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BUSINESS
Aug 11, 2011

Yamaguchi looks to double yuan loans in China

Yamaguchi Financial Group Inc., the only regional bank Ok'd to lend yuan in mainland China, aims to double loans in the currency as falls in interest rates and borrowing erode profitability at home.
BUSINESS
Aug 2, 2011

Mitsubishi Estate to upsize fund, target pensions

Mitsubishi Estate Co., the nation's largest developer by market value, plans to expand a property fund that targets pension investors to help boost its asset-management business.
BUSINESS
Jul 20, 2011

Morgan Stanley likely to name MUFG's Tamakoshi to board

Morgan Stanley is likely to appoint Ryosuke Tamakoshi to its board as the second representative from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., according to a person briefed on the discussions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 14, 2011

Sanrio to cut reliance on Hello Kitty

Sanrio Co. aims to spend as much as ¥30 billion to buy the rights to a character for the first time and cut its reliance on Hello Kitty.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / TECH_JAPAN
Jul 13, 2011

Toys for all ages at Tokyo show

The 2011 International Tokyo Toy Show was held last month at Tokyo Big Sight, and Japanese toy-makers were in attendance to show their wondrous wares to potential buyers, not to mention a veritable army of kids. This year saw everything from figures to remote-control vehicles, robots to iPhone games....
BUSINESS
Jul 13, 2011

Elpida eyes ¥79.7 billion via share, bond sales

Elpida Memory Inc. plans to raise ¥79.7 billion selling shares and convertible bonds.
BUSINESS
Jul 12, 2011

Basel to spur lending rethink: MUFG's Hirano

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., Japan's biggest publicly traded bank, may focus more on transactional banking and asset management as new capital rules make lending businesses less attractive, Deputy President Nobuyuki Hirano said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 12, 2011

Lender urges quick passage of Tepco bill

The Diet must pass a nuclear compensation bill within two months before banks including Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. offer new loans to the owner of the radiation-spewing Fukushima No. 1 atomic plant, the nation's banking lobby said.
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2011

Bread prices to hit purchasing power

Bread prices are set to climb for the first time in three years, eroding consumer purchasing power and potentially slowing the emergence of the economy from recession.
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2011

Saudi women, barred from driving, urge Subaru to go

A group campaigning for an end to Saudi Arabia's ban on driving by women called on Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.'s Subaru cars unit to pull out of the kingdom until the prohibition is lifted.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 23, 2011

Fukushima crisis opens door for foreign companies

The video screen at the Marunouchi subway entrance in Tokyo Station asks passersby to "Please Help Us Save Energy," a plea repeated throughout the nation in television advertisements warning of summer power shortages.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 21, 2011

Nintendo may fail with new Wii U

Takaki Kawatsu, a 33-year-old real estate agent, says he'll be among Nintendo Co. customers who will pass on the company's next Wii game console.
BUSINESS
Jun 17, 2011

Shareholders get down to Cool Biz

The Super Cool Biz campaign to ease dress codes and cope with less air conditioning amid an anticipated summer power shortage is extending to shareholder meetings this month.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 17, 2011

Quake-proof building makers prepare for bigger shock

As Japan's record earthquake struck at 2:46 p.m on March 11, Hidenori Tsukatani crawled under his desk and thought to himself: Now we will find out.
BUSINESS
Jun 9, 2011

Quake reinsurance rates rise 20-60%, Swiss firm says

Reinsurers, taking record first-quarter losses on the Tohoku earthquake and other disasters, are raising prices for coverage of temblors in Japan by as much as 60 percent, Swiss Reinsurance Co. said.
BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2011

Tepco debt swaps facing 53% chance of defaulting

The cost of protecting Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s debt shows the likelihood of a default increased to 53 percent after the utility's credit rating was cut to junk status by Standard & Poor's.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
May 29, 2011

The hot, sticky summer of our discontent

Last summer went on record as Japan's hottest ever, as the daytime mercury seemed stubbornly stuck in the 33 to 36 degrees Celsius range while at nighttime it usually refused to budge to below the 25 C mark.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 25, 2011

Sony's fiscal year hurt by 'smack in the eye'

For Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer, this was supposed to be Sony Corp.'s year.
COMMENTARY
May 21, 2011

Exploiting the ocean's riches

In the 1970s, the oil and natural gas industry decided to take a leap into the deep. With many of the biggest and cheapest petroleum deposits on land already discovered, the search for new finds went offshore into ever-deeper waters.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 17, 2011

Tepco CDSs leap on loan writeoff remark

Credit-default swaps on Tokyo Electric Power Co. are trading at a three-week high after the government's chief spokesman said public pressure may force lenders to write off loans to the troubled utility.

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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.
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