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BUSINESS
Feb 4, 2012

Suppliers cut jobs amid yen battering

Japan Inc. is suffering and the supply chain is bearing the cost.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2012

Like Stringer, Hirai's priority: Revive Sony TVs

Incoming Sony Corp. Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai's biggest challenge will be to solve a puzzle that bedeviled Howard Stringer for eight years: how to make money selling televisions.
BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2012

Makers cut forecasts on yen surge, Thai floods

Japanese makers of cars, chips and computers said profit would be less than previously expected this year as the stronger yen undermines a recovery from output setbacks caused by March 11.
BUSINESS
Jan 31, 2012

Olympus would be perfect partner in medical device field: Fujifilm

Fujifilm Holdings Corp. proposed a partnership Monday with Olympus Corp., the camera and endoscope maker that lost more than half of its market value last year amid an accounting scandal.
BUSINESS
Jan 25, 2012

Daiei on track for first dividend in 16 years after adding new stores

Daiei Inc., which hasn't posted a profit since 2008, is targeting its first dividend payment in 16 years after it completes a doubling in capital spending to add more stores.
BUSINESS
Jan 19, 2012

Regulators may lower competitive barriers for alternative stock markets

Japanese regulators may consider rule changes to make it easier for alternative stock markets to compete with a merged Tokyo Stock Exchange Group Inc. and Osaka Securities Exchange Co.
BUSINESS
Jan 14, 2012

MUFJ targeting acquisitions, retail to enter top three in Asian banking, deputy chief says

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., the nation's biggest bank, is shooting to become one of Asia's three biggest lenders by profit through acquisitions, funding infrastructure projects and expanding retail banking.
BUSINESS
Jan 14, 2012

Builders tap postdisaster rush for quake-resistant homes

Ken Saishoji, a Tokyo real-estate agent, used to answer questions from potential apartment buyers about the proximity to train stations and prices, but that changed after the March disasters.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 12, 2012

Execs' exit 'turning point' for Nomura

The resignation of two former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. executives from Nomura Holdings Inc. may allow the nation's biggest brokerage to revamp a business that has stumbled since it bought assets of the failed U.S. firm in 2008.
BUSINESS
Jan 6, 2012

JAL readying ¥1 trillion IPO in September

Japan Airlines Co., the carrier that exited bankruptcy last year, is planning an initial public offering that may raise as much as ¥1 trillion as early as September, two sources said.
BUSINESS
Dec 31, 2011

SMFG eyes EU bank assets

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., the nation's second-biggest bank by market value, plans to buy "several hundred billion yen" of assets being sold by European lenders building capital to weather the region's debt crisis.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 30, 2011

Mizuho may acquire Asian bank for equity biz

Mizuho Financial Group Inc. is considering buying an investment bank in Asia to help improve slow growth in winning equity and debt offerings in the region.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2011

Yahoo may pare Alibaba stake to 15%, exit Japan

Yahoo Inc. is considering cutting its 40 percent stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to about 15 percent in a deal that would also see it sell off its Yahoo Japan Corp. stake, two sources briefed on the matter said.
BUSINESS
Dec 22, 2011

Tokio Marine to buy Delphi Financial

Tokio Marine Holdings Inc., the nation's second-largest casualty insurer, on Wednesday agreed to buy Delphi Financial Group Inc. for $2.7 billion in its second U.S. acquisition in three years.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 13, 2011

TSE, OSE woo foreign investors

Japan's top two stock exchanges are starting campaigns to lure overseas investors after agreeing last month to merge amid falling trading volumes.
CULTURE / Books
Dec 4, 2011

Global challenge of the big sell

THE DENTSU WAY, by Kotaro Sugiyama and Tim Andree. McGraw Hill, 2011, 310 pp., $28 (hardcover) Founded in 1901, Dentsu Inc.'s success in becoming Japan's top advertising agency, and the world's fifth-largest, reflects the nation's development from a sheltered, rural-based economy to an international...
Reader Mail
Dec 1, 2011

Olympus scandal is no surprise

I recently read an editorial in The Japan Times contemplating the damage that the Olympus scandal could have not only on the company itself but on the reputation of Japan Inc.
BUSINESS
Nov 22, 2011

DoCoMo to spend on networks

NTT DoCoMo Inc., the nation's biggest mobile-phone carrier by subscribers, aims to keep boosting operating profit by curbing overall spending as two smaller rivals add more customers by offering Apple Inc.'s iPhone.
BUSINESS
Nov 19, 2011

Resona to up female chiefs

Resona Holdings Inc. aims to help narrow the country's gender gap by adding female managers and appointing a woman as an executive for the first time.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 17, 2011

Thai floods may divert Japanese investment

Japanese companies, Thailand's biggest foreign investors, may spend more to build factories in neighboring Indonesia and Vietnam after the worst flooding in 70 years disrupted global production.
BUSINESS
Nov 15, 2011

Singapore sold stock at scandal's outset

Government of Singapore Investment Corp. (GIC), manager of more than $100 billion of the city's reserves, sold almost all of its 2 percent stake in Olympus Corp., the camera maker that said it hid losses with inflated fees.
Man held after two injured in Tokyo Metro knife attack
Police outside Todaimae Station on the Namboku Line on Wednesday evening after a knife attack at the station 　
U.S. and Japan remain far apart on tariffs
Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister Ryosei Akazawa speaks to the press upon his arrival at Haneda Airport on April 18. He has said that all tariffs need to be reconsidered by the United States.
Japan's 'ice age' employment generation is at risk of poverty during retirement
Those who entered the job market from around 1993 to 2004, when long-term stagnation started, are likely to struggle even more to make ends meet after retirement.
India strikes Pakistan over Kashmir tourist killings
Indian paramilitary personnel stand guard along a road in Srinagar on Wednesday after New Delhi launched missile strikes on archrival Pakistan in a major escalation between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
Japan’s tycoon families seek buyouts to evade investor pressure
Akio Toyoda’s $42 billion plan to buy Toyota Industries is one of the examples in a recent wave of management buyout ambitions in Japan.
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025 expands to become one of Asia's largest startup events
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025 was bustling with participants of various nationalities Thursday, and multiple languages could be heard around the room as many engaged in conversations throughout the day.
Celebrating Japan’s defeat at Shimoda’s Black Ships Festival
Tatsumi Onose (right), who plays the part of Commodore Matthew Perry in Shimoda's Black Ship Festival, says the historical episode the event is based on should be remembered for its positives more than its negatives.
'Big picture thinker': Ispace CEO Hakamada on reaching the moon and dreaming of starships
Takeshi Hakamada, founder and CEO of Ispace, says his primary interest in space development is not to abandon Earth, but to protect it.
The drive for luxury: Aston Martin Asia's president explains the desire for more
While for Aston Martin, it’s all about delivering luxury, their regional president for Asia Gregory Adams' start in the auto industry in Japan was far more humble.
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.

Podcast

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

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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
By Hanako Lowry

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