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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 7, 2008

Japan lagging behind EU in setting de facto global business standards

Japanese firms should recognize and respond to the European Union's growing power as a de facto setter of global business standards, because failure to do so would seriously affect the future of their overseas business, experts told a recent seminar in Tokyo.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Apr 6, 2008

Documentary on education, romantic comedy, female family drama

It is estimated that about 127,000 children throughout Japan have stopped attending school because they simply don't want to. It is a problem that seems to be getting worse despite the attention it has attracted.
Japan Times
JAPAN / MIXED MATCHES
Apr 5, 2008

Home is where the family is for Japanese-German couple

Annette and Ken Uematsu met in 1981 while attending a party for people in Japan learning German. They started dating, moved in together and decided to marry.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 5, 2008

Rising prices fail to derail free 'udon' campaign

Bucking the drastic rise in the price of flour plaguing "udon" noodle shops across the country, one restaurant chain will go ahead with its annual sales campaign offering ¥500 tickets good for a free bowl of noodles every day for a month.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / TAKING A CHANCE
Apr 5, 2008

Leaf-selling business helps small town rake in cash, find pride

Tomoji Yokoishi, 49, recalls how astonished he was 21 years ago by three pretty women sitting next to him in a sushi restaurant in Osaka's Namba district.
BUSINESS
Apr 4, 2008

Kirin confirms interest in Aussie milk processor

Kirin Holdings Co. said Thursday it has its eye on Dairy Farmers after the Australian Financial Review reported it bid $900 million Australian dollars (¥84 billion) for the milk processor.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Apr 4, 2008

Eating, drinking roving, writing

The blossoms have been popping, and ditto the pink champagne. We're not talking about hanami parties in Aoyama Cemetery — they were officially banned this year; nor the exclusive but oh-so-chilly opening party for Sakura Garden, out in the open space behind the Midtown Complex in Roppongi. No, the...
JAPAN
Apr 2, 2008

April 1 proves readers no fools

Barack Obama's half brother, Barracuda Obama, is doing well in Japan and wishes the Illinois senator luck in his quest for the U.S. presidency, the Tokyo Shimbun reported Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Apr 1, 2008

MHI to double turbocharger output

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said it has prepared a ¥40 billion plan, including a new factory in Thailand, to almost double turbocharger production.
BUSINESS
Mar 31, 2008

Group plans to bury Tokyo's elevated 'shuto'

A group of business executives is floating the idea of burying all of Tokyo's elevated highways 60 meters underground. The megaproject also includes a sweeping greening of the space they will leave behind and large-scale redevelopment at key highway ramps.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Mar 30, 2008

Office sitcom, family drama special, superhero adventure

Last year, TBS and publisher Kodansha teamed up to solicit original stories for a television drama. The winning story was adapted as a teleplay and the finished drama will be broadcast Monday at 9 p.m.
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2008

Fair demonstrates just how global 'anime' now is

The Tokyo International Anime Fair is surely going global.
BUSINESS
Mar 29, 2008

Sapporo shareholders vote to keep Steel Partners at bay

By a two-thirds margin, Sapporo Holdings Ltd. shareholders voted Friday to back the brewer in its ongoing struggle to avert a takeover by its largest shareholder, Steel Partners, a U.S.-based activist hedge fund.
BUSINESS
Mar 29, 2008

Markets laud Fukuda offer to untie taxes

Sensing the will for reform, financial markets have responded generally favorably to Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's proposal to free up road-related taxes for other purposes in fiscal 2009, but rural economies already suffering from cuts in public spending risk further damage, analysts say.
BUSINESS
Mar 29, 2008

End cross-shareholding, up dividends: TCI to J-Power

A senior executive of the Children's Investment Fund Management LLP (TCI), a British investment fund and the largest shareholder of Electric Power Development Co., urged the utility Friday to stop cross-shareholding and increase investment in fast-growing emerging economies.

Longform

A sinkhole in Yashio, which emerged in January, was triggered by a ruptured, aging sewer pipe. Authorities worry that similar sections of infrastructure across the country are also at risk of corrosion.
That sinking feeling: Japan’s aging sewers are an infrastructure time bomb