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CULTURE / Art
May 31, 2007

Photography now

The borderline between photojournalism and travel photography is hard to define.
SUMO
May 15, 2007

Sumo and an American woman's search for Hinkaku

The summer basho is underway and I, an American woman who has never been to Japan, am so excited.
BUSINESS
May 12, 2007

Pentax can let go of Hoya ties: camera exec

Backed by brisk earnings in 2006, a senior executive at Pentax Corp. said Friday the firm was confident it could go it alone without Hoya Corp.
BUSINESS
Apr 3, 2007

Business sentiment dropping: 'tankan'

Big manufacturers grew less optimistic about business conditions as global stock markets fell and concern about the future of the U.S. economy grew, according to the Bank of Japan's latest "tankan" corporate sentiment survey released Monday.
BUSINESS
Mar 16, 2007

IRCJ disbands, lauds role in fostering rehab leaders

The government-sponsored Industrial Revitalization of Corp. of Japan disbanded Thursday after overseeing 41 distressed companies with more than 30 billion yen in combined retained earnings.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 14, 2007

Patterson got raw deal from Blazers

NEW YORK -- In the judgment of billionaire Paul Allen, the last year of Steve Patterson's contract as the Blazers president/alternate governor/GM did not merit being exercised. This further confirms why I'll never be in position to make such weighty NBA decisions.
BUSINESS / SOUTH KOREAN JOURNALIST SYMPOSIUM
Feb 22, 2007

Japan, South Korea can pull Asia together

See related stories: China's rise may force Tokyo, Seoul to reassess business tie-ups Rules change, but Japan, S. Korea game the same
JAPAN
Feb 14, 2007

Tokyo positive but still cautious about new six-party deal

Senior government officials on Tuesday praised the landmark agreement reached in the six-party talks on the denuclearization of North Korea but were also cautious, saying Japan still has a long and difficult road ahead to keep the nation secure and resolve the abduction issue.
BUSINESS
Feb 14, 2007

Nikko vows better internal controls

Scandal-tainted Nikko Cordial Corp. announced on Tuesday measures to boost the group's internal controls to prevent accounting irregularities, including creation of a new section to prevent fraudulent deals involving affiliated companies.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2007

Women find voice over sexist gaffe

In harmony-loving Japan, women rarely take to the streets to protest the sexist remarks that routinely spill from the mouths of ruling politicians, and even the most outrageous comments go largely unpunished at the ballot box.
EDITORIALS
Jan 21, 2007

Holding off on a rate hike

The Bank of Japan's Policy Board has decided to maintain the overnight call rate, the key short-term interest rate, at 0.25 percent -- the rate it adopted last July when it scrapped its zero interest rate policy. The final conclusion of the Policy Board's discussions last week departs somewhat from BOJ...
COMMENTARY
Jan 8, 2007

Cabinet office losing its grip

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is under intense pressure to overhaul his administration after two scandal-tainted aides were forced to resign in December. The trouble came only three months after he took office.
JAPAN
Dec 29, 2006

Watanabe named new reform chief

A day after one of his Cabinet members resigned over a political funding scandal, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday appointed Yoshimi Watanabe as the new administrative reform minister.
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2006

Murakami enters plea of not guilty in NBS case

Yoshiaki Murakami, founder of Japan's best-known investment fund, pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of insider trading involving shares of Nippon Broadcasting System Inc.
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2006

Murakami enters plea of not guilty in NBS case

Yoshiaki Murakami, founder of Japan's best-known investment fund, pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of insider trading involving shares of Nippon Broadcasting System Inc.
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2006

Timid he's not, CNN's Quest calls them out as he sees them

There was no question it was the right floor at Tokyo's Intercontinental Hotel. The voice booming through the walls could only belong to one man.
JAPAN
Nov 15, 2006

Banned goods to North listed

goods that are likely to be used by (government and party) executives, and those they are likely to give to their subordinates," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki told a news conference. "North Korea's leaders need to be sent a strong message from the international community" and abide by the...

Longform

After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic