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Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Dec 21, 2009

Trends in Japan 2009: drinks

Let us raise a glass to the tippling trends of 2009: to cheap booze, less calories, more nostalgia and supposedly responsible drinking.
Japan Times
Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
Dec 17, 2009

Scary crow

Dear Alice,
BUSINESS
Dec 17, 2009

Moody's prods Japan on debt

Japan should set a "well-articulated" target to reduce government debt that is already the largest in the world, according to Moody's Investors Service.
BUSINESS
Dec 16, 2009

Price of Nikkei Shimbun to rise

The Nikkei, Japan's top-selling financial newspaper, will raise its price for the first time in a decade as newsstand sales decline.
BUSINESS
Dec 12, 2009

Nico Nico expects profit on ad revenue, member fees

Dwango Co., operator of YouTube's biggest rival in Japan, forecast its Nico Nico Video business will soon deliver something that Google Inc.'s online-video service has never achieved: profit.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 12, 2009

Tax cuts benefit domestic carmakers: U.S. firms

Japan's version of the Cash for Clunkers program intended to spur auto sales discriminates against imported vehicles, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC said.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Dec 11, 2009

(Near) death of a salesman

Amit started downloading music when he was 16 years old in India.
BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2009

Kanematsu to boost soybean shipments

Kanematsu Corp., Japan's largest importer of food soybeans, plans to boost sales of the oilseed by 67 percent in three years as it expands crop supply contracts in Canada and widens shipments to Europe and Asia.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Dec 6, 2009

Eco cars go up in smoke

Preadolescent tarento (TV celebrities) tend to provoke my gag reflex. I can only tolerate preternatural cuteness if it's presented without irony or intensification. Ten-year-old Nozomi Ohashi, who's famous for singing the theme song to the animated movie "Ponyo," has, according to her Wikipedia entry,...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2009

Jackson, Spidey not part of Sony's 3-D plan

Michael Jackson videos or the next "Spider-Man" movie won't be among the titles that Sony Corp. releases in 3-D as it gears up to boost TV sales, according to Chief Executive Howard Stringer.
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2009

Housing starts may drop to 48-year low

Housing starts may drop to a 48-year low as a sluggish economy discourages home buyers, according to Takeo Higuchi, head of the country's largest home builder.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 2, 2009

Hawaii holidays, Tiffany jewelry get yen boost

Mika Ueda, a 27-year-old office worker in Tokyo, and her friends had planned on spending the holidays in Japan. After the yen hit a 14-year high against the dollar last week, they set their sights on Guam or Hawaii.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Nov 30, 2009

Takarakuji: What's chance got to do with it?

Legend has it that lottery tickets sold at certain outlets are more likely to be the winning numbers. Never mind the odds of losing don't change.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
Nov 28, 2009

Japan water, solar tech high, global share low

Third in a series
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 27, 2009

A revolution off the record

As the clock struck midnight on Dec. 31, 1999, hundreds of thousands worldwide were reveling in clubs and arenas to the sounds of records played by their favorite DJs. Little were they to know that in the space of 10 years the record was to become an endangered species.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Nov 26, 2009

Taiyaki: the people's choice during hard times

Business would appear to be good for vendors of taiyaki, the cheap, sweet street food. And this isn't Japan's first taiyaki boom.
BUSINESS
Nov 26, 2009

Exports in October fell at slowest pace in year

Japan's exports fell at the slowest pace in a year in October as worldwide government spending boosted demand, sustaining the economic recovery, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Nov 21, 2009

Michelin exec fears Tokyo's star power may ruffle France's feathers

The Epicurean king who oversees the Michelin Guide fears he may be banished from France.
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2009

AMR, equity firm to match offer to JAL

American Airlines may team with private-equity firm TPG Inc. to invest at least $300 million in alliance partner Japan Airlines Corp., a source familiar with the plan said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2009

JFE pauses ship-building merger with IHI

JFE Holdings Inc.'s shipbuilding unit, the nation's second-largest by output, said plunging demand will force it to prolong its evaluation of the merger planned with IHI Corp., 19 months after the tieup was proposed.

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