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BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2001

Cabbies, waiters and retailers predict a slowdown

Taxi drivers, waiters and workers in other sectors considered close to the man on the street in January were more pessimistic about the economy than in any other month since the government began conducting its so-called Economy Watchers poll a year earlier, the Cabinet Office said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2001

Government to consider towel influx

The government will look into the issue of surging towel imports from China if domestic towel makers want it to do so, Vice Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry Katsusada Hirose said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2001

Kamei asks businesses for input

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party's policy affairs chief asked business leaders Thursday for suggestions in response to its plan to lift restrictions on treasury stock.
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2001

Kamei asks businesses for input

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party's policy affairs chief asked business leaders Thursday for suggestions in response to its plan to lift restrictions on treasury stock.
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2001

Bankruptcies down but liabilities rise

Corporate bankruptcies declined 5.8 percent in January from a year earlier to 1,358 for the first decrease in 15 months, but the failed firms' liabilities jumped 60.6 percent to 969.65 billion yen, a private research institute said Thursday.
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Feb 16, 2001

Get out of my inbox

How much e-mail do you get a day? How much of it is junk mail? I get about 80-100 messages daily, and random sampling (i.e., the day I wrote this) shows that about 25 percent was unsolicited mailings, better known as spam.
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2001

Bankruptcies down but liabilities rise

Corporate bankruptcies declined 5.8 percent in January from a year earlier to 1,358 for the first decrease in 15 months, but the failed firms' liabilities jumped 60.6 percent to 969.65 billion yen, a private research institute said Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 16, 2001

The Lucie Blackman case

One piece of a sad, grim puzzle was solved last weekend when police confirmed that human remains found in a beach cave in Kanagawa Prefecture were those of a 21-year-old British woman missing since last July. The other piece of the puzzle -- who killed her, how, where and why -- is not quite in place,...
JAPAN
Feb 16, 2001

Surveyors inspected over rigged bids

The Fair Trade Commission on Thursday inspected more than 10 land surveyors' offices in northeast Japan on suspicion of violating the Antimonopoly Law by rigging bids for public contracts, sources in the industry told Kyodo News.
JAPAN
Feb 16, 2001

Surveyors inspected over rigged bids

The Fair Trade Commission on Thursday inspected more than 10 land surveyors' offices in northeast Japan on suspicion of violating the Antimonopoly Law by rigging bids for public contracts, sources in the industry told Kyodo News.
LIFE / Digital
Feb 16, 2001

From video game to big screen

HONOLULU -- Aki, the scientist/heroine of Square Picture's new movie "Final Fantasy," steps from the door of her space shuttle and surveys the wreckage that is Old New York.
JAPAN
Feb 16, 2001

Mori increasingly under fire

Coalition members joined the opposition in criticizing Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Thursday after it was learned he accepted a 40 million yen membership at a Yokohama golf club from a business executive for virtually nothing.
CULTURE / Music / PLAY BUTTON
Feb 16, 2001

Keeping it pure and personal

There are people who have character and there are people who are characters. Coppe, the coolest musician you've never heard of, is both.
JAPAN
Feb 16, 2001

Mori increasingly under fire

Coalition members joined the opposition in criticizing Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Thursday after it was learned he accepted a 40 million yen membership at a Yokohama golf club from a business executive for virtually nothing.
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2001

New Mitsubishi recalls link 760,000 cars to coverup row

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. on Thursday reported to the transport ministry that it will recall 140,301 Pajero Mini and Pajero Jr. sport-utility vehicles, bringing the number of recall cases it was hiding to 20.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Feb 16, 2001

Somewhere over the rainbow lies a pot of bliss

In any creative activity, our powers of invention stimulate the mind, in much the same way fertilizer in a vineyard helps the grapes grow to make wine. By engaging these powers, particularly insight and synthesization, our mental and creative capacity is nurtured and nourished.
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2001

New Mitsubishi recalls link 760,000 cars to coverup row

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. on Thursday reported to the transport ministry that it will recall 140,301 Pajero Mini and Pajero Jr. sport-utility vehicles, bringing the number of recall cases it was hiding to 20.
SOCCER / World cup
Feb 16, 2001

JAWOC apologizes for latest World Cup ticket troubles

Japanese 2002 World Cup organizers JAWOC apologized Thursday for the computer glitch that has delayed Internet applications for tickets for next year's finals in Japan and South Korea.
LIFE / Style & Design / BEAUTY EAST AND WEST
Feb 16, 2001

Scrub a dub dub: DIY spa treatments

Though spring isn't far off, it's that time of year when even the last dregs of winter seem to be lingering too long. To cheer yourself up and conjure up a sense of renewal, give yourself a DIY spa treatment.
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2001

U.S. advertiser agrees to venture

U.S. advertising agency Draftworldwide said Thursday it has agreed to set up a joint venture in Japan with Japanese advertising firm Commons Co. and Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc.
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2001

U.S. advertiser agrees to venture

U.S. advertising agency Draftworldwide said Thursday it has agreed to set up a joint venture in Japan with Japanese advertising firm Commons Co. and Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc.
CULTURE / Music
Feb 16, 2001

Black Eyed Peas try to bring it all back

Whither hip hop? Since it's still relatively young, a better question might be: When will it become as redundant as rock? I think it already has, and not because, musically at least, hip hop is by definition a pastiche, but because thematically it's stuck in a rut.
COMMUNITY
Feb 16, 2001

Japan's designers refuse compromise

Japanese names at the Paris men's collections these days are rather thin on the ground -- at the most recent presentations, for autumn/winter 2001/02, only four Tokyo designers showed.
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2001

Noritsu to make 'minilabs' in China

OSAKA -- Noritsu Koki Co. said Thursday it will set up a wholly owned subsidiary and plant in Shanghai to start making "minilab" photo processing laboratory systems in October.

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