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BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2008

Square Enix looks to acquire firms

Square Enix Co., Japan's second-largest game software publisher, plans to acquire companies domestically or in countries including India and China to accelerate profit growth.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 1, 2008

Suharto puzzle still in play

HONG KONG — In death, Indonesia's former President Suharto was praised as a great and almost saintly ruler. At Suharto's state funeral Monday, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono saluted the casket, one general to another, and declared "His service is an example to us."
BUSINESS
Feb 1, 2008

Tainted 'gyoza' fiasco to hit industry, food prices

The widespread poisonings reported Wednesday involving pesticide-tainted frozen "gyoza" dumplings made in China will probably hit Japan's frozen food producers and importers hard, as sales predictably fall and costs to ensure food safety rise in the coming months.
BUSINESS
Jan 31, 2008

Honda posts record ¥200 billion profit for quarter

Honda Motor Co. said Wednesday that its group net profit for the third quarter of business 2007 jumped 38.1 percent from a year earlier to a record high ¥200 billion, backed by brisk sales in overseas markets.
JAPAN
Jan 31, 2008

10 sick after eating tainted 'gyoza' from China

A least 10 people in Hyogo and Chiba Prefectures have suffered food poisoning after consuming frozen "gyoza" meat and vegetable dumplings from China that contained pesticide, corporate and government officials said Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ALSO OUT THERE
Jan 30, 2008

Finessing the pen-twirl becomes a fine science

Unlike Tamagotchi or the Nintendo DS, the latest Japanese gadget does not bleep, comes without voice recognition system and will not connect to the Internet.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jan 29, 2008

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BUSINESS
Jan 29, 2008

Daiichi Sankyo antibiotic OK'd

Drugmaker Daiichi Sankyo Co. won approval to sell the antibiotic Gracevit in its home market.
EDITORIALS
Jan 27, 2008

The 'keitai' generation

Nearly 100 percent of high school students, 50 percent of junior high, and a third of those in grammar school now own cell phones. Even the word "cell phone" already sounds out of date, replaced even among foreign residents by "keitai," the shortened form of the Japanese word for portable phone.
Japan Times
JAPAN / MIXED MATCHES
Jan 26, 2008

Pair mutually strive to broaden their horizon, perspective

Alexander Bright and Akiko Yamada first met at Cambridge University in 1999, when Bright was a graduate student majoring in materials science and Yamada, then a high school teacher, was taking a year off to study education in England.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 25, 2008

Classic director remembered

The Japan Foundation will present the film series "Rediscovery of Yamamoto Satsuo" on Feb. 2-3 as it continues to promote cultural and arts exchange with non-Japanese. A selection of the most popular works by the celebrated director Yamamoto will be shown in Tokyo with English subtitles.
BUSINESS
Jan 25, 2008

Toyota falls just short of passing GM's 2007 sales

Toyota said Thursday it sold 9.366 million vehicles last year globally, about 3,000 fewer than General Motors' tally, allowing the U.S. automaker to retain its crown as the world's No. 1 automaker.
Reader Mail
Jan 24, 2008

Drinking sessions add to problem

The Jan. 11 editorial "Confidence to have children" rightfully pointed out that long work hours prevent men from assisting in child care. However, I might point out that company drinking sessions add even more time to the typical salaryman's day than does overtime. These drinking sessions, which are...
EDITORIALS
Jan 24, 2008

Profiting on a scrap of information

The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission has launched an investigation of three NHK employees — two reporters and a director — on suspicion of insider stock trading. They are suspected of garnering ¥100,000 to ¥400,000 in profits after trading 1,000 to 3,000 shares on "insider" knowledge....

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