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MITSUI

BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 26, 2014
Sumitomo Mitsui reportedly to hire four ex-UBS employees for equities
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. will hire four former UBS AG employees to expand its Japan equity business, according to a source.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 6, 2014
SMBC angles for housing units for seniors before health care REIT IPO
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. is seeking to buy about ¥10 billion in senior housing properties before taking its health-care real estate investment trust public.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 5, 2014
'Hina Dolls of the Mitsui Family'
In Japan, girls are traditionally given hina doll sets, which are put on display throughout the Hinamatsuri (Girls' Festival) season in March each year. Usually, each girl of the family will receive her own set, which she keeps throughout her life.
BUSINESS
Jan 29, 2014
Road urged removed before games
Developer Mitsui Fudosan Co. said Wednesday it is in talks with the government about the removal of a highway near Tokyo Station ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 2, 2014
Mitsubishi, Mitsui pull out of deal to buy Aussie LNG
Mitsubishi Corp. and Mitsui & Co. have withdrawn from an agreement to buy liquefied natural gas from Woodside Petroleum Ltd.'s Browse venture in Australia after delays to the project.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 25, 2013
Sumitomo Mitsui may resume JGB buys once inflation picks up
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., the biggest seller of Japanese government bonds among the nation's three biggest banks, may start buying again once inflation picks up, President Koichi Miyata said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 17, 2013
Itai-itai victims settle with Mitsui Mining
Victims of itai-itai disease and the company responsible for the pollution-related malady reach a settlement over compensation after decades of legal battles.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2013
Cadmium poisoning redress eyed
Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co. intends to pay ¥600,000 in compensation to those it poisoned by cadmium in one of Japan's worst industrial disasters.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 13, 2013
Sumitomo Mitsui to buy U.S. rail car lease firm
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. has agreed to buy railroad car-leasing company Flagship Rail Services LLC from a unit of Perella Weinberg Partners.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 15, 2013
Mitsubishi UFJ, Mizuho bump up profit goals
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. and Mizuho Financial Group Inc. raised their full-year profit goals after the economic revival spurred lending and an equity rally boosted fees and the value of their shareholdings.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2013
Mizuho has more loans to the mob
Mizuho Bank has outstanding loans to yakuza and other antisocial elements apart from car loans extended through its affiliate credit company, Orient Corp., President Yau00adsuu00adhiu00adro Sau00adto tells the Diet.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2013
Sumitomo Mitsui affiliate may have extended loans to crime groups
Loans screened by a credit company under Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group are suspected to have been extended to people linked to organized crime and other antisocial forces, Sumitomo Mitsui President Koichi Miyata says.
BUSINESS
Nov 12, 2013
Mitsui Fudosan, partners said seeking OK for Odaiba casino-resort complex
Mitsui Fudosan Co., the nation's largest property developer, is seeking approval for an entertainment complex and resort in Tokyo with construction firm Kajima Corp. and Fuji Media Holdings Inc.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2013
Memorial marks 1963 mine disaster
A memorial ceremony was held Saturday to mark the 50th anniversary of the country's worst mine accident in the postwar era.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 11, 2013
Japan credit card sales seen accelerating on stock rally
Japanese credit card transactions will accelerate this year as rising stock prices boost consumer confidence and spending, according to Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc.'s card unit.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 4, 2013
'Special Exhibition: Momoyama Ceramic Masterpieces — Shino, Ki-seto, Seto-guro and Oribe Wares'
The ceramics in this exhibition date to the late-Momoyama Period (1573-1615) and all hail from the Mino Province in modern-day Gifu Prefecture. Four kinds of Mino ceramic ware became representative of the Momoyama Period — Shino (thick white glaze with red marks), Ki-Seto (yellow glaze and green blemishes),...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 17, 2013
Japan's population of ghouls keeps coming back to haunt us
Caught up in the rush of modernity, it is sometimes easy to forget just what a unique and unusual country Japan is. An exhibition such as "Yokai: Demons, Folklore Creatures and GeGeGe no Kitaro" serves to remind us, by peeling back the surface of everyday life and showing us the "collective subconsciousness"...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Jul 14, 2013
Japanese players show streetball flair
Masayuki Kabaya wanted Hideki Mitsui to shoot the rock. Actually, he was daring him to shoot it.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Jul 13, 2013
Mitsui earns trip to streetball finals at Alcatraz Island
Hideki Mitsui is headed to one of the world's most famous prisons, where the "Tokyo No. 1 Boss Dog" will try his hand at ruling the yard.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 3, 2013
'Yokai: Demons, Folklore Creatures and GeGeGe no Kitaro'
In collaboration with broadcasters NHK, the Mitsui Memorial Museum continues its annual summer exhibition series with an exploration of the history of the ghosts and demons of Japanese folklore: the yokai. Through an extensive collection of noh masks, handscrolls, ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) and more,...
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Japan's average life expectancy rises for first time in three years
A decline in COVID-19-caused deaths likely helped boost the average life expectancy for Japanese men and women to rise for the first time in three years in 2023.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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