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BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 4, 2014

Panasonic profit beats analyst estimates

Panasonic Corp. posted third-quarter profit that beat analysts' estimates as the television maker stops making plasma sets to speed up reforms and recover from back-to-back annual losses.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 3, 2014

National or not, nuclear issue ranks high with Tokyo voters

Nuclear power is one of the top three issues in the Tokyo gubernatorial election and experts say the winner will be able to indirectly influence national energy policy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 3, 2014

Power companies offsetting reactor closures by hiking electricity rates

Power utilities, including Tokyo Electric Power Co., leaned on customer rate hikes to boost their financial performances in the first nine months of the business year as idled nuclear plants kept fuel costs high.
BASKETBALL
Feb 1, 2014

Ex-NBA player Brown parts ways with Sendai due to family emergency

Former NBA forward Andre Brown, whose acquisition was announced by the Sendai 89ers last week, has left the bj-league team before playing in a game.
BASEBALL / MLB
Feb 1, 2014

Yanks ask for help with Tanaka's visa

The New York Yankees have called on New York Sen. Chuck Schumer to speed up Masahiro Tanaka's visa application, so he will be on time for spring training, the New York Daily News reported in its online edition Friday.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS / NFL NOTEBOOK
Feb 1, 2014

Game plans key for both Seahawks, Broncos

Now New Jersey is ready for Super Bowl Sunday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / TELLING LIVES
Jan 31, 2014

Three decades on, Tokyo bluesman is still rambling

'You can't go home again,' but you can take a little bit of home with you wherever you roam. 'Rambling' Steve Gardner does; a Mississippi roots and bluesman based in Tokyo, Gardner travels the world making music and giving seminars about musical history.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 31, 2014

Tokyo gubernatorial candidates speak on Olympics, nuclear power, disasters

Candidates running in the Feb. 9 Tokyo gubernatorial election are making the rounds of the capital, trying to reach out to as many voters as possible.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 31, 2014

Docomo starts to reap benefits from iPhone

NTT Docomo Inc. has strengthened its competitiveness since it began selling popular Apple iPhones in September, President Kaoru Kato said Friday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 30, 2014

SKY Perfect JSAT plans all-Japan channel in Indonesia

SKY Perfect JSAT Corp. announced Thursday it will launch a channel next month in Indonesia that will show Japanese programs around the clock to popularize Japanese content in the growing economy and promote Japan itself.
JAPAN
Jan 29, 2014

Women's rights NGO says Momii must resign

A group that sued NHK over Japan's “comfort women” is calling on its new chairman to resign for his comment that “all countries” had similar wartime systems.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 29, 2014

Nintendo to buy back shares after Wii U flop

Nintendo Co. will spend as much as ¥125 billion buying back shares after Christmas shoppers shunned its Wii U console and games.
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.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 28, 2014

Abe in Diet mum on storm over NHK boss' 'comfort women' stance

Seeking to avoid a political minefield, Prime Minister Shinu00adzo Abe declines to comment on NHK Chairman Kau00adtsuto Momii's recent explosive remark on wartime sexual servitude.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBL NOTEBOOK
Jan 28, 2014

Toshiba sharpshooter Tsuji continues rise to prominence

Toshiba Brave Thunders' Naoto Tsuji is arguably the most prolific player among the NBL's sophomore class in the 2013-14 season.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Jan 28, 2014

Kisenosato injury hands yokozuna quest baton to Kakuryu

Going into the 2014 Hatsu Basho all eyes were on ozeki Kisenosato and his quest to be promoted to yokozuna.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 28, 2014

Ukraine PM offers to resign

Ukraine's prime minister offered his resignation Tuesday to help bring about an end to more than two months of street protests that turned deadly last week and have taken over government buildings across the nation.

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers