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BUSINESS
Mar 9, 2001

Marubeni to invest in China IT firm

Marubeni Corp. said Thursday it has obtained Beijing's approval to take a 10 percent stake in Shanghai Dragon Head Zhangjiang Business & Network, an information technology firm that operates an Internet portal site for textile companies.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW
Mar 8, 2001

Putin plays a bad hand well

"I was deeply touched, when he smiled and looked at us with his blue eyes, my old sweet memories flooded back to me," a middle-aged Soviet-trained Vietnamese woman told the TV crew. The blue eyes in question belonged not to a movie star, but to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was visiting Hanoi,...
BUSINESS
Mar 8, 2001

Book-closing factor may clip dollar's wings

The yen could remain under downward pressure for some time amid growing worries about economic and stock market prospects in Japan.
COMMENTARY
Mar 7, 2001

Agribusiness at a crossroads

LONDON -- Every industrialized country in the world has this idealized image: the farmer, full of robust common sense, tending his pig or his flock on his small land-holding, sturdily helped by his hardworking wife and children. He is close to the earth and nature. It is true that, in Japan or America's...
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2001

Researchers talk of 'Internet car'

Japanese researchers from academic and business circles are joining forces on a government-sponsored project to develop an "Internet car," project planners said Monday.
COMMENTARY
Mar 4, 2001

The media close in on Mori

Media vilification of Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, to the point of virtually forcing his resignation, shows just how easily the major press and TV outlets here can control events in this emotional nation.
BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2001

Firms searched over fumigation cartel

The Fair Trade Commission has searched the offices of four companies on suspicion they formed a cartel to control prices for fumigating plants imported through Narita airport, sources close to the case said Saturday.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2001

NPO fosters solar power solution to fix transport problems for aged

KOBE -- The lack of interest in solar power among residents of Kobe's Uozaki district does not discourage Mana Enomoto from giving detailed explanations of the benefits of this clean energy source.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2001

KSD paid Murakami's 'rent' in cash: prosecutors

Masakuni Murakami, a senior LDP lawmaker who resigned before being arrested in connection with the KSD bribery scandal, had an affiliate of the mutual aid organization hand over the monthly rent for his offices in cash rather than having it paid into a bank account, investigative sources said Saturday....
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2001

Plunge of Nikkei spells more trouble for banks

The plunge of the key Nikkei 225 index on the Tokyo Stock Exchange to a 151/2-year low on Friday brings additional risks for Japanese banks, which are facing escalating pressure to write off bad loans as it is becoming increasingly difficult to do so.
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2001

Fukui to be vice chair of execs' group

Keizai Doyukai, a powerful business group also known as The Japan Association of Corporate Executives, plans to name Toshihiko Fukui, the former senior deputy governor of the Bank of Japan, as a vice chairman.
COMMENTARY
Mar 3, 2001

Two unloved bureaucratic behemoths

LOS ANGELES -- With the free-market Bush administration settling into power, what's to become of those controversial twin pillars of the world economic system, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank? Those two institutions -- both based in Washington, D.C. and sharing reputations for arrogance...
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2001

New debt-waiver rules planned by the FSA

The Financial Services Agency plans to draft guidelines authorizing banks to waive claims on outstanding loans if corporate borrowers agree to spin off or scrap unprofitable divisions, FSA officials have said .
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2001

Lawmaker's firm punished for illegal subcontracting job

The Infrastructure Ministry on Friday punished a construction firm owned by Mamoru Nishida, a former home affairs minister, for making 385.5 million yen from an illegal subcontracting job, ministry officials said.
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2001

Coalition eyes stock-revitalization package, job-creating steps

The government and ruling coalition are devising tax-incentive and other measures as an emergency package to turn around the nosediving stock market and thaw the frozen real estate market, coalition officials said Friday.
BUSINESS
Mar 2, 2001

OSE swallows up Kyoto Stock Exchange

OSAKA -- The Osaka Securities Exchange on Thursday formally absorbed the defunct Kyoto Stock Exchange, which closed the previous day after 117 years in business.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 2001

Deep-sea water targeted for next big health fad

Salt water deep in the sea and beyond the reach of sunlight is attracting the attention of local government officials, fishermen and businesspeople who see seawater products as a promising new business.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 2001

GEOS affiliates fined for hiding 280 million yen

Around 20 companies affiliated with English-language school operator GEOS Corp. failed to declare some 280 million yen in income in the five years to March 2000, industry sources said Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Mar 1, 2001

Truth of scandal remains buried

There is always something very frustrating about Diet questioning of legislators involved in corruption scandals. So it was with Monday's inquiry of Mr. Fukushiro Nukaga, former economics minister, at a Lower House Council on Political Ethics. As expected, Mr. Nukaga, a Liberal Democrat, denied allegations...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 1, 2001

The spy game: high stakes, low payoffs

LONDON -- It's an impressive list: CIA official Aldrich Ames jailed for life in 1994 for spying for Moscow; CIA agent Harold Nicholson jailed for 23 years in 1997 for the same offense; FBI employee Earl Pitts sentenced to 27 years later the same year for passing information to Moscow; U.S. Army Col....
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2001

105 million yen stolen from man's home

Five or six masked men entered the Tokyo home of a major telephone dating club operator and stole around 105 million yen in cash and 30 million yen in jewelry from three safes, police said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2001

Sega bets on silver lining in Dreamcast's demise

Sony Corp. emerged as the victor in the battle of the video game consoles in Japan, but the loser may prove to be the sweetheart among consumers.
BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2001

Sansui continues to struggle with losses

Sansui Electric Co. said Wednesday it posted a group net loss of 1.33 billion yen in the year to December, compared with the previous year's loss of 1.86 billion yen.
BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2001

JVC touts smallest video in world

Victor Co. of Japan said Wednesday that it will launch the lightest and smallest digital video camera in the world in the next couple of weeks.
Japan ruling bloc projected to lose majority in Upper House election drubbing
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks at the Liberal Democratic Party’s headquarters Sunday after exit polls showed poor results for the ruling coalition in the Upper House election.
Polls open for key Upper House election that could shake Japanese politics
People vote during Japan's Upper House election at a polling station in Tokyo on Sunday.
Sunken WWII Japanese warship Teruzuki found off Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands. A team from the U.S. nonprofit Ocean Exploration Trust has discovered the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki on the deep seabed off the Solomon Islands as the 80th anniversary of the war's end approaches.
Japan team finds ancient ocean full of squids
The ancient ocean was full of squids, whose population exceeded that of fish or ammonites, a Japanese research team mainly from Hokkaido University has found through a new method using technology.
Hitomi Obara, 2012 Olympic champion in wrestling, dies at 44
Hitomi Obara competes at the London Olympics in August 2012.
‘Noto Democracy’ and the slow work of civic change
Yukio Iokibe’s “Noto Democracy" centers on Motoyuki Takii, a former junior high school teacher who publishes a handwritten newspaper every month to encourage the residents of Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, to engage in local politics.
In microbes we trust: Embracing the nature of fermented food
You don't need an oven to make Kenji Morimoto's easy and delicious Miso Sticky Toffee Crepe Cake.
Touring the Silk Road — without leaving Tokyo
One of the entrances to Pao Compound, a nine-story Silk Road-inspired complex in Tokyo's Higashinakano neighborhood
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
In Gaza-made obi, Palestinian embroidery meets Japanese kimono
The Palestinian Embroidery Obi Project brings together a traditional Japanese garment and age-old designs from the Middle Eastern region.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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