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BUSINESS / GLOBAL HUMAN RESOURCES SYMPOSIUM
Mar 26, 2011

Mix globalization and localization: experts

Companies in advanced economies need to work out new management strategies on globalization, especially as emerging markets account for an increasing portion of worldwide demand, Japanese and German scholars and business executives told a recent symposium in Tokyo.
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BUSINESS
Apr 15, 2010

JBIC vows to help companies regain global edge

The Japan Bank for International Cooperation will take more risks to help companies win overseas projects after they lost bids in Abu Dhabi and Vietnam, the head of the state-run lender said.
LIFE / Digital
Apr 14, 2010

Tech pushes Japan's music scene; industry won't budge

The music business reinvents itself every 20 years or so — basically every time a new format comes down the pike. But the industry has never faced the kind of fundamental challenge presented by the digital file-sharing revolution.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Mar 16, 2010

Crisis-handling goes far beyond apology bow

Toyota Motor Corp. recent massive global recalls and subsequent safety worries should serve as a wakeup call for many Japanese companies seemingly ill-prepared to survive corporate crises.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 3, 2010

Iran's 'mullahnomics' is failing

ISTANBUL — As the standoff between Iran's government and opposition continues, one factor that may determine the outcome, but which is rarely discussed, is the rickety state of the Iranian economy. Will its sclerotic performance ultimately turn out to be what tips the balance?
BUSINESS
Mar 2, 2010

Desperate for jobs, U.S. town awaits Toyota plant

BLUE SPRINGS, Miss. — Terry McShan isn't thinking about car sales analyses or excess capacity when he drives by the idle Toyota plant in northeast Mississippi. He's thinking about his little girl.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Oct 14, 2009

Electric vehicles, touted as next big thing, still in their infancy

Competition has been heating up in the domestic market for electric vehicles and many automakers have been prioritizing the technology since Mitsubishi Motors Corp. launched an egg-shaped electric minivehicle in July.
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JAPAN
Oct 2, 2009

Some taxi firms go that extra mile

Aya Ito takes a taxi every day to bring her twin 1-year-old boys to a nursery at her workplace thanks to a cab company that is friendly to mothers and the elderly.
BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2009

Fallout to hit Japan, parts makers acutely

General Motors Corp.'s filing for bankruptcy protection Monday will have a wide impact on Japan's economy, ranging from further reduced U.S. consumption and car sales to fallout hitting the nation's parts makers, experts said.
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BUSINESS
May 28, 2009

Strong foothold in India keeps Suzuki in the black

While many global automakers incurred huge losses in the 2008 business year, Suzuki Motor Corp.'s limited reliance on the U.S. market and strong foothold in India kept the company in the black.
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JAPAN / EXPLAINER
May 27, 2008

Law bends over backward to allow 'fuzoku'

Some desires money can't gratify, but for appetites of the flesh, there are ways in Japan to legally sate one's carnal cravings.
JAPAN
May 11, 2008

Hu concludes summit with Osaka, Nara events

NARA — Amid the tightest security of his trip, Chinese President Hu Jintao concluded his visit to Japan in the Kansai region this weekend, dining with Osaka political and business leaders on Friday night and seeing the sights in the ancient capital of Nara on Saturday.
BUSINESS
Mar 14, 2008

Toshiba HD DVD losses put at up to ¥100 billion

Toshiba Corp. is still evaluating how its decision to pull out of the HD DVD business will affect its earnings, the company said Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 6, 2008

Going after Google

The high-technology world is abuzz following Microsoft Corporation's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo! Inc. last week. The takeover is an assault on Google's dominance of the online world, and on paper the two companies make a good match. But there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical about the deal's eventual...
BUSINESS / THE VIEW FROM EUROPE
Feb 4, 2008

For Russia and Japan, bad blood not as thick as it seems

The great industrialist Henry Ford once proclaimed "history is bunk." But when it comes to international business, this wisdom does not always prevail.
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LIFE
Jan 14, 2007

Get out of this world

Forget Hawaii, Hong Kong, Bali, Britain or Paris -- before too long your family vacation choices will include staying at space hotels or taking a 10-day spin around the moon.
BUSINESS
Dec 16, 2006

'Tankan' rise fuels rate hike talk

Business confidence at large manufacturers rose slightly in the three months to December, according to the Bank of Japan's quarterly "tankan" survey released Friday, fueling speculation the central bank's second interest rate hike in about six years could come next month.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Nov 25, 2006

Takeya Yamasaki

"I have been learning and enjoying cha-no-yu for more than half a century.
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2006

ACCJ seeks to deepen U.S.-Japan economic ties

Japan and the United States should revitalize their economic partnership by creating a new bilateral mechanism to ensure sustained growth, the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan said in a report Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 24, 2006

An altered state of recovery

The Cabinet Office said in its monthly economic report for October that the current economic expansion, now in its 57th month, has tied Japan's longest "boom" of the postwar period, which occurred during the second half of the 1960s. With the current economic recovery expected to continue, it is certain...
BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2006

Despite Oji's likely failure, M&As catching on

Japan appears to have entered a new era of mergers and acquisitions with Oji Paper Co.'s recent takeover bid for Hokuetsu Paper Mills Ltd.
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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 17, 2006

Curtain rises on Tokyo International Anime Fair

From popular TV series and unreleased work to cutting-edge production technology, everything the domestic animation industry has to offer will be at the 5th Tokyo International Anime Fair 2006, from March 23 to 26 at the Tokyo Big Sight.

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Koichi Tagawa’s diary entry from Aug. 9, 1945, describes the day of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
The horrors of Nagasaki, in first person