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JAPAN
Oct 4, 2000

Firms continue to be optimistic: 'tankan'

The outlook of the nation's corporations -- particularly large manufacturers -- continued to improve over the past three months, according to the latest quarterly "tankan" business sentiment survey, released Tuesday by the Bank of Japan.
BUSINESS
Sep 30, 2000

Household outlays decline for fourth month

Spending by salaried workers' households fell 2.9 percent in August from a year earlier, the fourth straight month of decline, a preliminary report released Friday by the Management and Coordination Agency shows.
COMMUNITY
Sep 28, 2000

New garter-free stockings get a leg up on the market

Japanese women have long been attached to nylon pantyhose, wearing them even during the hot and humid summer months. Despite the fashion for bare legs and sandals, many working women continue to wear pantyhose to the office in the sweltering heat.
COMMUNITY
Sep 24, 2000

Harry Potter in the Middle Kingdom

BEIJING -- He's your average, 11-year-old Muggle. An only child, prone to mischief whenever possible, he prefers computer games to books. Or at least he did, until he became a guinea pig for 300 million other children.
BUSINESS
Sep 19, 2000

Three insurers announce tieup

In the latest round of consolidation in the insurance sector, Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance Co., Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Co. and Nichido Fire & Marine Insurance Co. announced Monday they have agreed to a comprehensive tieup, with a view toward integrating their management in the future.
BUSINESS
Sep 8, 2000

April-June investment rose 2.2% on year

Capital investment by Japanese companies expanded 2.2 percent in the April-June quarter from a year earlier on an all-industry basis for the second consecutive quarter of increase, the Finance Ministry said Thursday.
JAPAN
Sep 5, 2000

Snow Brand to end compensation

Snow Brand Milk Products Co., at the center of a food-poisoning scandal involving its milk, will cease compensating retail agents for falling sales toward the end of this month, company officials said Monday.
BUSINESS
Aug 15, 2000

Corporate bankruptcies set postwar record in July

Corporate bankruptcies in Japan continued to grow in July with combined liabilities topping 4 trillion yen, the largest on record in postwar Japan, a private credit research agency said Monday.
BUSINESS
Aug 11, 2000

Honda cites strong yen in profit drop

Honda Motor Co. on Thursday reported consolidated pretax profits of 101.7 billion yen for the first quarter of fiscal 2000, down 15.9 percent from the same period last year.
COMMUNITY
Aug 7, 2000

Dieters take lesson from diabetics

In the health-food section of many major department stores, large quantities of boil-bag diabetic meals have become a familiar sight. Recently the meals have been selling well, but sales are being boosted not by diabetes sufferers, but by healthy women in their 20s and 30s who want to lose weight.
BUSINESS
Aug 6, 2000

Seibu mulls business tieup with Sogo

Seibu Department Stores Ltd. is considering a wide-ranging business tieup with collapsed Sogo Co. in a move that could lead to a merger and herald an era of retail industry realignment, industry sources said Saturday.
ENVIRONMENT
Aug 3, 2000

Eco-conscious but comfortable: making environmentalism hip

Last year when advertising agencies asked Kazumi Oguro what his rival magazine was, he replied: "I wouldn't have to put out a new magazine if there was a rival."
JAPAN
Jun 25, 2000

Aum-staffed PC shop opens after week delay

A personal computer shop run by two human rights activists and staffed by eight followers of Aum Shinrikyo opened for business Saturday in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward, one week after the scheduled opening.
BUSINESS
Jun 23, 2000

Four out of five car companies increased production in May

All but one of Japan's five leading automakers hiked their worldwide production in May over the previous year, according to data released by the five companies Thursday.
JAPAN
Jun 11, 2000

Children's book publishers searched over alleged cartel

The Fair Trade Commission has searched six publishers of children's books over allegations they had formed a cartel, sources close to the case said Saturday.
BUSINESS
Jun 8, 2000

Nissho Iwai sees profits quintupling in five years

Restructuring trading house Nissho Iwai Corp. is hoping to increase its annual group pretax profit to 100 billion yen in five years, more than a fivefold increase from the 18.2 billion yen it registered in fiscal 1999, company sources said Wednesday.
EDITORIALS
May 31, 2000

Bright prospects for corporate Japan

Corporate-earnings reports for fiscal 1999, which ended March 31, provide further evidence of a budding recovery in the corporate sector. Most of the companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange posted their first net profit increase in three years. On a consolidated basis, pretax profits surged an estimated...
BUSINESS
May 29, 2000

Coleman ventures beyond camping to stamp image on new generation

For many outside Japan, the name Coleman is likely to conjure up images of tents and weekend camping trips by a roaring campfire.
ENVIRONMENT
May 29, 2000

Japan getting into some very deep water

"Deep seawater" is a magic word that seems to make consumers believe any product made with it will be healthier and of higher quality.
BUSINESS
May 27, 2000

Softbank net profit fell 77.5% in '99

Softbank Corp. said Friday it registered a consolidated net profit of 8.45 billion yen in fiscal 1999, down 77.5 percent from the previous year.
BUSINESS
May 24, 2000

JR East posts triple rise in net profit

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) said Tuesday its group net profit in fiscal 1999 leaped threefold from the previous year, following two consecutive years of setbacks.
BUSINESS
May 23, 2000

'99 tertiary industry logs 2% growth

Activity in Japan's tertiary industries grew 2 percent in fiscal 1999 over the previous period for the first year-on-year rise in three years, according to a preliminary report issued Monday by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
BUSINESS
May 23, 2000

Domestic auto production on the increase

Japan's five largest automakers increased domestic production in April from a year earlier, with Toyota Motor Corp. reporting a 13.3 percent rise, according to data released by the companies Monday.
BUSINESS
May 20, 2000

Mitsubishi group's net profits drop 78% to 5.57 billion yen

Trading house Mitsubishi Corp. said Friday that its group net profits plunged 78 percent to 5.57 billion yen in fiscal 1999, on sales of 13.109 trillion yen, down 4.2 percent.
BUSINESS
May 16, 2000

Special losses at DDI, IDO weigh down bottom line

Telecommunications firms DDI Corp. and IDO Corp., which plan to merge with international call operator KDD Corp. in the fall, released their 1999 earnings reports Monday showing lower pretax profits despite higher sales.
BUSINESS
May 15, 2000

Female condoms perfect fit for Japanese market

Amid rising concern over the spread of AIDS throughout Asia, The Female Health Company of Chicago has begun shipping the first of 2.5 million female condoms to Japan through local partner Taiho Pharmaceutical.
‘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.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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