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BUSINESS
Aug 15, 2001

IT specialists available by hour

LINC Media Inc., a Tokyo-based firm that provides information technology-related services, has launched a new service to dispatch bilingual engineers on hourly contracts, company officials said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 15, 2001

Three air con makers maintain higher output

OSAKA -- Three leading manufacturers of home-use air conditioners are continuing higher rates of production this month, which usually sees slow output in response to falling demand, industry officials said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 14, 2001

Mycal to sell Hokkaido unit's stock in debt-slashing move

OSAKA -- Ailing supermarket chain Mycal Corp. said Monday that it will sell 6.45 million shares in subsidiary Mycal Hokkaido Corp. to help slash its debt.
BUSINESS
Aug 14, 2001

Jusco to dissolve furniture venture

Jusco Co., the nation's third-largest supermarket chain operator, said Monday it will dissolve its furniture retailing joint venture with RTG International Inc. of the United States by February 2003 due to poor performance.
LIFE / Travel
Aug 14, 2001

Probing the borderline between life and death

The Shimokita Peninsula is a broad thumb of land at Honshu's northern tip, curling around Mutsu Bay and up toward Hokkaido. It is a wild place. Here you can find feral horses, the world's northernmost wild monkeys, some of Japan's last remaining wilderness -- and a holy mountain, Osorezan.
JAPAN
Aug 14, 2001

52.5% of firms have shed workers since '98

The labor ministry said 52.5 percent of companies it surveyed in September carried out layoffs and other employment-related adjustments between September 1998 and August 2000.
JAPAN
Aug 14, 2001

Reactions vary to Yasukuni Shrine visit

Opinions were divided among the thousands of people gathered at Yasukuni Shrine on Monday over Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's controversial visit the same day.
EDITORIALS
Aug 12, 2001

The lure of Amelia Earhart

Life abounds with mysteries, both profound and trivial, and if we were to spend all our time pondering them we would never get any work done. Yet some tug more forcefully at our imaginations than others -- and of these, the mysteries surrounding disappearances are the most forceful of all. Nature abhors...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 12, 2001

Going the distance and beyond

OSAKA -- When the late Abebe Bikila represented Ethiopia in the men's marathon at the 1960 Rome Olympics, he shrugged off shoes in favor of his own bare feet. He took the gold, but were he running today, he might not make the same choice.
JAPAN
Aug 12, 2001

Kansai / Who & What

Art space combines dance, dinner, bonfire A dinner party with dancing, music and a bonfire will be held Wednesday and Thursday at the KyoRyuKan International Art Space in Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto.
COMMENTARY
Aug 11, 2001

Musharraf bravado won't stop the killing

ISLAMABAD -- In most parts of the world, a president's offer to grab a gun and go after the killers of a prominent businessman would raise eyebrows, to say the least. But in Pakistan, awash with illegal weapons, the bold words of President Pervez Musharraf did not surprise many people.
COMMENTARY
Aug 10, 2001

Noblesse oblige in short supply

The immediate task for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is to wrap up a specific reform package. While his slogans — "Structural reform with no sacred cows" and "No economic recovery without structural reform" — are basically supported here and abroad, stock prices have continued to fall.
JAPAN
Aug 10, 2001

JAL systems snafu snarls services

Japan Airlines said Thursday its host computer for passenger services broke down, stalling almost all international flights in the morning out of Narita airport in Chiba Prefecture.
BUSINESS
Aug 9, 2001

With election over, focus turns to reforms

The Tokyo stock market has reacted little to the ruling coalition's victory in last month's Upper House election, as the outcome was well within expectations.
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2001

MSDF unit sent to Ehime Maru site

Defense Agency chief Gen Nakatani on Wednesday ordered the dispatch of about 130 Maritime Self-Defense Force members to Hawaii to assist the U.S. Navy in salvaging the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru.
BUSINESS
Aug 9, 2001

Jusco to open more stores in 2002

OSAKA -- Supermarket chain operator Jusco Co. plans to open more than 10 new stores in the 2002 business year, company sources said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 8, 2001

MHI, GE in talks on diesel engines

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. is in negotiations with General Electric Co. to supply its U.S. rival with diesel engines used to generate electric power, company sources said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 8, 2001

TDK group net profit down 90.6%

TDK Corp. said Tuesday its group net profit for the April-June quarter fell 90.6 percent from the same period a year earlier to 1.21 billion yen.
BUSINESS
Aug 8, 2001

Nomura, Nippon Life tie on pensions

Nomura Securities Co. said Tuesday it has agreed with Nippon Life Insurance Co. to develop variable pension plans to be launched in October.
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2001

Foreign Ministry sacks two more officials

The Foreign Ministry dismissed two ministry officials on Monday, following their indictment earlier in the day on charges they mishandled about 22 million yen in public funds, the ministry said.
Events
Aug 7, 2001

Toxic island may be turned into foreign enclave

OSAKA -- What do you do with an island far from the center of town on which no one wants to live because methane gas leaks from landfill boasting high dioxin levels?
BUSINESS
Aug 7, 2001

Fast Retailing to enter China market

Fast Retailing Co., operator of the popular Uniqlo-brand casual wear retail shops, said Monday it will establish a subsidiary in Kumshan in the Chinese coastal province of Jiangsu on Wednesday.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Aug 7, 2001

Rubbing noses with a musk ox

The Northwest Territories cover approximately one-third of Canada. Given that Canada is the second-largest country in the world, it can therefore be said without fear of contradiction that the NWT is rather large.
BUSINESS
Aug 6, 2001

Wine exporters focus on Asia

BORDEAUX, France -- Japan is firmly back on the agenda for many wine exporters despite its continued economic slump, and value for money at the lower end should improve further. However, futures prices already indicate the prestige 2000 Bordeaux vintages won't be cheap.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2001

Aging craftsman proves human eye has edge over machines

UTSUNOMIYA, Tochigi Pref. -- The delicate hands and intuitive judgment of Yoshimasa Katori enable him do what no precision machine has ever accomplished -- polish glass into perfectly curved lenses.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2001

Seoul fashion moves into Osaka

OSAKA -- A total of 126 vendors from the Tongdaemun apparel market in Seoul, said to be Asia's largest fashion mart, started operations Saturday at the Asia and Pacific Trade Center (ATC) in Osaka's Suminoe Ward.
LIFE / Food & Drink / BEST BAR NONE
Aug 5, 2001

Passion burning on the dance floor

Lamont Raymond is better known simply as Monty to thousands of Japanese clubbers. After arriving in Tokyo on an English-teaching gig more than a decade ago, he ended up working as the sales manager for Tokyo Classified (the free paper now known as Metropolis). For many years, if you had picked up a copy,...
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2001

Moody's upgrades Isetan's outlook

Moody's Investors Service Inc. said Friday it has upgraded its senior unsecured rating on Isetan Co., a Tokyo-based department store chain, from Ba2 to Ba1, with the rating outlook being positive.
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2001

Food firms facing polarized market

The nation's food companies are facing increasingly polarized consumption trends, and any firm that fails to meet the needs of such a market faces future downgrading, Moody's Investors Service Inc. said Friday.
Wealthy foreign nationals picking up ultimate souvenir — a condo in Tokyo
A high-end property in the fashionable Daikanyama district in Tokyo
Japan dispatches five language education 'partners' to India
Five members of the Japan Foundation's Nihongo Partners program (front) gather at the Japanese Embassy in New Delhi on Monday.
End of U.S. de minimis exemption causes headaches for some businesses in Japan
Proxy-shopping services — companies that ship Japanese products ranging from cosmetics and snacks to limited-edition stationery on behalf of customers abroad — are already feeling the impact of the U.S. suspending de minimis exemptions.
Over 90% of low-income families in Japan struggling to feed children
Save the Children Japan domestic program chief Sonoko Kawakami speaks at a news conference in Tokyo in July. A survey conducted by the group in June has found that over 90% of low-income households with children face food insecurity.
Struggling train firm in Chiba Prefecture turns to self-deprecating humor
"Laughter is important when you're in a difficult situation," said Katsunori Takemoto, president of Choshi Electric Railway, on Aug. 5 in Choshi, Chiba Prefecture.
Japan’s front-line researchers see bright path ahead for dementia treatment
A scientist looks at scans of grains at the Memory Centre at the Department of Readaptation and Geriatrics of the University Hospital (HUG) in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 6, 2023.
Still plenty to fight for, says Japan’s team leader at worlds
Race walker Hayato Katsuki earned bronze for Japan on the opening day of the World Athletics Championships on Saturday.
Wealthy foreign nationals picking up ultimate souvenir — a condo in Tokyo
A high-end property in the fashionable Daikanyama district in Tokyo
Japanese athletes inspired by raucous home fans at World Athletics Championships
Fans cheer on the home favorites during the women's marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Sunday.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.

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