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BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2003

Kyodo News names new manager

Kyodo News on Thursday named Eiji Kadota as general manager overseeing international news, a post that has been vacant since Toyohiko Yamanouchi became president of the agency in December.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2003

The colonel hit hard by downturn

Hit by tighter consumer purse strings, Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan Ltd. announced Thursday that its consolidated net profit dropped 15.2 percent to 1.38 billion yen in the business year that ended in November.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 23, 2003

Landmark ruling in day-care case

The former president of a nationwide chain of day-care centers was sentenced Wednesday to a suspended one-year prison term for professional negligence resulting in the death of a 4-month-old boy.
COMMENTARY
Jan 23, 2003

Restructure job stress levels

LONDON -- Stress seems to be the most common reason for absence from work. Stress at work is not a new phenomenon, but in the past it was often called something else, such as exhaustion. In the worst cases, it led to what was termed a nervous breakdown. Some of the tougher or macho bosses regarded such...
JAPAN
Jan 22, 2003

Gunma firm evaded tax on income from NEC unit

A firm linked to a labor organization that staged street demonstrations in 2000 against then NEC Corp. adviser Tadahiro Sekimoto had received 100 million yen in undeclared money from an NEC affiliate, industry sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jan 22, 2003

Burglars kill homeowner and make off with loot

Four men broke into an elderly couple's home in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, early Tuesday, killed the husband and made off with money and jewels, police said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 22, 2003

Toyota to sell cars that know they are about to have a crash

A new car safety feature from Toyota Motor Corp. doesn't wait for a crash to happen.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 22, 2003

On a personal journey with the koto

While visiting Tokyo recently, saxophonist and composer John Zorn praised Michiyo Yagi, saying, "She's an example of a new kind of musician that can play all different styles of music in her own personal way."
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jan 22, 2003

Can Matsui handle the pressure and avoid the 'cha-cha'?

So far, so good. New York Yankees player Hideki Matsui made it back to Japan, apparently in one piece, after a whirlwind trip to the Big Apple that included evasion of a large Japanese media contingent waiting for him at Newark Liberty Airport, an appearance at Yankee Stadium, the well-attended and media-smothered...
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2003

Toyota to add more hybrid models

Toyota President Fujio Cho said Monday his firm plans to increase its range of hybrid car models to about 10 within five years.
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2003

Yahoo eyes new Web site service

Yahoo Japan Corp., the Japan unit of U.S. Internet portal Yahoo Inc., plans to launch a Web site creation service targeting companies and municipalities, company officials said Monday.
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2003

'02 bankruptcies second most on record

There were 19,458 corporate bankruptcies in 2002, the second-highest figure in the postwar period, Teikoku Databank Ltd. said Monday.
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2003

Ex-security guard collared over ATM cubicle blaze

OSAKA -- Police arrested a former security guard Monday on suspicion that he set fire to an automated teller machine cubicle in central Osaka in June, causing an explosion and seriously injuring himself.
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2003

NEC set to hand reins to president of firm's IT unit

NEC Corp. on Monday named Akinobu Kanasugi, head of the firm's information technology unit, its next president.
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2003

Firms may team up on paint solvent

Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co. and Showa Denko K.K. may team up on the production of the paint solvent ethyl acetate, the firms said Monday.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jan 21, 2003

Leaving Japan, getting organized and cash refunds

Being thankful Hello from Tokyo. For all of our complaints, isn't it wonderful to be in Japan? With war, hunger and strife rampant in the world, Japan, with all its problems, is an oasis. It's a good time to be thankful, as we enter the new year, for the simple blessings of peace, trains that run on...
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2003

Emission-trading trials planned

The Environment Ministry is planning a test trial to trade carbon dioxide emission rights in fiscal 2003, beginning April 1, ministry officials said Sunday.
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2003

Amusement park in Seto Sea going under: railway

OSAKA -- Keihan Electric Railway Co. will close an amusement facility at the end of March that it operates on the island of Yoshima in the Seto Inland Sea, it was learned Sunday.
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2003

Construction of Tokyo's giant windmill completed

The construction of a 70-meter-tall windmill designed to generate power on reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay was completed Friday with the attachment of 26-meter blades, according to Tokyo Metropolitan Government officials.
BUSINESS
Jan 18, 2003

Banks that sell loans to get tax breaks

The government may give tax breaks to banks selling loans to the planned Industrial Revitalization Corp., industrial revival minister Sadakazu Tanigaki said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jan 18, 2003

Rachel Walzer

The play now in rehearsal for a Tokyo presentation "reflects in its crudeness the state of our world today," Rachel Walzer said. Preparing for her role in "What the Butler Saw," she has "strong opinions about this farce. In it, nothing is sacred, and it seems to offend everyone under the sun. Yet beneath...
BUSINESS
Jan 17, 2003

Isuzu cuts back sales target 20%

Truck and bus maker Isuzu Motors Ltd. unveiled a new 2003 worldwide sales target Thursday of 186,000 units, down 20 percent from the previous year.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 17, 2003

Nissan rolls out fully redesigned Skyline Coupe in Japan

Nissan Motor Co. on Thursday released the fully redesigned Skyline Coupe in Japan in the hope the new version of the popular model further accelerates the carmaker's performance.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2003

Photo tour shows Kobe before the quake

KOBE -- Pointing to photos posted along a quiet street in the Mikura district of Kobe's Nagata Ward, the head of a local community council explained how the area was once a shopping arcade.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jan 15, 2003

On with the old and in with the new

The kabuki year has kicked off with three striking programs at the Kokaido (Public Hall) in Asakusa, the Kabukiza in Ginza and the Tokyo National Theater in Hanzomon.
JAPAN
Jan 14, 2003

Electronics trio eyes grid-computing project

NEC Corp., Fujitsu Ltd. and Hitachi Ltd. are considering joint development of software for grid computing, the integration of many computers to enable ultrahigh-speed data processing, company sources told Kyodo News on Monday.
JAPAN
Jan 14, 2003

23% of young want to be office workers

The prolonged recession is apparently motivating young adults to pursue job stability, with the largest group in a recent online poll saying that "office worker" would be their ideal job.

Longform

Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan