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Jul 27, 2018

TSUNEISHI GROUP (ZHOUSHAN) SHIPBUILDING Receives Charitable Company Award
from Zhoushan City

On May 29, TSUNEISHI GROUP (ZHOUSHAN) SHIPBUILDING (Location: Xiushan Island, Daishan County, Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province, China; President: Jiro Sato; hereafter: TZS) received the "Charitable Company Award" in recognition of TZS's wide range of economic activities and other contributions to the...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 4, 2018

Washington grants temporary reprieve to ZTE, allowing Chinese company to maintain U.S. networks

The U.S. Commerce Department on Tuesday granted a temporary reprieve to ZTE Corp. that allows China's No. 2 telecommunications equipment-maker to conduct business needed to maintain existing networks and equipment in the United States as it works toward the lifting of a U.S. sales ban.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2018

GM says U.S. import tariffs could mean 'smaller' company and fewer jobs

General Motors Co. warned on Friday that higher tariffs on imported vehicles under consideration by the Trump administration could cost jobs and lead to "a smaller GM" while isolating U.S. businesses from the global market.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 10, 2018

Uber agrees to buy electric bicycle rental company Jump Bikes

Uber Technologies Inc. is leaping into the bicycle-rental industry with the purchase of Jump Bikes, as CEO Dara Khosrowshahi seeks out new growth areas with his first acquisition.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
May 25, 2017

Printed rocket makes history

Rocket Lab, a Silicon Valley-funded space launch company, on Thursday launched the maiden flight of its battery-powered, 3-D-printed rocket from New Zealand's remote Mahia Peninsula.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 2, 2016

After Japanese merger, world's biggest shipping company hopes for more

A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, owner of the world's largest container line, said mergers like the combination of its three main Japanese rivals provide relief to an ailing industry that has been characterized by over-capacity.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jun 25, 2016

'The Company and the Shogun': A different side to the Dutch East India Co.

"The Company and the Shogun" is an absorbing book about the relationship between Dutch traders in Japan and the Tokugawa Shogunate during the 17th century. Rather than providing an overview of the period, author Adam Clulow focuses on a handful of flashpoints where the Dutch East India Co. (VOC) and...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Apr 2, 2016

Job-hunting students may be in for a shock when they arrive at their new company

It's spring, and the attention of journalists in Japan turns to new university graduates who will soon become productive members of society. In recent years, the recruitment dance has merited closer scrutiny. Even as the labor situation has become a seller's market, issues persist with regard to employee...
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 20, 2015

Kirin buys Myanmar's biggest brewing company for $560 million

Kirin Holdings Co. said it acquired Myanmar's biggest beer company for $560 million (about ¥69.7 billion), as it seeks to expand abroad with an aging population at home reducing domestic demand for its beverages.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 8, 2015

Huge Chinese rail company may be unstoppable with impressive economies of scale

China is forging the country's answer to General Electric, combining two state-owned railroad equipment makers to create the world's second-largest industrial company. And the giant isn't planning to stay at home.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 6, 2015

Nippon Steel, Techint brawl in boardroom as company founders

What started as an alliance to bring balance and direction to Brazil's second-largest steel maker has become a feud spanning three continents that's diluting the company's efforts to navigate a global commodities rout.
BUSINESS / Japan Pulse
Mar 30, 2015

R2-D2 toy keeps fans company and food fresh

A new R2-D2 toy will beep and boop if you accidentally leave the refrigerator door open.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 4, 2015

John Caird delivers home truths with 'Twelfth Night'

As an Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, John Caird may be one of the leading pillars of the English theater establishment, but in a recent interview with The Japan Times, this acclaimed director of plays, musicals and opera declared, "In a sense, some part of me is becoming...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 2, 2014

Eastern China factory blast kills at least 69; two company officials held

China suffered its worst industrial accident in a year on Saturday when an explosion killed at least 69 people and injured more than 120 at a factory that makes wheels for U.S. carmakers, including General Motors.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Apr 5, 2014

A 'black company' comedy and a stock market drama; CM of the week: Takarakuji

The new Fuji TV series, "Black President" (Tues., 10 p.m.), is not about Barack Obama. It's about a man named Mitamura (Ikki Sawamura), an entrepreneur who has turned his apparel company into a national success, mainly by oppressing his workers, which is why his enterprise is called a burakku kigyo (black...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Feb 19, 2014

NNTT debut peers behind the masks of 'Condemned' Sartre family

Until Japan was opened to the West in the mid-19th century, its theater culture mainly comprised traditional forms such as kabuki, comic kyōgen, bunraku (puppet theater) and noh.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 3, 2013

'The Company You Keep'

Robert Redford's career as a director continues its "good liberal" phase, and he's three for three now in films that feature a great cast, political relevance and a distinct inability to take off and soar. After Afghan War intrigue in "Lions for Lambs" and Lincoln assassination courtroom drama in "The...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 8, 2013

Theater groups play together

Fresh from a U.S. tour, "Zero Cost House," the first international collaboration work between Yokohama's Chelfitsch company and Philadelphia's Pig Iron Theatre Company (PITC), opens at Kanagawa Arts Theatre next week with its original U.S. cast.
BUSINESS
Jul 22, 2011

Sony sued by insurance company

Zurich American Insurance Co. sued Sony Corp.'s U.S. unit over its obligation to defend lawsuits and possible probes related to hacking of Sony's PlayStation Network.
Japan Times
LIFE
Jul 10, 2011

Company team helps fill Tohoku gap

At 10:50 p.m. last Monday night, a bus carrying 42 people, mostly employees of the Shangri-La Hotel Tokyo, left the underground car park of the luxury hotel adjacent to JR Tokyo Station.
BUSINESS
May 12, 2011

Insurer buys into Islamic company

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co. is expanding its partnership with Malaysian billionaire Quek Leng Chan's Hong Leong Financial Group Bhd. by acquiring a 35 percent stake in its Islamic insurance unit.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jan 6, 2011

Massage away the blues with sensory therapy

A pot of tea brews next to a bowl of fruit on the kitchen table. Three flying porcelain ducks hang on the wall. A pile of books sits on the shelf. And somewhere in the distance, the sound of bird song mingles with the chime of church bells.
How China waged an infowar against U.S. interests in the Philippines
Association for Philippines-China Understanding (APCU) Chairman Raul Lambino shakes hands with guests during a ceremony for the Award for Promoting Philippines-China Understanding at The Manila Hotel in Manila in June.
‘We have drawn lessons,’ Indian Army chief says of brief clash with Pakistan
Indian Army chief Upendra Dwivedi waves as he arrives to attend the ceremonial reception of Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in New Delhi in May.
Typhoon Halong to cause windstorms, heavy rain and high waves on the Izu islands
Typhoon Halong is moving north near the Izu Islands, with strong winds, high waves and heavy rain expected as it passes early on Thursday, prompting warnings from the weather agency.
Takaichi's leadership lineup favors Aso and his allies while shutting out rivals
The LDP's newly-appointed election chief Keiji Furuya (far left), general affairs council chair Haruko Arimura (second from left), vice president Taro Aso (center left), president Sanae Takaichi (center right), secretary-general Shunichi Suzuki (second from right) and policy chief Takayuki Kobayashi in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Qilin cybercrime gang claims hack on Japan's Asahi
The Asahi Group headquarters complex in Tokyo
OpenAI’s Sora 2 is drowning in Japanese 'AI slop'
OpenAI has rolled out a social app powered by Sora 2, its artificial intelligence video generator, which was quickly flooded with videos featuring iconic Japanese intellectual property.
Trump has his eyes on the prize — but a Nobel win looks unlikely
A protester holds a sign with an image depicting U.S. President Donald Trump and the words "Nobel" written on it, as supporters and family members of hostages who were kidnapped during the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, demonstrate to demand the immediate end of the war and the release of all hostages, outside the U.S. Consulate in Tel Aviv, on Sept. 2.
‘Takaichi trade’ stalls as political reality calls for wait-and-see approach
Tokyo stocks staged a powerful rally on Monday. On Tuesday, they rallied again, then retreated.
‘We have drawn lessons,’ Indian Army chief says of brief clash with Pakistan
Indian Army chief Upendra Dwivedi waves as he arrives to attend the ceremonial reception of Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in New Delhi in May.
How a family-run landscaper turned the Osaka Expo green
The team at Ryokukou Garden consists primarily of a single family, including Toshiki Tanisaki (second from right), who led the company's efforts at the Osaka Expo, Chikako Tanisaki (fifth from right), who performs daily maintanence at the expo, and Takeshi Tanisaki (fourth from right), who added a nursery to the family farm more than 50 years ago.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Growing families are being priced out of Tokyo’s condo market, forced to choose between downtown convenience and suburban space.
Is living in central Tokyo still affordable?
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