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JAPAN
Dec 8, 2005

Soken pushed Aneha-linked designer on hoteliers

, based in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, reportedly advised owners of business hotel chains to use Heisei Sekkei to reduce construction costs. Four such chains in Aichi Prefecture received similar tips from the consulting firm. Officials from Kubota Construction, based in Komagane, Nagano Prefecture, said Soken...
BUSINESS
Dec 7, 2005

Toshiba in pact for new logic chips

Toshiba Corp. said Tuesday it has agreed to develop 65-nanometer field programmable gate arrays, a type of logic chip that supports thousands of gates, with Xilinx Inc. of the United States.
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2005

Matsushita apologizes for deadly heaters, offers partial refund

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. pledged Tuesday to prevent a recurrence of carbon monoxide poisoning caused by its defective kerosene heaters, which have claimed two lives and sickened eight others this year.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Dec 7, 2005

Creative destruction augurs well for woodland well-being

Coming into Tokyo earlier this year, a mountain lad like me might have thought the city was hosting a great convention of bank robbers. It seemed that half the population were masked and looking grim indeed. The problem, it seemed, was an allergy to the pollen from sugi (cryptomeria, or Japanese cedar)....
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 6, 2005

Criminal case against Aneha gets firmed up

The infrastructure ministry filed criminal complaints with police Monday against architect Hidetsugu Aneha for falsifying quake-proofing data used in structural plans for several condominium complexes and hotels in violation of the Building Standard Law, ministry officials said.
JAPAN
Dec 6, 2005

Rakuten-TBS panel to start tieup talks this weekend

Rakuten Inc. and Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. will launch a committee this weekend to consider tieups for combining broadcasting and Internet services, the first negotiations since Rakuten withdrew its management integration proposal last week, sources said Monday.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Dec 5, 2005

Privatization hurdles: Japan Post should compete with banks on level playing field

The government bills drafted to privatize the state-run postal services were finally enacted into laws in mid-October, but there will be two major challenges ahead as privatization is carried out.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Dec 3, 2005

Beautiful Losers to play at Amnesty rights benefit

Everyone who knows them agrees they are beautiful people. We also agree that Brett Boyd and Raj Ramayya deserve the recognition they are achieving. All this makes their name, as musicians, an interesting irony: The Beautiful Losers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 2, 2005

Engineers, pop singers feted at Innovator Awards

Painless syringes, therapeutic planetariums, cards embedded with IC chips that allow cashless payments, and a singing duo who inspired a U.S. cartoon were among the products and people winning honors Wednesday for innovation.
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2005

Condo repairs to cost at least 14 billion yen

The cost of repairing hotels, condominium complexes and other structures built with false quake-resistance data has so far been tallied at over 14 billion yen, the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry said Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2005

Rakuten and TBS bury hatchet, agree to start tieup talks

After intense 11th-hour negotiations, Rakuten Inc. and Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. agreed Wednesday to launch talks on potential business tieups after the Internet firm withdrew its proposal to merge with the private broadcaster.
BUSINESS
Dec 1, 2005

Seibu to shut anemic Shizuoka, Toyama outlets by end of '06

Seibu Department Stores Ltd. plans to close its outlets in the cities of Toyama and Shizuoka by the end of 2006, it was learned Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2005

Lawmakers check Aneha-tainted building

Lawmakers visited the building site Tuesday morning of a condominium complex that was designed using quake-resistance data fabricated by Chiba-based architect Hidetsugu Aneha as part of their investigation into the shoddy construction fraud.
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2005

Charity swim event to aid Thai tsunami orphans

Two foreign athletes who survived the South Asian tsunamis last year will hold a charity swimming event in Thailand on Dec. 24 to raise funds for Thai children who lost parents in the disaster.
BUSINESS
Nov 30, 2005

NEC, Philips form joint venture

NEC Corp. announced Tuesday it has reached a basic agreement with Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands to set up a joint venture to provide office networking services in the European market.
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2005

TBS ready to talk with Rakuten on program distribution

Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. has decided to negotiate with major Internet shopping mall operator Rakuten Inc. on a business tieup in the form of online distribution of programs via Rakuten's portal site, sources said Sunday.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 27, 2005

Yoko just can't keep her hands off her John

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the death of John Lennon, who was murdered in front of his apartment building in New York City on Dec. 8, 1980. In Japan, owing to the time difference, the anniversary is Dec. 9, a day after the anniversary of that other day that will live in infamy. Recently,...
JAPAN
Nov 26, 2005

Individual investors being hit by suspicious stock schemes

Individual investors looking for places to invest their money are getting dragged into shady schemes that persuade them to buy unlisted stocks with the promise of getting high returns once they get listed.
BUSINESS
Nov 26, 2005

Fujitsu heads' pay cut for TSE glitch

Fujitsu Ltd. said Friday it will cut the salary of President Hiroaki Kurokawa and six other executives as a penalty for a series of computer system malfunctions at the Tokyo Stock Exchange and other Japanese bourses earlier this month.
BUSINESS
Nov 26, 2005

FSA issues improvement orders to 26 nonlife insurers

The Financial Services Agency ordered 26 nonlife insurers Friday to make improvements after failing to honor more than 8 billion yen in legitimate insurance claims in a scandal that has deepened worries about the faltering industry.
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2005

Government inspects eHomes over Aneha's faulty designs

enters the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry building in Tokyo for a hearing on falsified building data.
BUSINESS
Nov 25, 2005

Tepco founds Bahama tanker unit

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday it has founded a new firm in the Bahamas to own a tanker for transporting liquefied natural gas to Japan under the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas development project off the Russian island of Sakhalin.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 25, 2005

Economic challenges and opportunities lie ahead for Japan

The rapid aging of the Japanese population is both a challenge and an opportunity as it will force the nation to confront structural problems with its economy and make tough choices, visiting French journalists said at a recent symposium in Tokyo.
The Toyota buyout is a major test for Japan’s reforms
Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor, speaks during a media preview at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Oct. 29. Minority investors are challenging the carmaker's bid to take affiliate Toyota Industries Corp. private.
New satellite images suggest 'mass graves' in Sudan's El-Fasher
A general view of a berm construction in Kinin Village near El-Fasher.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.
Takaichi calls for the updating of Japan's economic security law
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to a panel on promoting economic security in Japan on Friday.
These are the hottest lower-division rikishi to watch right now
Fukazaki (right) grapples with Enho at the IG Arena in Nagoya on July 13.
Across borders and screens, Tokyo film festival finds humanity in migration
“Mother Bhumi” takes place in a multiethnic rice-farming community where Chinese, Thai and Malay lineages intertwine.
Takaichi’s balancing act: Supporting Taiwan and stabilizing China ties
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with Lin Hsin-i, Taiwan’s presidential adviser, on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday in this image posted to Takaichi's official X account.
From 1973 to 2025: A Japanese American skater’s long ride to recognition
Judi Oyama at Winchester Skatepark in San Jose, California, in January 1979. The Skateboarding Hall of Fame inductee and Guinness World Record holder still skates and hopes to inspire older women.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
By Alex K.T. Martin

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