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COMMENTARY
May 10, 2007

Who benefits from M&A?

LONDON — Mergers and acquisitions have been much in the news in the last few weeks. These have raised some controversial issues. One of these concerns the role of private equity. Another is that of cross-border mergers.
BUSINESS
May 9, 2007

Nippon Steel eyes India tieups as sector girds against takeovers

In late March, Nippon Steel Corp. President Akio Mimura was in New Delhi to attend a board meeting for the International Iron & Steel Institute.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
May 8, 2007

Naoki Sakai

Naoki Sakai, 60, is a designer whose revolutionary ideas have made him an industry powerhouse. After designing Nissan's Be-1, the vehicle that in the late 1980s started the round-and-cute car boom, Sakai came up with concepts for three more popular cars from Nissan — the PAO, Figaro and Rasheen —...
COMMENTARY / World
May 3, 2007

Unlike Yeltsin, Putin has luck on his side

WASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin's assertive foreign policy stance of recent years reflects the confidence that comes with a booming economy. In 1999, the year before Putin succeeded Boris Yeltsin as president, Russia's GDP was a paltry $200 billion. By last year, it had reached $1 trillion....
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 27, 2007

Japan finally warms to vulture culture

Time was when Japan Inc. shunned the heady world of corporate raiders as a vulture club anathema to the country's consensus culture.
BUSINESS
Mar 28, 2007

Ailing Nissan to halve domestic sales force

Continuing efforts to improve efficiency, struggling Nissan Motor Co. said Tuesday that it will reorganize its dealer network into 10 regional groups and halve its domestic sales workforce by the end of 2011.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Mar 24, 2007

Chandru G. Advani

This is the India Year in Japan 2007 and the Japan Year in India 2007. It is a significant time for every enterprise interested in the flow of information, goods and people between the two countries.
BUSINESS
Mar 16, 2007

Toyota frets U.S. political backlash: Okuda

The former head of Toyota acknowledged Wednesday the successful carmaker was worried about a possible political backlash in the United States to his company's booming success there in stark contrast to struggling U.S. rivals.
JAPAN
Mar 13, 2007

Horie didn't like his job, he was just good at it

to try to increase its value, just like any shareholder would," he said between frequent glances at his cell phone. Livedoor shares were trading at around 700 yen shortly after a stock split and before the firm was raided in January 2006 for alleged accounting fraud. By the time Livedoor was delisted...
EDITORIALS
Feb 28, 2007

Media must strive for accuracy

The blow-back continues from an incident involving the broadcast of falsified information on a variety show aired by Kansai Telecasting Corp. (known popularly as Kansai TV). The communications ministry plans to include a measure targeting the broadcast media in a bill to revise the Radio Law. Under the...
BUSINESS
Feb 27, 2007

Move on Sapporo double-edged

The move earlier this month by U.S. hedge fund Steel Partners to acquire Sapporo Holdings Ltd. is again raising the specter in corporate Japan of foreign raiders taking over established Japanese companies to turn a quick profit.
BUSINESS
Feb 25, 2007

Yamaha helped METI craft export rules

SHIZUOKA (Kyodo) Yamaha Motor Co. helped the trade ministry in 2005 formulate stricter export controls on unmanned helicopters, investigative sources said Saturday.
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2007

Sexually abused intern wins settlement

A former foreign intern reached an out-of-court settlement Monday with her host company in Japan and a male executive at the firm whom she had accused of repeatedly sexually abusing her while she was in a trainee program.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Feb 20, 2007

Assessing IRCJ, the government's bailout body

The government-backed bailout agency Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan will finish its work and close its doors as early as next month, a year earlier than planned. Since it was established in April 2003, the bailout body has helped debt-ridden companies, including major supermarket chain Daiei...
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2007

Hitachi's quarterly profit down 77%

Hitachi Ltd.'s group net profit for the October-December period fell more than three-quarters on lower earnings from securities, the Tokyo-based industrial electronics giant said Monday.
BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2007

Canon breaks records for net profit and sales

Canon Inc. said Monday that net profit rose 18.5 percent to a record 455.3 billion yen in 2006 as sales broke 4 trillion yen for the first time on robust interest in digital cameras and color laser printers and copiers.
Success of Chinese-made fighter jets against India raises alarm in Asia
Chinese J-10 fighter jets from the People's Liberation Army Air Force August 1st Aerobatics Team perform during a media demonstration at the Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, in November 2015.
Japan to recognize Taiwan as place of origin in family registration system
Masataka Yuhara, secretary-general of the Friends of Lee Teng Hui Association in Japan, which has been calling for "Taiwan" to be permitted as a place of origin in family registers.
Japanese retailers turn to California rice for cheaper alternative
U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass eats California rice at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Tuesday along with Mitsuko Tsuchiya, vice president of retailer Aeon.
Japanese automakers looking at a ¥1 trillion hit from Trump tariffs 
Cars on display at Nissan's headquarters in Yokohama on Tuesday. The automaker posted a massive annual net loss and confirmed that it plans to cut thousands of jobs worldwide.
Two crew feared dead after ASDF training jet crashes in Aichi
Self-Defense Forces personnel collect apparent parts of an Air Self-Defense Force T-4 training jet from a reservoir in Inuyama, Aichi Prefeture, on Thursday. The jet crashed shortly after takeoff a day earlier.
Sumo title contenders already emerging in early stages of Tokyo meet
Onosato (left) battles Abi on Day 3 of the Summer Basho in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Harmfully hot days for pregnant women in Japan nearly doubled over past five years
New research by a U.S. climate scientists’ group reveals that extreme heat has increased the risks of preterm births and other pregnancy complications in Japan, nearly doubling the number of days that are harmfully hot for pregnant women over the past five years.
Japanese automakers looking at a ¥1 trillion hit from Trump tariffs 
Cars on display at Nissan's headquarters in Yokohama on Tuesday. The automaker posted a massive annual net loss and confirmed that it plans to cut thousands of jobs worldwide.
Tokyo Stock Exchange wants stocks to be affordable for the average investor
The Tokyo Stock Exchange building in Nihonbashi. The exchange wants companies to lower the entry cost of investing in their shares.
Consumption tax set to dominate Upper House election debate
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba enters his office in Tokyo on Tuesday.

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