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NIKKEI

BUSINESS
Jul 24, 2015
Long history of money-losers for Japan Inc.
Here we go again?
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 24, 2015
Nikkei snaps up London's Financial Times for $1.3 billion
Japanese media group Nikkei has agreed to buy the Financial Times from Britain's Pearson for $1.3 billion, putting one of the world's premier business newspapers in the hands of a company influential at home but little known outside Japan.
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Jul 21, 2015
Japan's pension fund backs in so-called shame gauge
Japan's pension fund is so big that a $13.5 billion investment barely makes the footnotes.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 8, 2015
China tries Japan's approach to stock bubble
The longer Xi Jinping delays weaning China's economy off excessive investment, the more Lehman-like the fallout will be.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Jul 5, 2015
Media redraw battle lines in bid for global reach
Something significant happened in April that attracted only desultory press coverage, so let's give it some more.
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.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Mar 24, 2015
Japan holds its own among Asia's best
A day before Asia's 50 Best 2015 awards ceremony earlier this month, chef Mitsuharu Tsumura (affectionately known as Micha) was up and about making ceviche, a cured seafood dish, at a Peruvian ceviche master class.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 24, 2015
Brazilians, Japanese and the virtues of integration
Japan can strengthen its future by integrating foreigners and rejecting voices that call for separation.
JAPAN / 70 YEARS OF PEACE AND PROSPERITY
Jan 5, 2015
Numbers tell tale of Japan's postwar rise and fall
Three charts sum up Japan's fortunes over the past seven decades.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2014
Nikkei server believed victim of 'domain name hijacking'
The Internet server for the Web edition of the Nikkei daily and its Nikkei Asian Review recently came under cyberattack and was altered to direct viewers to other sites, which may have been infected with computer viruses, according to the daily and other reports.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 31, 2014
Wall St. up on GDP, earnings; fund yearend lifts winners
U.S. stocks rose on Thursday, boosted by a strong reading on quarterly economic growth and by another round of upbeat earnings reports, including Visa, which accounted for nearly 140 points in the Dow industrials.
BUSINESS
Oct 20, 2014
GPIF to boost share allocation to about 25%, Nikkei reports
Japan's $1.2 trillion retirement fund will increase its allocation target for shares to about 25 percent from 12 percent, the Nikkei newspaper reported without attribution.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 22, 2014
Posen warns Nikkei could crash if Abe blinks on second stage of tax hike
On the wall of economist Adam Posen's Washington office hangs a framed poster of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film classic, "Seven Samurai."
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 2, 2014
Nikkei to invest in Monocle magazine publisher
Nikkei Inc. said Tuesday it has agreed on a capital and business alliance with Winkontent AG, the publisher of monthly global affairs and lifestyle magazine Monocle, in which Nikkei will take a stake in the London-based magazine.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 18, 2014
Top-paid Nikkei 225 female exec shows Japan gender hurdles
Only one female executive made it to the top-earner list of the Nikkei 225 companies last year. She is an American who lives in New York.
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 8, 2014
Shame index dumps Sony for Panasonic in first revamp
Sony Corp., which has posted losses in five of the past six years, was rejected in the first reshuffle of Japan's profit-oriented stock index while Panasonic Corp. made the cut.
Japan's biggest beef bowl chain Sukiya to shut nearly 2,000 stores after rat and bug contamination
Zensho Holdings, operator of fast-food chain Sukiya, said it will close all of its stores in Japan, except for a small number in shopping centers, between Monday and Friday following recent contamination incidents.
Alert raised for volcano in southwestern Japan
Shinmoedake, a volcano located between Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures, in November 2019
Japan considers all possible options as Trump threatens new auto tariffs
Subaru cars awaiting export at a port in Yokohama on Thursday.
Nankai Trough earthquake could kill 298,000 people, government says
Residents participate in an evacuation drill held with West Japan Railway in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, in January 2024 to prepare for a Nankai Trough earthquake and a possible tsunami following the quake.
A Canadian made a weekend trip to Costco a Japanese pastime
Under the watchful eye of Ken Theriault, Costco representative director and Japan country manager, the American membership-model wholesaler has flourished in Japan.
A Canadian made a weekend trip to Costco a Japanese pastime
Under the watchful eye of Ken Theriault, Costco representative director and Japan country manager, the American membership-model wholesaler has flourished in Japan.
Tokyo tech failures lean into misfortune, mistakes and missteps
Tsuyoshi Domoto in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on March 28. As an entrepreneur, Domoto experienced plenty of setbacks but maintains a positive attitude and continues to pursue his dreams.
Who among the opposition would join the ruling coalition?
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba enters his office in Tokyo on Friday.
Traveling the Three-Star Road, the tourist route made from thin air
Scenes like this snow-covered bridge leading to the village of Shirakawa-go are what make the Three-Star Road worth traveling — its name notwithstanding.
Recent spate of wildfires in Japan and South Korea linked to climate change
Smoke and flames rise from a wildfire in Andong, South Korea, on Tuesday.

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