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Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 14, 2001

Country roads take them to new homes

Get away. Away from squeezing yourself into a packed train, making your way in a slow-moving human tide up stairs and through ticket gates. From walking in a crowd like a soldier ant, trotting ahead to avoid cigarette smoke from a man in front, only to breathe in foul diesel fumes at intersections on...
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2001

Matsushita predicts deficit will deepen to 68 billion yen

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. has revised downward its earnings projections for the first half of fiscal 2001, company officials said Friday.
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2001

Japan to propose use of IT to cut APEC customs costs

Japan plans to propose in a ministerial meeting next week in Shanghai that information technology be used to cut procedural costs for customs clearance in the 21 Pacific Rim economies, Japanese officials said Friday.
BUSINESS
Oct 12, 2001

Popular U.S.-Japan Common Agenda hangs in limbo

Is the Common Agenda dead or alive under the Republican administration of U.S. President George W. Bush?
BUSINESS
Oct 11, 2001

Yamaha cuts earnings forecasts

Yamaha Corp. said Wednesday it has revised downward its group earnings forecast for the first half and full 2001 business year due to sales declines in musical instruments and information technology-related devices.
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2001

Future competitive gains to be limited to high-tech sectors: DBJ

Any competitive gains Japan is likely to make in the next five to 10 years will only occur in the information technology and high-tech chemical products sectors, the quasi-governmental Development Bank of Japan said Tuesday.
Events
Oct 2, 2001

Nation's cable music man turns his attention to broadband

OSAKA -- Music, as we're often reminded, is a universal language. In Japan it is also ubiquitous.
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2001

Koizumi, Mbeki talk of expanded cooperation for Africa

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and visiting South African President Thabo Mbeki agreed Monday to step up cooperation on Africa's development and also pledged to cooperate with global efforts against terrorism.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 28, 2001

Sesame Street for better English learning

The creators of "Sesame Street" are developing new content and materials to make the highly successful children's television program more useful for Japanese children learning English.
BUSINESS
Sep 28, 2001

Dentsu boosts Asian outlay

Advertising agency Dentsu Inc. said Thursday it will invest 6.6 billion yen in its Asian operations.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVE
Sep 17, 2001

Inflation targets no substitute for needed structural reform

The 0.8 percent contraction in the second quarter gross domestic product, coupled with dive in Tokyo share prices, has increased pressure on the Bank of Japan to further ease its already loose monetary grip by setting inflation targets. Tuesday's terrorist attacks in the United States and the ensuing...
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2001

Nissan, Renault make integration effort

Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA said Thursday they will launch a joint organization later this month to study ways to integrate their information systems as they move toward joint worldwide automotive operations.
BUSINESS
Sep 13, 2001

Fear, shock push Nikkei below 10,000

Tokyo stocks fell sharply Wednesday, as shock and fear pushed the benchmark Nikkei average of 225 leading stocks below the psychologically sensitive 10,000 mark for the first time in 17 years, closing at 9,610.10.
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2001

Nikkei hits 10,195 in lowest close since 1984

The Nikkei stock average plunged to a fresh 17-year low Monday after Friday's tumble on Wall Street and a negative report on domestic machinery orders erased a rally sparked by a Finance Ministry comment out of Shanghai.
BUSINESS
Sep 8, 2001

Steel firms drop earnings outlook

Five major steelmakers on Friday revised downward earnings forecasts for the year to March due to decreased profitability springing from flagging demand and product prices.
BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2001

Nippon Steel expands ties with POSCO to include IT

Nippon Steel Corp. has said its strategic business alliance with South Korea's Pohang Iron & Steel Co., or POSCO, will be extended into such areas as information technology and resource development to strengthen their presence in the global market.
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2001

14,700 Hitachi staff to be cut in IT slump

Hitachi Ltd. said Friday that it will abolish 14,700 jobs, or 4.5 percent of its 324,000-strong group workforce, by the end of March to help turn around declining earnings amid the slump in the information technology sector.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 17, 2001

Co-opting new elites divides Communists

"The 'Three Represents' is completely elitist," Cabestan said, referring to Jiang's well-publicized formulation for making the party represent the "most advanced production technology, the most advanced culture, and the broadest interests of the people."
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 16, 2001

Numerous problems slow efforts to safely scrap retired Russian nuclear submarines

BOLSHOI KAMEN, Russia -- Propped up onshore amid heaps of scrap metal at the Zvezda shipyard is one of the largest vehicles ever to cruise the planet -- the five-story hulk of a submarine that once carried intercontinental ballistic missiles targeting the United States.
BUSINESS
Aug 15, 2001

Bankruptcies dropped in July for first time in four months

The number of corporate bankruptcies fell 3.1 percent in July from a year earlier to 1,567, the first fall in four months, a private research institute said Tuesday.
COMMENTARY
Aug 10, 2001

Noblesse oblige in short supply

The immediate task for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is to wrap up a specific reform package. While his slogans — "Structural reform with no sacred cows" and "No economic recovery without structural reform" — are basically supported here and abroad, stock prices have continued to fall.
COMMENTARY
Aug 6, 2001

Voodoo economics rule the day

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's oft-repeated slogan, "There will be no economic recovery without structural reforms," sounds familiar to most Japanese.
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2001

LDP policymakers push PFI merits

Several policymakers of the Liberal Democratic Party said at a meeting Thursday that private finance initiatives should be deployed to improve the nation's infrastructure and boost the ailing economy.
COMMENTARY
Jul 31, 2001

Making decentralization work

In a recent report, a state panel urged the central government to transfer more tax-collection power to local governments and help them secure their own tax revenues. I have no objections to the proposal, made by the Decentralization Promotion Committee in its final report to Prime Minister Junichiro...
‘Demon Slayer’ movie slashes its own box office records
“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle” is the first installment in a trilogy that's set to wrap the anime adaptation of Koyoharu Gotoke's manga about sword-wielding heroes fighting man-eating demons.
Kyoto University researchers find mechanism behind malignant pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer, the third-leading cause of cancer death in Japan, has the lowest five-year survival rate of any cancer at just 8.5%.
Tokyo is the No. 2 choice for international students
The University of Tokyo. International students are increasingly flocking to Asia, with affordability being a particularly important metric.
Ishiba rules out joint document on U.S. tariffs as deal's details trickle out
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a speech at an event in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Friday afternoon.
Japan's average life expectancy in 2024 almost unchanged from 2023, data shows
The average life expectancy of Japanese citizens in 2024 is 81.09 years for men and 87.13 years for women, according to the health ministry.
Behind the scenes: Inside Fuji Rock’s strategy for staying on top
In recent years, Fuji Rock has had fewer blockbuster performers and showcased more top-selling Japanese acts and international musicians' first-time performances in Japan.
Tokyo is the No. 2 choice for international students
The University of Tokyo. International students are increasingly flocking to Asia, with affordability being a particularly important metric.
Hall of Fame always held deeper meaning for Ichiro
Ichiro presents then-Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson with the bat he used to break the single-season hits record in 2004.
Japan leans into homegrown AI amid rising competition
McKinsey’s 2025 Technology Trends Outlook, published Wednesday, says that the use of “sovereign AI” is a trend gaining significant global traction, including in Japan.
JT picks: What not to miss at Fuji Rock 2025
Fuji Rock Festival turns the green slopes of Niigata Prefecture’s Naeba Ski Resort into a summer escape that offers soundtracks for every mood.

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