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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 27, 2015

Japanese companies using the weak yen to beat profit targets

If you're searching for Japanese companies likely to beat earnings forecasts this quarter, one good place to start is the currency assumptions.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 27, 2015

Route to base camp blocked, scores stranded on Everest above 20,000 feet

Ankur Bahl, a New Delhi shipping industry specialist, was ascending Mount Everest as part of a quest to climb the world's tallest peaks when a devastating earthquake in Nepal stranded him about 21,000 feet above sea level.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 24, 2015

Loyalty to 1960s machine shows risk from Japan's aging factories

The oldest piece of equipment at Osaka Machine Tool Co. has been there so long that only the company's 70-year-old chairman, Katumi Takata, still knows how to use it. He isn't planning to replace it anytime soon.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Apr 23, 2015

Philippine customs head quits in blow to Aquino anti-graft drive

Philippine Customs Commissioner Sunny Sevilla said he submitted his resignation Wednesday, citing pressure to promote people without considering their merit for the jobs.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 23, 2015

SkyWest cabin pressure emergency spurs FAA probe

U.S. investigators are looking into why a SkyWest Inc. airplane with 75 passengers was forced to make an emergency landing in Buffalo, New York, on Wednesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 22, 2015

OMG, are GMOs altering our bodies?

Oh, for the innocent days of old, when one could lick ice cream cones or eat cupcakes with pink icing without thinking anything except "Do I get seconds?" Nowadays, no eating experience can be defined by such blissful ignorance, unless you want to get in the fast lane to the land of obesity, Type 2 diabetes,...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 22, 2015

Ex-currency chief fears BOJ exit nightmare on debt pile

Government debt twice the size of the economy will make exiting stimulus a nightmare for Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda, according to the nation's former top currency official.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 21, 2015

JPMorgan's Japan head of equity research resigns

Jesper Koll is leaving JPMorgan Chase & Co. after running the firm's equity-research team in Tokyo for more than five years.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 21, 2015

A lone voice, Morgan Stanley says BOJ is winning and will taper stimulus in 2016

Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda has at least one strategist that shares the optimism he is showing in the world's third-largest economy.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 21, 2015

GE said to be in talks with Blackstone, Mitsubishi on sale of assets

General Electric Co. is discussing the sale of parts of its finance business, including the $74 billion U.S. commercial-lending unit, with potential buyers including Blackstone Group LP, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co., said people with knowledge of the matter.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 20, 2015

Sony unveils flagship Xperia Z4 smartphone in Japan

Sony Corp. unveiled the latest version of its flagship smartphone on Monday, with the product set to debut in Japan this summer.
WORLD
Apr 18, 2015

Israeli military networks breached by hackers using budget tools

Hackers have managed to penetrate computer networks associated with the Israeli military in an espionage campaign that skillfully packages existing attack software with trick emails, according to security researchers at Blue Coat Systems Inc.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 16, 2015

Rizap gym owner seeks to triple profit by shrinking waistlines

For Kenkou Corp., slimmer waistlines mean fatter profits.
Japan Times
JAPAN / TELLING LIVES
Apr 16, 2015

Expat champions tastes, roots of rural Japan

American Justin Potts, 33, is more fascinated with Japan's rural countryside than most Japanese and vexed by their lack of appreciation for its natural beauty, agricultural bounty and artistic cuisine.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 16, 2015

3D Robotics plans to launch $1,000 smart drone

3D Robotics Inc., North America's largest drone manufacturer, is introducing a $1,000 drone for consumers that simplifies flying and using the products.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 15, 2015

Bird flu infecting more U.S. poultry flocks, USDA reports

The number of U.S. poultry flocks infected with a deadly strain of bird flu rose on Tuesday as Iowa identified its first case and Minnesota confirmed eight more cases, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2015

Conference highlights need to empower women, embrace diversity in the workplace

A two-day conference aimed at empowering and inspiring women to bring about social change and elevate them as leaders was held last week in Tokyo, highlighting the need for greater diversity in the workplace.
WORLD
Apr 14, 2015

U.S. presses for probe into row at U.N. over whistle-blowers who warned of computer shipments to North Korea

Whistle-blowers at the United Nations patent agency say their concerns that computer shipments to North Korea may have violated sanctions were stifled for years.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 13, 2015

'Hidden inflation' bodes well for BOJ efforts to boost prices

If the Bank of Japan's core price gauge is anything to go by, inflation has all but disappeared. Try telling that to anyone who pays the bills.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Apr 13, 2015

To pay for WWII commemorative activites, groups tap crowdfunding spigot

An increasing number of citizens' groups in Japan trying to document firsthand accounts of the tragedies of World War II, which ended 70 years ago this year, are turning to crowdfunding, a popular way of raising funds via the Internet, to pay for cash-strapped projects.
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Apr 12, 2015

Bridging corruption and legitimacy: amakudari

Amakudari reaches into almost every aspect of civil and economic life, quietly taking its cut in the form of higher prices, obscure but lucrative monopolies and seemingly bizarre regulations.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Apr 11, 2015

Abe gets negative reviews ahead of U.S. visit

At the end of this month Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Washington, D.C. He can expect the red carpet treatment because he has ticked more boxes on the Pentagon's wish list than all his postwar predecessors combined.

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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
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