Search - business

 
 
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2008

Global woes threaten to blight BOJ's recovery scenario: Noda

The Bank of Japan's expectation that the economy will soon pull out of its current stagnation was questioned Thursday by board member Tadao Noda, who predicted that global growth will slow further.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 25, 2008

Misuse of the inaction argument

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — One commonly repeated argument for doing something about climate change sounds compelling, but turns out to be almost fraudulent. It is based on comparing the cost of action with the cost of inaction, and almost every major politician in the world uses it.
Reader Mail
Sep 25, 2008

Nomura made a valuable haul

It comes as no surprise that the power house Nomura Holdings Inc. has stepped in to snap up the Asian operations of Lehman Brothers and its "significant asset base." Many people might be left scratching their heads in light of current market conditions, but for someone in the recruiting business in Japan...
BUSINESS
Sep 25, 2008

Kowa, Teva to form generic drug venture

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., the world's biggest maker of generic drugs, and Kowa Co. have agreed to form a joint venture to gain a share of the growing market for cheaper medicines in Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Sep 25, 2008

Lindsay Kemp's Virgin Queen comes to Japan

It was a scorching day in July and the air in Tokyo's concrete jungle was shimmering in the heat. But on a visit here prior to next month's opening of his voluptuous production "Elizabeth I: the Last Dance" at Theatre Cocoon, avant-garde performance-art icon Lindsay Kemp — a self-described "stranger...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Sep 25, 2008

An incomprehensible answer for modernity

Check the film listings and you'll find Akira Emoto cast in at least 10 movies playing this autumn. Since winning the Japan Academy Awards prize for supporting actor in 1983 and '97 and for leading actor in '98 — for his role in "Kanzo Sensei (Dr. Liver)" — Emoto has become one of Japan's most well...
COMMENTARY
Sep 24, 2008

Comrade Bush and the banks

LONDON — After Comrade George W. Bush nationalized the two giants of the U.S. mortgage market, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, earlier this month, Anatole Kaletsky wrote in The Times of London that "the most capitalist administration ever, in the world's most capitalist country, (has) decided to wipe out...
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Sep 24, 2008

You know IG makes common sense: a re-energized U.S.

What if nations around the world were to adopt intelligent systems that would revolutionize the way we produce and consume energy?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Sep 23, 2008

Vivienne Sato

Vivienne Sato is a unique cultural concierge in Tokyo, full of the lowdown on both high art and mass culture. Vivi knows what and who's happening in the city 24/365, and if she's present, the party is on till the wee-wee hours. Always dressed to the nines — and often to the nine hundreds — with her...
BUSINESS
Sep 23, 2008

Shinsei to take 80% profit hit on Lehman

Shinsei Bank Ltd., the first Japanese bank acquired by overseas investors, said Monday its profit is projected to fall 80 percent on losses from debt extended to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 22, 2008

Rays reach playoffs

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) The playoffs beckoned, and just as they've handled other challenges this season, the Tampa Bay Rays took a leap forward.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / ON THE ROAD
Sep 21, 2008

Low and slow — Nagoya's slice of Southern California

Second of two parts
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Sep 21, 2008

Baseball, brothels and unwelcome photographs

100 YEARS AGO
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / WEEK 3
Sep 21, 2008

Civility penalizes Japan's refs

My first reaction on hearing that a Japanese alliance of sports associations would hold a study weekend on international refereeing was that it was "too little — too late."
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Sep 21, 2008

Marshall bids bj-league farewell

Any new sports league will face bumps on the road to respectability. Players, coaches and front-office types will work incredibly long hours as they strive to give the fans a product they want to care about.
JAPAN
Sep 20, 2008

Lehman workers face a tough job market

Employees of bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. across the globe are suddenly out on the street and looking for new jobs — and the 1,300 at the Japanese unit of the U.S. securities house in Tokyo are no exception.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 19, 2008

What goes around comes around for Russia

Russia invades an eastern European republic, sends its navy to Latin America for military exercises in America's backyard, and threatens to cut off energy supplies to western Europe. This reads like a chapter out of Cold War history.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 19, 2008

Foreign magazines stuck in limbo

The National Azabu supermarket in the posh Minami-Azabu district in Minato Ward, Tokyo, offers an impressive variety of imported foods and other goods. But its selection of foreign magazines and books has been sharply curtailed since July 31, when Yohan Inc., which had a virtual monopoly on the sector,...

Longform

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