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M3 INC

JAPAN / Media
Sep 28, 2015
PR firm Sunny Side Up Inc. to buy Tokyo Weekender publisher BC Media Group
Sunny Side Up Inc., a Tokyo-based public relations agency, announced Friday it will purchase Bulbous Cell Media Group, which publishes the English-language magazine Tokyo Weekender.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 23, 2015
Startups untapped resource for Japan Inc., says venture capitalist
Venture capitalist Anis Uzzaman has a special affinity for Japan, where he spent five years studying at a university on government scholarships. It's for that reason he is frustrated to see many Japanese firms struggling in global competition.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 16, 2015
Japan flying surplus fish across Asia as domestic demand falls
The country that gave the world sushi now finds itself with too much fish.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 3, 2015
Regenerative medicine to get boost from deregulation in Japan
On a cloudy morning in the Tokyo suburb of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Yoshiyuki Sankai points excitedly to a slide of severed spinal cords. They belong to rats, and he has used cell technology to help reconnect the nerves.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 28, 2015
Diet passes bill aimed at boosting women in the workplace
The Diet passed a bill Friday aiming to promote the role of women in the workplace, along with greater female participation in the economy at a time when the country's population is expected to shrink further.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 31, 2015
Japan's Enron reckoning
The Toshiba scandal should be an impetus for the Abe government to do even more to improve corporate governance.
EDITORIALS
Jul 23, 2015
Learning from the Toshiba scandal
It remains to be seen if the exit of Toshiba's top executives will change the corporate culture that produced the massive accounting scandal.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 23, 2015
Japanese investors finding voice amid Abe push for independence
The votes are in: Japanese investors are finding it easier to say no.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 21, 2015
Toshiba's accounting scandal among biggest in Japan corporate history
Toshiba Corp.'s ¥152 billion ($1.2 billion) accounting scandal, caused by top executives setting unrealistic profit targets, ranks among the largest in Japanese corporate history.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 2, 2015
Haneda airport to be used as testing ground for robot technology
Tokyo's Haneda airport is set to become a testing ground for new robot technologies under a joint project announced Thursday by its operator and leading robot developer Cyberdyne Inc.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 29, 2015
The kabuki art of public apology
Until Japanese CEOs back up their apologies with concrete action, their words will ring hollow — as will government efforts to improve the sorry state of the country's corporate governance.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2015
Outgoing JPX chief brushes off media concerns about earnings leaks to Nikkei
The outgoing head of Japan's top bourse is unperturbed about a disclosure practice that has characterized the nation's stock market for years.
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2015
Government puts Japan Tobacco sell-off on back burner without immediate need for cash
The central government has decided to push back the sale of its remaining stake in Japan Tobacco Inc., Asia's largest listed cigarette-maker, according to officials familiar with the matter.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 4, 2015
Tomy, Docomo unveil conversational robot toy
Tomy Co. on Thursday introduced a conversation robot jointly developed with NTT Docomo Inc. that it claims can hold "natural" conversations with people.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 29, 2015
Japan Post names ex-Goldman's Sago to head asset management
Japan Post Holdings Co. hired Katsunori Sago, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executive in the country, as head of asset management at its banking unit as it reallocates its portfolio.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
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.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
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.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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