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JAPAN
Jun 8, 2000

Capital investment at firms rises 3.3%

Corporate investment in plants and equipment rose 3.3 percent in the January-March quarter from a year earlier, marking the first year-on-year increase in more than two years.
BUSINESS
Jun 7, 2000

Nikkei poised to see more ups than downs

The Tokyo stock market appears to be gathering steam for bursts of high-priced activity in the months ahead.
BUSINESS
Jun 7, 2000

NKK ready to hit retail electricity market

Major steelmaker NKK Corp. said Tuesday that it will begin to supply electric power to trading house Mitsubishi Corp. this summer, making it the first Japanese steelmaker to retail electricity.
BUSINESS
Jun 6, 2000

Market clear of latest correctional phase

The Tokyo stock market has crawled out of a corrective phase, with the key market indexes recouping much of their recent losses.
EDITORIALS
Jun 4, 2000

And one for the dame

The world of culture, broadly considered, suffered a trio of notable losses recently. At the high end of the spectrum, widely and uncontroversially mourned, were the British Shakespearean actor Sir John Gielgud (with his voice "like a silken trumpet") and the French flutist ("the man with the golden...
JAPAN
Jun 4, 2000

Seiji Ozawa photo book yanked from bookstores

The sales agency for the Japanese edition of a collection of photographs of world-renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa has begun pulling the book from store shelves after discovering it was published without Ozawa's permission.
BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2000

New JAMA chief wants taxes untangled

Hiroshi Okuda, new chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, is determined to push the government into rectifying the vehicle tax system and reducing the burden on car owners.
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
May 31, 2000

The Net impact of giving

Last week I looked at the power of bulk buying that is being unleashed on Web sites such as Mercata and Mobshop. I genuinely like the concept, particularly because I like new models of e-commerce that push the Web's potential. If the aggregated consumer trend takes off like eBay, the wired consumer might...
BUSINESS
May 27, 2000

DVD firms, copyright groups near royalty deal

DVD equipment producers and copyright organizations are expected to reach an agreement under which makers will raise wholesale prices of their DVD recording machines and discs by 1 percent to cover the cost of paying royalties to the organizations, industry sources said Friday.
BUSINESS
May 27, 2000

NTT group's robust earnings belie deregulation rhetoric

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. on Friday released its first consolidated financial statement since its group reorganization in July, posting pretax profits of 825 billion yen on the group sales of 10.4 trillion yen for fiscal 1999.
BUSINESS
May 25, 2000

No end in sight for treadmill of bad loans

It has been the same story for years. When banks release their earnings reports in May, bank officials say they have written off their bad loans "pre-emptively." Since they have written off huge portions of their problem loans, their future costs for bad-loan disposal will be marginal, they say.
BUSINESS
May 25, 2000

Three shipbuilding firms in talks on 350 billion yen alliance

is planning comprehensive talks with Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. and Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. on a major shipbuilding tieup, industry sources said Wednesday. The alliance, which would have some 350 billion yen in combined sales, would be Japan's largest shipbuilding union, outperforming...
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
May 24, 2000

Shopping with the herd

We track the tickers of global auctions. We flock to comparative shopping sites seeking the deal of the century. We sign up for sweepstakes galore and even occasionally invite vendors into our in-boxes to inform us of their latest discounts.
BUSINESS
May 23, 2000

Sumitomo, Sakura back in black

Sumitomo Bank and Sakura Bank returned to the black in fiscal 1999, partly due to gains from sales of stocks and fewer bad-loan writeoffs compared to the year before, according to their earnings reports released Monday.
BUSINESS
May 20, 2000

FamilyMart opens joint e-commerce firm

Japanese convenience store operator FamilyMart Co. was to set up a joint venture with six other firms Friday to bring e-commerce to convenience stores.
BUSINESS
May 20, 2000

Nonlife insurance firms hit fork in road

Polarization between winners and losers became apparent Friday when the nation's major and second-tier nonlife insurance companies released their earning reports for fiscal 1999.
BUSINESS
May 11, 2000

Honda to improve safety with multiple crash tests

Honda Motor Co. will improve the safety of its cars through realistic crash tests involving multiple cars colliding at various angles, Hiroyuki Yoshino, president of the major Japanese automaker, said Wednesday.
JAPAN
May 9, 2000

Takashimaya enters Nagoya on quest for piece of the pie

NAGOYA -- For 20 years, the city with the nation's highest private savings rate had only four major department stores.
JAPAN
May 3, 2000

Harmonica craze hits high note

Considering he's been out of work for over seven months, you'd expect Yusuke Ozaki's harmonica playing to hit a melancholic note.
COMMUNITY
Apr 20, 2000

The TW200 takes a ride on the wild side

If the TW200 was a person rather than a motorbike, it would be flooded with offers to star in before-and-after ads for a trendy esthetic salon.
BUSINESS
Mar 28, 2000

Car manufacturer alliances aim to exploit partners' strengths

As Mitsubishi Motors Corp. on Monday announced a capital tieup with DaimlerChrysler AG, the dust may begin to settle from a series of realignments that have changed the landscape of Japan's automotive industry.
BUSINESS
Mar 24, 2000

Toyota, GM, Yamaha tie up on Web

Toyota Motor Corp. is planning to advertise on its Web site cars manufactured by General Motors Corp. of the United States and motorcycles made by Yamaha Motor Co., company sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Mar 22, 2000

Aum firms concealed income

Two personal computer-related companies affiliated with Aum Shinrikyo failed to declare some 700 million yen in taxable income in 1997 and 1998, sources said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 22, 2000

0.2% increase in capital spending seen

Major Japanese corporations are planning to invest 0.2 percent more on equipment in fiscal 2000, the first increase in four years, the government-affiliated Development Bank of Japan said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 21, 2000

Troubled Toshiba to keep president

Toshiba Corp. President Taizo Nishimuro will likely remain in the top post even though the firm is expected to post losses for a second consecutive business year, informed sources said.
BUSINESS
Mar 16, 2000

SESC calls for brokerage to be punished for fraud

The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission recommended Wednesday that financial regulators punish Minami Securities Co. for fraudulently selling corporate bonds, commission officials said.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 15, 2000

China remains a paradise for pirates

Even by the standards of China's billion-dollar piracy industry, it was a remarkable gaffe. The Guangzhou No. 11 Rubber Factory had opened its doors to London International Group executives, hoping to produce Durex condoms in China. As they moved from the latex dippers to the packaging lines, that something...
BUSINESS
Mar 14, 2000

Nissho Iwai and Nichimen to unite materials units

Nissho Iwai Corp. and Nichimen Corp. announced Monday that they have agreed to merge their building materials subsidiaries on July 1 in response to the sluggish domestic market.
EDITORIALS
Mar 12, 2000

Here comes the cashless society

The experts may be right that e-commerce and online shopping represent the unstoppable wave of the future. But with all the media attention being lavished on cybermarketing, perhaps not enough attention is being paid to other new ways in which determined merchants are trying to get reluctant consumers...
Australian firm produces heavy rare earth, in first outside China
The Lynas Rare Earths processing plant in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Random stabbing cases in Japan raise fears: Could the next victim be me?
Police officers stand guard on May 7 outside Todaimae Station in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward after a random stabbing that injured a University of Tokyo student.
Nissan to solicit early retirements while eyeing plant closures in Japan
Nissan's Oppama plant in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, may be closed as part of the struggling carmaker's streamlining efforts.
Man falls to his death from Osaka condo, killing cyclist below
Osaka's Kita Ward. Two men died Monday morning in the ward after a man fell from a high-rise condominium and struck a passing cyclist below, according to local police.
Police arrest Chinese man in Saitama hit-and-run case
Police questioned a man who turned himself in as he closely resembled the driver recorded on the dashcam of another vehicle that happened to pass by the scene of a hit-and-run incident in Saitama Prefecture.
Agnes b. Japan CEO hopes to evolve the brand with focus on sustainability
Laurent Patouillet, the CEO and president of Agnes b. Japan, says the focus of its business is to remain independent, and evolve and adapt.
In Nintendo’s backyard, foreign indie game devs are thriving
Kyoto's gaming landscape is dominated by Nintendo's headquarters, but a contingent of foreign-born indie developers is also working in the gaming giant's shadow.
Akazawa's dilemma: no tariff deal or a half-baked deal
Chief tariff negotiator Ryosei Akazawa and his delegation in the Oval Office of the White House in April. Since then, Japan's trade negotiations with the U.S. have produced no tangible results.
For his first feature film, director Ryuya Suzuki created a masterpiece
"Jinsei," which follows its protagonist over a century, probes themes of identity and societal issues with a dark comic touch. The director, however, says he created the story without knowing where it would lead.
Historian Rob Fitts discovers earliest ever reference to baseball in Japan
Japan's Shohei Ohtani carries the Japanese flag onto the field before the start of the World Baseball Classic final against the United States in Miami on March 21, 2023.

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