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BUSINESS
Dec 29, 2007

MMC signs incentive agreement with Russia

Mitsubishi Motors Corp., Japan's fastest-growing car exporter, has signed an agreement with the Russian government granting it incentives to assemble vehicles in the country, where economic growth is boosting auto demand, the carmaker said in a statement Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Dec 25, 2007

Natsuki Maeda

Shop clerk Natsuki Maeda, 19, is a charismatic fashion leader in Tokyo's world-famous Shibuya 109 building, the epicenter of cool threads for girls and for women who, regardless of their age, would like to look as young as they feel. Working in one of the 100 shops here is synonymous with celebrity status,...
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2007

Machinery orders rise at double the expected pace

Machinery orders rebounded in October, rising at twice the pace economists had forecast, suggesting companies are confident sales in Asia and Europe will compensate for waning demand from the U.S.
BUSINESS
Nov 28, 2007

Sumitomo Mitsui eyes income boost from investors

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. plans to increase income from individuals by ¥100 billion within three years by selling a wider array of financial products.
BUSINESS
Nov 28, 2007

Export demand boosts car output

Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. boosted production in October on rising overseas demand.
BUSINESS
Nov 27, 2007

Business declines for life insurers

Reeling from an industrywide scandal involving the systematic nonpayment of insurance benefits, major life insurance companies saw new contracts fall in the six months to September, according to earnings reports released Monday.
BUSINESS
Nov 21, 2007

Most nonlife insurers see profit increase

Profits at most major nonlife insurers jumped in the six months to September, thanks partly to brisk gains from investments in stocks and funds that escaped the turmoil generated by the subprime housing loan crisis in the U.S., the companies said Tuesday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Nov 14, 2007

Online music store helps Japanese music go global

You've heard the stories: The music industry is in crisis, CD sales are dropping year on year, iTunes is taking over the world, the future is digital, the revolution is here. While a lot of this may be true, music fans could be forgiven for some cynicism when all about them the music industry seeks to...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 11, 2007

Boy band's effort to recharge battery in solar debate falls flat

In the fall of 2003, the boy band TOKIO embarked from Tokyo on a journey to cover the entire coastline of Japan in a 1997 Daihatsu Hijet minivan that they had refit themselves with a solar roof-panel and a battery-powered engine. Driving in shifts of two, the five members have, as of the most recent...
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2007

G.communication has grown quickly on M&As

Nagoya-based G.communication grp., the firm taking over part of the failed language school chain Nova Corp., has grown rapidly in the past few years via aggressive mergers and acquisitions.
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2007

Quick profits, yes, but merger mania has its share of failures

Mergers and acquisitions are making headlines as companies increasingly seize on consolidations to generate quick profits to reward shareholders and cope with intensifying competition in a saturated domestic market.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2007

Nova fall just simple math: it bled red

A 330-sq.-meter office with a double bed, sauna and tea room was where Nozomu Sahashi, ousted president of Nova Corp., worked as the language school chain steadily teetered near bankruptcy over the past few years.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / ON THE ROAD
Oct 28, 2007

Design climbs into the driver's seat

Japanese automakers' attention to the style stakes is on display at the Tokyo Motor Show, but they still need to shift it up a gear.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2007

DoCoMo profits plunge 21% in half year as users defect to rivals

NTT DoCoMo Inc. reported a 21 percent drop in operating profit for the April-September period Friday, reflecting its loss of customers to rivals KDDI Corp. and Softbank Corp.
BUSINESS
Oct 24, 2007

NEC plans to build new power chip plant

NEC Electronics Corp. said it will spend ¥5 billion building a power chip factory to meet demand for semiconductors that control the flow of electricity.
BUSINESS
Oct 12, 2007

Fast posts 21% profit drop for year

Fast Retailing Co.'s profit declined for the business year that ended Aug. 31, due mainly to a warm winter and rising personnel, advertising and promotional costs, the company said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Oct 10, 2007

Nissan eyes 2008 entry into Korea

Nissan Motor Co., looking to counter falling domestic demand, said Tuesday it plans to challenge Hyundai Motor Co. in South Korea's growing vehicle market by introducing Nissan brand models there next year.
‘We have drawn lessons,’ Indian Army chief says of brief clash with Pakistan
Indian Army chief Upendra Dwivedi waves as he arrives to attend the ceremonial reception of Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in New Delhi in May.
Japanese immunologist among three Nobel medicine prize winners
Shimon Sakaguchi, an immunologist and distinguished professor at Osaka University, attends a news conference after winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in medicine, in Osaka Prefecture on Monday.
Spanish tourist injured in latest bear attack
Shirakawago, a U.N. World Heritage site in Gifu Prefecture
Americans and Canadians unite in battling 'eating machine' carp
A Fisheries and Oceans Canada team patrols the Grand River in Dunnville, Ontario, in search of invasive grass carp specimens on Sept. 25.
Trump hails 'wisdom and strength' of Japan's incoming prime minister
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, gives a news conference after the LDP presidential election in Tokyo on Saturday.
Takaichi, the LDP’s first female president, is far from an ‘overnight success’
Newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party chief Sanae Takaichi greets her fellow LDP members on Saturday at party headquarters.
‘We have drawn lessons,’ Indian Army chief says of brief clash with Pakistan
Indian Army chief Upendra Dwivedi waves as he arrives to attend the ceremonial reception of Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in New Delhi in May.
How a family-run landscaper turned the Osaka Expo green
The team at Ryokukou Garden consists primarily of a single family, including Toshiki Tanisaki (second from right), who led the company's efforts at the Osaka Expo, Chikako Tanisaki (fifth from right), who performs daily maintanence at the expo, and Takeshi Tanisaki (fourth from right), who added a nursery to the family farm more than 50 years ago.
Eat your balloons: The culinary theater of Grant Achatz comes to Tokyo
Avant-garde chef Grant Achatz and his team from Alinea are in Tokyo for a three-week residency.
Japan’s first foreign wine investor plants its roots in Hokkaido
Intrigued by Japanese wines, Burgundy winemaker Etienne de Montille decided to explore Hokkaido's wine scene, eventually setting up his outpost in Hakodate in 2017.

Podcast

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

Longform

Growing families are being priced out of Tokyo’s condo market, forced to choose between downtown convenience and suburban space.
Is living in central Tokyo still affordable?
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