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COMMUNITY
Feb 23, 2002

Beauty and brains behind company clear as glass

Company President Narumi Tanaka is alone Monday morning, holding the fort in her office in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. Her staff -- three full-timers, one part-timer and her husband -- are out and about on what she calls "the client site." A good thing, we agree, because it means TRANSe Project is at full...
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2002

Matsushita looking at losses of 438 billion yen

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Thursday it expects to log consolidated net losses of 438 billion yen in fiscal 2001.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / MATTER OF COURSE
Feb 22, 2002

The serious business of clubbing together

My 10-year-old is in the school basketball club but is thinking about switching to another club. He's been agonizing over this decision, which tells you something about the importance of school clubs in Japan.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2002

Lifetime employee laments end to her dream of promotion

Setsuko Tanao, an employee at Nomura Securities Co., has fought for gender equality in the workplace since joining the firm's Osaka branch as a high school graduate in 1961.
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2002

Wire making firms promise unions to avoid staff cuts

The management of Furukawa Electric Co., Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. and four other leading electric wire makers promised in recent negotiations with their labor unions that they would make "utmost efforts" to avoid job cuts, union officials said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2002

Official in mad cow scandal declined meat industry job

A former top farm ministry bureaucrat blamed for the outbreak of mad cow disease had been scheduled to take a post at a meat-industry organization but later declined the position, ministry officials confirmed Saturday.
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2002

Education officials inspect scandal-hit junior college

Officials with the education ministry, including Hiroshi Tsuboi, head of the division on foreign students, conducted inspections Thursday at a scandal-tainted junior college in Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture, ministry officials said.
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2002

Asahi Mutual Life to deepen cuts

Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Co. will deepen planned pay and staff cuts because a business integration scheme with Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance Co. had to be scrapped in January, company sources said.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Feb 14, 2002

Utah host to more than Olympics

With the 2002 Winter Olympics happening in Salt Lake City, the world will recognize that Utah is America's greatest mecca for skiing. But Utah is also an exporter of video games.
JAPAN / CLOSE NEIGHBORS
Feb 14, 2002

Lawmakers' views of past still plague relations

An education ministry panel's approval last April of a history textbook, which critics denounced as attempting to glorify Japan's wartime past, drew a quick response from South Korean politicians.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Feb 10, 2002

Japanese women 'defect' to the West

WOMEN ON THE VERGE: Japanese Women, Western Dreams, by Karen Kelsky. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001, pp. 294, $18.95 (paper) The pursuit of "things foreign" has become an increasingly common activity of Japanese women in recent decades. Whether it be through study and work abroad, or through...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Feb 10, 2002

Better living through cosmetic enhancement

Several months ago, this column discussed how plastic surgery had transcended its basic meaning as a technique of improving on nature to become a means toward self-actualization. People who once tried to hide their face-lifts and nose jobs now trumpet them proudly, because they believe that feeling better...
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Feb 10, 2002

Battle begins for security, 'other stuff'

WASHINGTON -- In his first formal State of the Union address, President George W. Bush portrayed the terrorism threat in stark detail, disclosing that American forces in Afghanistan have found diagrams of U.S. nuclear power plants and suggested that "tens of thousands of trained terrorists are still...
COMMENTARY
Feb 9, 2002

French election an open race

PARIS -- The first round of the French presidential election will take place in less than 100 days. Strange as it may seem, neither of the two main contenders, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and President Jacques Chirac, has formally declared his candidacy.
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Feb 8, 2002

Making a big difference in little places

Rachel Rawlings was surprised when she ran into two famous Japanese comedians in the parking lot outside her local village office. The popular television stars, Shofukutei Tsurube and Kazuki Enari, were astonished, too. Why was a young Australian woman living in a fishing village in Kochi Prefecture?...
EDITORIALS
Feb 7, 2002

An optimistic economic outlook

How will Japan's economy develop from fiscal 2002 through 2006? The official answer, in a nutshell, is that it will stage a slow but steady recovery led by private demand. Under the circumstances, that is probably the most the government can hope for. The big question is whether this scenario will come...
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2002

Vocational aid to be more strict

The prolonged economic slump has, paradoxically, led to flourishing trade at a variety of vocational schools around the country.
BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2002

Diet passes 2.5 trillion yen extra budget

The Diet on Friday passed the government-proposed 2.5 trillion yen second supplementary budget for the current fiscal year, securing funds for programs to shore up the economy and prevent it from falling into a deflationary spiral.
BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2002

Fujitsu reports 106 billion yen loss in latest quarter

Major electronics manufacturer Fujitsu Ltd. incurred consolidated losses of 106.1 billion yen for the October-December quarter of fiscal 2001, compared with net losses of 69 billion yen in the same period the previous year, company officials said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jan 29, 2002

Keidanren, Nikkeiren still have hurdles to clear

The Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) and the Japan Federation of Employers' Associations (Nikkeiren) are putting the final touches on mandatory procedures for their much ballyhooed integration, scheduled for May 28.
BUSINESS
Jan 26, 2002

Firms to expedite restructuring, boost profits

Major Japanese companies are expected to boost their profitability through restructuring efforts from 2002 and thus revitalize the local stock market, according to a Japanese unit of Zurich-based Credit Suisse Group AG.
JAPAN
Jan 25, 2002

Meiji Life to merge with Yasuda Mutual

Meiji Life Insurance Co. and Yasuda Mutual Life Insurance Co. announced plans Thursday to merge by April 2004, putting the heat on other life insurers to follow suit in a bid to survive share price plunges, cutthroat competition and a decline in policyholders.
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Jan 24, 2002

A case for campaign finance reform

WASHINGTON -- Controversy is raging about the Enron collapse. Is it a political story? Is it a criminal story? Is it a business story? Is it a story about personalities? The Enron story is all three. The real question is which category is the most important. and that all depends on your perspective....
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2002

Labor bureaus asked to localize job aid

Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Chikara Sakaguchi on Wednesday called on the ministry's 47 prefectural labor bureaus to tailor their unemployment measures to the needs of their respective areas.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / THE WRITERS' SPIN
Jan 23, 2002

Consultant wary of 'U.S.-style' info, mutual funds

Hajime Yamazaki must be an enemy of mutual fund companies.

Longform

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How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan