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BUSINESS
Jul 7, 2011

Fuji Heavy expects 30% profit fall due to Tohoku disaster, high yen

Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., the maker of Subaru-brand cars, expects full-year profit to fall 30 percent after the country's record earthquake in March disrupted production and sales while the yen strengthened, the company said Wednesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 23, 2011

Fukushima crisis opens door for foreign companies

The video screen at the Marunouchi subway entrance in Tokyo Station asks passersby to "Please Help Us Save Energy," a plea repeated throughout the nation in television advertisements warning of summer power shortages.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 21, 2011

Nintendo may fail with new Wii U

Takaki Kawatsu, a 33-year-old real estate agent, says he'll be among Nintendo Co. customers who will pass on the company's next Wii game console.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2011

Shipyards beat rivals in fuel-saving

Japanese shipbuilders, leapfrogged by South Korean and Chinese yards in an industry they once dominated, are counting on fuel-saving technology to help them overcome the stronger yen and high wages.
CULTURE / Art
Jun 9, 2011

World's third-largest art fair ups profile of Asian works

For Japanese artists in need of international exposure, Hong Kong, it seems, is their closest window to the world. Last month, the city's international art fair, ART HK 2011, now in its fourth year, attracted art-lovers from all over the world, including many from mainland China, where the booming economy...
BUSINESS
May 27, 2011

Platinum surplus seen jumping eightfold after quake

The global platinum surplus may jump eightfold after Japan's worst earthquake slashed car production, reducing the country's demand to the lowest level in 28 years, said the nation's top refiner.
BUSINESS
May 10, 2011

Mitsubishi Estate sees lower profit

Mitsubishi Estate Co., Japan's second-biggest developer, said Monday it expects profit to drop 14 percent this business year as apartment sales slow following a record earthquake.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2011

October-December GDP setback exceeds government estimate

The economy contracted more than the government initially estimated in the calendar fourth quarter because of a downward revision to capital investment and consumer spending.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 18, 2011

G-tokyo art fair hopes for another triumph

Although Tokyo is a major world city, its contemporary art scene lacks the allure of its peers. Japanese interest in contemporary art is growing, though, as evidenced by the record 50,000 visitors at last year's Art Fair Tokyo. However, sales remained at the 2009 level, a fraction of what big art fairs...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 18, 2011

Visit Tokyo's 'Frontline' for Japan's contemporary art

Shigeo Goto, director of Tokyo Frontline, a new art fair to start in Tokyo this year, calls himself an "outsider," meaning he considers himself not quite inside Tokyo's commercial "art scene."
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2011

Valentine's Day hits retailers' sweet spot

For 25-year-old Tokyo office worker Ryoko Ejiri, Valentine's Day is about boxes of heart-shaped chocolates. She's not getting them from admirers, she has to buy them for her bosses.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Feb 14, 2011

More reasons to spend money on chocolate, as well as reasons not to

Expressing your true feelings, and obligations, with chocolate is a tricky affair.
BUSINESS
Feb 4, 2011

Toshiba's glasses-free 3-D TVs flop

Toshiba Corp., the first maker of 3-D televisions that don't require the use of special glasses, sold fewer than half the sets it targeted in the initial month of sales.
BUSINESS
Jan 28, 2011

Toyota cut global output last month

Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday its worldwide production of vehicles fell for the fourth straight month in December, dented by falling output in Japan after subsidies for green cars expired.
BUSINESS
Jan 22, 2011

Shiseido plans 15% annual China growth

Cosmetics maker Shiseido Co. is seeking to increase sales in China by 15 percent or more every year as rising incomes in the world's fastest-growing major economy spur demand for consumer products.
BUSINESS
Nov 30, 2010

Toshiba to sell low-cost TVs in Southeast Asia

Toshiba Corp. will introduce a line of low-cost television models in December in an effort to double sales to ¥40 billion in Southeast Asian countries, including Indonesia and Vietnam, the head of the TV unit said.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Nov 15, 2010

Electronics retailers likely to phase out point systems

Retailers fret that life after the eco-point system is abolished won't be so bright.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 16, 2010

Professor finds meaning in silence

In Japanese there's a word for it, that prolonged silence that cuts into a conversation, bringing discomfort and interrupting flow: shiin. We've all experienced that dead-air tension, but surprisingly there are different levels of comfort with silence, depending on the language being spoken.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Sep 9, 2010

Car makers try to stave off the inevitable

The offer of tax rebates on eco-friendly cars ends Sept. 30, but car makers, happy with high sales, are sweetening the deal.
Japan Times
JAPAN / THE TROUBLE AT TOYOTA
Sep 3, 2010

Slow response made perfect storm worse

While the intense speculation that Toyota Motor Corp. may have covered up electronic defects appears to have ebbed, Japanese experts say the world's top automaker deserves a failing grade for its risk management, and the resulting damage to its reputation was worse than it should have been.
JAPAN
Aug 14, 2010

Japanese whiskeys get foothold in U.S.

SAN FRANCISCO — It was not too long ago that Owen Westman's customers at Rickhouse Bar did not even know there were Japanese whiskeys available, let alone ask for them by name.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Aug 7, 2010

The strategy behind non-alcoholic beer

Non-alcoholic beers have been a big hit for beer makers in Japan, especially when you factor in the fact that they aren't taxed.
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Police arrest man after body of ex-girlfriend found under his home
Hideyuki Shirai (center) at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Saturday
Dollar’s decline is fueling dislocations across Asian currencies
A worker counts U.S. dollar banknotes at a currency exchange office in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2022.
Tariff talks with U.S. seen influencing Japan's Upper House election
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks to reporters about Japan-U.S. tariff negotiations at his official residence on Saturday.
‘Drop the price’: Behind the pushback on Nintendo’s Switch 2
Excitement for Nintendo's next console is high, but a vocal contingent of fans are voicing criticism over the company's pricing strategy.
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Kotomi Li: 'I refuse to choose death'
Since 2017, Kotomi Li has won some of Japan’s top literary awards and built a formidable career in the face of persistent online harassment. “Authors are tenacious creatures to begin with,” she says.
Want to see the future at the Osaka Expo? Get in line.
“‘Future of life,’ by Ishiguro,” the World Expo pavilion by roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, displays humanlike androids.
Despite shifts in Japan's political landscape, constitutional revision still far off
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has been a staunch advocate for constitutional reform.
Kawasaki can hold its head high after spirited Asian Champions League effort
Frontale players grimace during the final of the Asian Champions League on Saturday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Kawasaki lost 2-0 against heavily favored Al-Ahli.

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