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NOMURA

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 22, 2019
Nomura Holdings CEO Koji Nagai vows to cut costs and keep struggling brokerage independent
Nomura Holdings Inc.'s chief executive vowed to keep Japan's biggest brokerage independent and quickly implement his latest turnaround plan as a slumping share price puts the question of a potential merger in focus.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 11, 2019
Nomura shares sink as investors flee amid skepticism about revival plans
Nomura Holdings Inc.'s latest attempt to revamp its international business is falling flat with investors, who have never been so downbeat on the stock relative to global peers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 5, 2019
Nomura to reduce outlets in Japan by 20%
Nomura Holdings Inc. said Thursday it will reduce the number of its sales outlets in Japan by at least 30, or 20 percent of its 156 domestic outlets, as part of structural reform measures.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 22, 2019
Line hopes app's links with Japan's Mizuho and Nomura can open 78 million wallets
Line Corp. is betting that tie-ups with Japan's biggest financial institutions will help convince its 78 million users to entrust the free texting app with their money.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 20, 2018
Japan's artistic rebels of the 1980s
While nothing so much as an epochal rupture occurred, 1980s' artists in Japan were reactive to the lingering concerns of the '70s — in that decade, oil painting and sculpture were mostly passe, while modernism appeared exhausted.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 29, 2018
SoftBank hopes for home advantage as Japan Series shifts to Fukuoka
The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks are finally back home.
Japan Times
CULTURE
Oct 20, 2018
Japonismes 2018 seeks to break down cultural stereotypes
A stupendous full autumn moon, bright orange and fat, flashes intermittently between the nondescript high-rise flats and offices on the drive to Charles de Gaulle Airport. It's an apt and beautiful reminder of one of the events that we, a group of Tokyo-based editors and writers, were invited to see...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 31, 2018
Olympic ceremonies promised to be full of 'Japaneseness' but will carry a worldwide message
Classical actor and director Mansai Nomura promised Tuesday that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic opening and closing ceremonies will be full of "Japaneseness" and "wit," one day after the games' organizing committee named him chief executive creative director for the four events.
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2018
Kyogen actor Mansai Nomura to oversee Tokyo 2020 ceremonies
Actor Mansai Nomura will orchestrate the opening and closing ceremonies for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, it was announced Monday.
BUSINESS
Jul 6, 2018
Ex-Nomura trader must defend bond-case dismissal in higher U.S. court
Prosecutors are pressing their attack on questionable practices used by bond traders, appealing a judge's decision to toss out the conviction of a former Nomura Holdings Inc. managing director caught up in the sputtering U.S. crackdown.

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Professional cleaner Hirofumi Sakurai takes a moment to appreciate some photographs in a Gotanda apartment whose occupant died alone.
The last cleanup: Life and death in a lonely Japan