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BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2003

Sega downplays Microsoft's pursuit

Sega Corp. on Monday dismissed a report that Microsoft Corp. and Electronic Arts Inc. may try to acquire the Japanese video game software developer.
BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2003

Nissan hopes to boost dealer profits with tailor-made insurance policies

Nissan Motor Co. has taken the unusual step of agreeing to have its affiliated car dealers sell auto insurance provided exclusively by Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. and Millea Holdings Inc., according to company sources.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2003

Spring wage talks going the way of the dinosaur?

The curtain has fallen on the "shunto" wage hike negotiations that unions have conducted every spring for almost half a century amid the nation's deflationary downturn and fierce international competition.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2003

Postal agency lifts lid on account scam

The Postal Services Agency has discovered about 49,000 illegal accounts for its postal insurance policy that provides tax-free capital gains if the money is applied to the purchase of a home or for use as a pension, agency sources said Monday.
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2003

Safety measures for drug got sidetracked

A pharmaceutical firm's tardiness in taking safety precautions with a drug linked to more than 120 deaths may have been due to concerns that such moves could have hampered the drug's approval overseas, it was learned Sunday.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 2003

SMFG bids for stake in Aozora

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. has offered a specific price to Softbank Corp. to acquire its 48.8 percent equity stake in Aozora Bank, sources familiar with the deal said Saturday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / FUZZY LOGIC
Mar 2, 2003

Whatever you do, don't call them . . .

It's not every day that someone threatens to kill you. My mistake is to suggest to Asian Dub Foundation bassist Dr. Das that the new album, "Enemy of the Enemy," suggests ADF are moving in a more chilled-out eclectic direction.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / CLOSE-UP
Mar 2, 2003

Weighing in on the 'real Japan'

Murray Sayle, 76, likes to tell how he was delivered by the same doctor as Australian Prime Minister John Howard; how he lived a few streets away from him and went to the same high school, and then the same university.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 2, 2003

The Great North

"It is Japan, but yet there is a difference somehow.'' -- Isabella Bird, 1878
BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2003

Nomura eyes management reshuffle

Kyodo News
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2003

Railway firm admits lying about sleepy train driver

The bullet train driver who fell asleep at the controls earlier this week continued to operate the train without supervision for more than 20 minutes after leaving Okayama Station, where he was shaken from his slumber, transport ministry officials revealed Friday.
BUSINESS
Feb 28, 2003

Kinki Nippon lays profits to cost cutting

Kinki Nippon Tourist Co. said Thursday its group net profit grew 4.8 percent to 2.45 billion yen last year thanks to cost cuts and a rebound in overseas travel.
JAPAN
Feb 28, 2003

11 people found in ship container

Eleven people were found in a shipping container offloaded at Tokyo port Thursday and were taken into custody on suspicion of entering the country illegally, police said.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 2003

Quake drill held on Tokyo subway system

A Tokyo subway company and the Tokyo Fire Department conducted a special earthquake and fire drill Wednesday, following last week's fatal subway torching in South Korea.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 27, 2003

228.9 billion yen debt sinks Dutch-style theme park

Huis Ten Bosch Co., operator of a 17th century Dutch theme park in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, collapsed under 228.9 billion yen in debt Wednesday after Mizuho Holdings Inc. cut off funding in a race to resolve problem loans.
BUSINESS
Feb 27, 2003

Skylark posts 1.16 billion yen net loss

Skylark Co. said Wednesday it posted a group net loss of 1.16 billion yen in the business year to Dec. 31. The chain of family restaurants attributed the deterioration, which marks a reversal from a profit of 5.85 billion yen in the previous year, to an extraordinary loss of 31.73 billion yen, mainly...
BUSINESS
Feb 26, 2003

Gates courts LDP leadership over 'e-Japan' deal

In an unprecedented attempt to encourage the Japanese government to adopt Windows for a planned electronic government project, Microsoft Corp. founder and Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday that he will reveal Microsoft's most tightly guarded secret -- the operating system's source code.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 25, 2003

Businesses gear up to launch IP phone services

Roused into action by Softbank Corp.'s foray into Internet Protocol telephony last April, major telecommunications carriers and Internet service providers soon plan to launch their own commercial end-to-end IP phone services via broadband lines.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 24, 2003

NEC downs Suntory to capture C'ship

The T-shirts worn by the NEC players at the end of the 40th All-Japan Championship summed it up - "NEC Miracle 7." Having finished seventh in the Kanto League and being forced into a playoff to reach the national stages of the Company Championship, NEC finished the season as champion of Japan following...
COMMENTARY
Feb 24, 2003

Reform of the fourth estate

I was stunned by recent media reports that Takuhiko Tsuruta, president of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper, had become a whistle-blowing target. At a company shareholders meeting, a proposal demanding Tsuruta's dismissal from the board was presented by an editor and shareholder of the newspaper. Tsuruta...
MORE SPORTS
Feb 23, 2003

Takahashi gets OK to resume training

Olympic champion Naoko Takahashi's hopes of competing in the Tokyo International Women's Marathon in November were given a boost Friday when she was given the green light to resume training.
JAPAN
Feb 23, 2003

Victims' families sue over Kabukicho fire deaths in 2001

Relatives of 25 of the 44 people who died in a 2001 fire in Tokyo's Kabukicho entertainment district filed a 1.25 billion yen compensation lawsuit Friday with the Tokyo District Court against six people and the company that manages the building.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Feb 23, 2003

Making home your own

That wall must go. The same thought nagged Mariko Maruoka every evening while she cooked dinner for her family. The dividing wall that ran between kitchen and dining area served no useful purpose.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 22, 2003

Ex-pros allowed to join company clubs

The Japan Amateur Baseball Association will amend its articles of association to allow former pro baseball players, managers and coaches to join corporate baseball teams on a legitimate basis, officials said Friday.
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2003

Publisher Kodansha slips into red

Kodansha Ltd. fell into the red for the first time since World War II in the year through Nov. 30, due to weakening magazine sales, a company spokesman said Friday.
COMMENTARY
Feb 22, 2003

Best policy Seoul can buy?

HONOLULU -- The unmaking of a hero is never pretty, but the fall of South Korean President Kim Dae Jung has been especially ugly. The statesman leaves behind a shredded legacy and he, like many of his predecessors, is but one step ahead of the prosecutor. Even his Nobel Peace Price has been tarnished:...
Tsunami threat passes following magnitude 6.9 quake off Iwate
A tsunami advisory was issued for Iwate Prefecture on Sunday evening following a strong earthquake. The advisory was later called off, after waves measuring 20 centimeters were recorded in some areas.
Japan to subsidize demolition of abandoned inns
Abandoned Japanese-style inns in the Kinugawa hot springs resort in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, in March 2023
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Takaichi stands firm on controversial Taiwan contingency remarks
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a session of the House of Representatives' Budget Committee in parliament in Tokyo on Monday.
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.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.
Jenson Button brings end to an illustrious racing career intertwined with Japan
Jenson Button races for Honda during the Singapore Grand Prix in September 2008.
Cleanliness gets competitive at Tokyo’s Spogomi world cup
On Oct. 29, teams from 33 qualifying countries scoured the streets of Shibuya for all manners of trash as part of the Spogomi litter-picking competition.
Jon Homewood: ‘There’s beauty in what we throw away’
After a peripatetic childhood around the world, teacher and artist Jon Homewood ended up coming to Japan in 2012 for a professional opportunity.
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.

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Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
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