search

 
 
BUSINESS
Feb 18, 2005

BTM to cover cash-card theft

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi is preparing to compensate customers whose accounts were compromised by counterfeit cash cards to the tune of about 300 million yen, sources said.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 18, 2005

Restaurant t.r: A 't.r iffic' little diner

One of Tokyo's unique pleasures is being able to eat out in restaurants that are no bigger -- and often considerably smaller -- than your own living room. There are thousands of places around the city with kitchens the size of closets and counters that seat less than a dozen, but which nonetheless serve...
BUSINESS
Feb 18, 2005

Protect Japan firms from foreigners: JCCI

The chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry called on the government Thursday to implement measures to protect domestic companies from takeover bids by foreign firms.
BUSINESS
Feb 18, 2005

Cell phone firms losing battle against junk mail

Cell phone users in Japan are being swamped with junk e-mail despite all-out efforts by telephone companies to combat the nuisance.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Feb 17, 2005

Giants force Uehara to put MLB dreams on hold -- for now

Yomiuri Giants right-hander Koji Uehara has given up on his plans to move to the major leagues this season through the posting system and is set to sign a new deal with the Central League club, it was learned Wednesday.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 17, 2005

Q-chan likely to skip world championships

Sydney Olympic champion Naoko Takahashi, who is trying to make a comeback after a fractured right ankle, is unlikely to compete at the world championships in Helsinki this August after deciding to extend a scheduled one-month training camp.
EDITORIALS
Feb 17, 2005

Pyongyang ups the ante

North Korea has announced that it has nuclear weapons and that it is abandoning multilateral talks designed to keep the Korean Peninsula free of them. Still, there is less to Pyongyang's declaration than meets the eye. North Korea has indicated in the past that it possessed nuclear arms, and its disdain...
COMMENTARY
Feb 17, 2005

Racist banner looks frayed

Understanding Japan and the Japanese was never meant to be easy. This is especially true for the Japanese attitude to foreigners -- at times exclusivist and at other times extremely open. There is an answer to the seeming contradiction, but it requires outsiders to accept that the Japanese might have...
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2005

Fuji TV kicks Livedoor's Horie off quiz show in latest takeover salvo

Fuji Television Network Inc. said Wednesday it has dropped Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie as a regular participant on one of its weekly quiz shows, citing the two firms' battle for control of a radio broadcaster.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2005

LDP panel endorses U.S. cow test

The Liberal Democratic Party has approved a decision by the health and agriculture ministries to accept a U.S.-proposed cattle age verification method, LDP lawmakers said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2005

Vstone leader Yamato gears up for RoboCup

OSAKA -- Members of Team OSAKA bubbled over with excitement after their teammate scored a goal in a penalty-kick shootout, leading the team to victory in a sort of world soccer championship. The little goal-scorer is a 39-cm humanoid robot named VisiON.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2005

Mazda opens hydrogen gas station

Mazda Motor Corp. said Wednesday it recently opened a hydrogen filling station near its headquarters in Hiroshima Prefecture for the development of hydrogen rotary vehicles.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2005

DHL poised to grab ever-increasing share of Asia-Pacific mart -- especially China

DHL, the world's leading international express and logistics company, is flying high over China, stepping up infrastructure investment geared to capitalize on fast-growing intra-Asia/Pacific trade, in particular Japan-China trade.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2005

Tax offices start accepting '04 returns

Regional tax offices nationwide began accepting 2004 income tax returns Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2005

Kyoto pact draws mixed views from business chiefs

Japanese business leaders urged the government Wednesday to work hard to make the Kyoto Protocol, which took effect Wednesday, an effective international treaty.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2005

Economist to join BOJ policy panel

The government plans to appoint Kiyohiko Nishimura, an economics professor at the University of Tokyo, to the Bank of Japan's policy-setting panel in April, government officials said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2005

Chubu airport has high air-freight hopes

When Central Japan International Airport in Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture, opens Thursday, it hopes to become the nation's main international air freight hub.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2005

Ex-MMC chief to head U.S. unit

Hideyasu Tagaya, who resigned last month as president of ailing Mitsubishi Motors Corp., will become chairman of the automaker's North American unit effective March 1, according to company sources.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2005

Centrair chief brimming with confidence

Central Japan International Airport, opening today near Nagoya, will serve as a key center for the exchange of people, commodities and information between Japan and the rest of the world, said Yukihisa Hirano, president of the new airport's operating company.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2005

Fuji Photo wins camera patent row

Fuji Photo Film Co. said Wednesday the Court of Appeals for the U.S. Federal Circuit has decided in favor of Fuji's claim that a U.S. firm infringed upon its patents for single-use cameras.
Japan Times
Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
Feb 17, 2005

Gold objet on top of Super Dry Hall

Dear Alice,
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Feb 17, 2005

Natural numbers games

As island nations go, I have always maintained that Japan sits on a motherlode of biodiversity; it is rich in so many senses of the word.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Feb 16, 2005

Golden Eagles inspire look back at MLB expansion teams

Much of the excitement building toward the opening of the 2005 Japan pro baseball season centers around the new Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. The Pacific League expansion team will, weather permitting, play its inaugural game Saturday, March 26, against the Chiba Lotte Marines at Chiba Marine Stadium....
EDITORIALS
Feb 16, 2005

Flawed compromise takes effect

The Kyoto Protocol on climate change takes effect Wednesday after more than seven years of difficult and complex negotiations aimed at reducing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases. Perhaps future generations will remember Feb. 16, 2005, as the day the world launched a determined...
COMMENTARY
Feb 16, 2005

Answering Pyongyang's divisive tack

HONOLULU -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's initial response to Pyongyang's surprise announcement that it felt compelled to suspend its participation in the six-party talks and that it had manufactured nukes was exactly right.
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2005

Prospective home owners warming to made-to-order condos

Made-to-order condominiums are gaining popularity in Japan as people seek more distinct housing.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Feb 16, 2005

Sisters gonna work it out

There was a time when radio in the United States was full of surprises -- a time when catchy, clever tunes were just a turn of the dial away. Pop music carried less baggage then, before marketing and demographics moved in and warped station programming into socio-economic formulas.
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2005

Bankruptcies decrease for 25th month

January saw 1,039 corporate bankruptcies filed nationwide, down 13.8 percent from a year earlier for the 25th straight month of decline, a private-sector corporate credit research agency said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2005

With ANA back in black, next chief eyes new overseas routes

Chicago, Delhi, Bombay and Moscow.

Longform

Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years