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COMMENTARY
Mar 22, 2004

Cracking police shell games

Police in Hokkaido, Shizuoka and Fukuoka prefectures have allegedly misused taxpayers' money. A number of active and retired officers have disclosed that money appropriated for phony business trips and investigative activities was diverted to slush funds.
BUSINESS
Mar 17, 2004

Key nations expected to see workforce expansion

Manpower Japan Co. said Tuesday that nations such as Japan and the U.S. are expected to see a sharp increase in jobs in the April-June period from the previous quarter.
BUSINESS
Mar 13, 2004

Corporate bankruptcies slipped 23.8% in February

The number of corporate bankruptcies in Japan fell 23.8 percent in February from a year earlier to 1,208, marking a 14th straight month of decrease, Teikoku Databank Ltd. said Friday.
Japan Times
Events
Mar 12, 2004

Diagnosing what really ails Japan, Germany

BERLIN -- Japan and Germany, once the powerful engines of the global economy together with the United States, have had stagnant years since the 1990s.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2004

Let China decide yuan's fate

CAMBRIDGE, England -- The Americans are at it again. Unable to get their own economic house in order, they have sent a team to Beijing to try to force China to revalue the yuan.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Feb 22, 2004

The Great White Yonder: Japan's 'Siberia'

Once upon a time, there was a chilly little town by the sea. It had ice and snow to spare, but not a single winter resort facility. Its fading downtown managed to be both antiquated and charmless. Fishing, once the lifeblood of the town, had seen its best days, and for every new inhabitant, more than...
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2004

New 'happoshu' brew earns Asahi record profits

Industry leader Asahi Breweries Ltd. reported Friday a record net profit for 2003, buoyed by strong sales of a newly introduced "happoshu" beerlike beverage.
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2004

FSA to allow registered companies to enter trust business

The Financial Services Agency plans to allow individuals and nonfinancial firms to register to set up trust companies with limited operations.
Japan Times
Features
Feb 15, 2004

Laughs and tears in life at Lily's

Lil is a woman who knows a thing or two about survival.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Feb 14, 2004

Roland Thompson

His happiest memory, Roland Thompson says, is of his training, and learning advanced techniques, in Soke Shioda's black-belt aikido classes. His saddest memory is of the day Shioda died. He regards himself as "very fortunate to have been with him, and to have trained with him, during that last part of...
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Feb 12, 2004

Classic game builds on game classic

Nintendo's Metroid has always been more popular in the United States and Europe than in Japan, but I'm really not sure why. The series follows the adventures of Samus, a female microbe-massacring bounty-hunter/astronaut, in some truly incredible space armor.
BUSINESS
Jan 26, 2004

FSA eyes 'rebuilding' of borrowers

The Financial Services Agency will strictly assess banks' ongoing plans to reconstruct struggling large-lot borrowers and may order remedial measures if little improvement is found in the borrowers' earnings conditions, informed sources said Saturday.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2004

EBank logs first monthly black ink

The online bank eBank Corp. said Friday it posted a pretax profit of 19 million yen in December, its first black ink on a monthly basis since it started operating in July 2001.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 14, 2004

A fail-safe genre that rarely misfires

Hollywood Homicide Rating: * * * (out of 5) Director: Ron Shelton Running time: 111 minutes Language: English Opens Jan. 24 [See Japan Times movie listings] It's interesting to see the different fates allotted to those stars who've entered what used to be termed their "twilight years."...
EDITORIALS
Jan 10, 2004

Postcards from the red planet

We Earthlings have been to Mars before, of course. Dozens of times we've visited it in our imaginations, giving it special status as a far-off symbol of our own lust for war and the focus of all our fears and fantasies of extraterrestrial invasion -- Mars as the original red menace.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 1, 2004

Salaryman blues? Don't worry, be happy on less

Few people may think economist Takuro Morinaga and investment guru Robert Kiyosaki have anything in common.
JAPAN
Dec 27, 2003

Prosecutors appeal Yasuda ruling

Tokyo prosecutors on Friday appealed a lower court ruling that found the chief defense attorney for Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara not guilty of obstructing the compulsory seizure of rental income used by a client as collateral in the 1990s.
JAPAN
Dec 25, 2003

Corporate outlays on entertainment plummet 4.4%

Corporations spent an estimated 3.74 trillion yen on entertainment in the 12 months through last January, down 4.4 percent from the previous year and falling for the sixth year in a row, National Tax Agency data show.
BUSINESS
Dec 25, 2003

Relief eyed for small firms set to go bust

Help may be on the way at last for small business owners who fear being stripped to nothing if their firms go bust.
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2003

Tertiary activity saw 1.1% rise in October

The tertiary industry activity index rose 1.1 percent in October from September for a third straight monthly increase, the government said Monday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Dec 12, 2003

'Land of Fire' with history burning in its mokkosu heart

Few things puff up local pride like a local hero. Sendai dotes on its "One-Eyed Dragon," warrior Date Masamune. Kagoshima loves its plump 19th-century rebel Saigo Takamori. And Kumamoto adores its old daimyo lord Kato Kiyomasa.
BUSINESS / FRONT-RUNNERS
Dec 9, 2003

Purifier firm had rough patch but overall well-oiled

After facing bankruptcy less than five years ago, Sanmi Corp. has fought back to become the nation's leading producer of oil purifiers for power plants and home appliance companies, according to its president, Hisayoshi Tamaru.
BUSINESS
Dec 4, 2003

Survey finds firms short of manpower

Companies short of manpower in November outnumbered those with too many workers for the first time in almost six years.
EDITORIALS
Dec 4, 2003

Returning a bank to health

The collapse of Ashikaga Bank, a major regional bank in Tochigi Prefecture, shows that Japan's debt-heavy banking system is not yet out of the woods. The government, which has nationalized the bank temporarily, is expected to provide a cash injection of more than 1 trillion yen. The bank will be sold...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 28, 2003

Sumitomo Mitsui unit seeks another bailout

Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Co. said Thursday it will seek yet another bank bailout as it slid into negative net worth of 33 billion yen during the fiscal first half.
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2003

Temple seeks special-zone status to ease its regulatory binds

Temple University Japan is seeking government designation as a special deregulation zone entity in a bid to make itself more attractive to students, according to its dean.

Longform

Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan