice and financial services authorities have decided to do something about the black-market sale of bank accounts established for fraud crimes, according to National Police Agency officials.
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2004

DoCoMo to halt prepaid services

NTT DoCoMo Inc. plans to discontinue offering prepaid mobile phone services as they are increasingly being used to commit crime, DoCoMo President Masao Nakamura said Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 11, 2004

China takes no chances in Hong Kong poll

HONG KONG -- It is now clear that China is quietly tearing up the fine promises it made in 1984 that Hong Kong would be permitted a high degree of autonomy when China resumed sovereignty over the city after 150 years of British colonial rule. Beijing is going to great lengths to ensure that prodemocracy...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 29, 2004

Think of One

Music and travel may be hobbies for most folks, but Belgian world-rock fusionists, Think of One, consider the two more than mere avocation. More mobile, multilingual and gregarious than a carnival sideshow, To1 have turned globetrotting into a full-time gig. Their journeys in Morroco resulted in three...
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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