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BUSINESS
Nov 30, 2002

Ministry to prop up sinking Kansai airport

To save debt-ridden Kansai International Airport Co., the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry has drawn up a bailout plan to provide the semipublic airport operator with about 9 billion yen in subsidies a year and offer government guarantees on short-term bonds to be issued by the company.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 29, 2002

Resigning Nippon Shinpan chief to become adviser

Despite resigning Thursday as president of Nippon Shinpan Co. over a scandal involving payoffs to racketeers, Yoji Yamada will stay on as an adviser at the nation's largest consumer credit card firm.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2002

Hachiyo chief held over fraud

Police on Wednesday arrested Osamu Tadokoro, former honorary chairman of health food firm Zenkoku Hachiyo Butsuryu (Hachiyo), and 13 of its former employees for allegedly defrauding investors out of some 70 million yen by promising them their money would grow within a certain period.
BUSINESS
Nov 26, 2002

Isuzu posts 84 billion yen loss for first half

Ailing automaker Isuzu Motors Ltd. said Monday it posted a group net loss of 84.23 billion yen for the fiscal first half to Sept. 30, more than tripling its loss of 23.56 billion yen in the same period a year earlier, due to weak auto sales and hefty restructuring charges.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2002

Angolans starve as oil revenue vanishes

NEW YORK -- It is a sad paradox that one of the potentially richest developing countries in the world is going through one of its worst crises in history. It is a humanitarian crisis that is, to a large extent, the result of that country's corrupt leadership. While the threat of starvation rages throughout...
Japan Times
LIFE / Language
Nov 22, 2002

A taste of theater with a twist

There's about to be a hanging at Tokyo's Hibiya High School -- and the auditorium is packed with students who've come to see it.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Nov 22, 2002

Finding a place and food for Thanksgiving

Finding a place Andrew in Kanagawa-ken wants to know how to help his daughter's French boyfriend get accommodation.
BUSINESS
Nov 22, 2002

Wowow maneuvers into the black

Satellite broadcaster Wowow Inc. said Thursday it swung back into the black in the fiscal first half to Sept. 30 due largely to cost cuts.
BUSINESS / ON MANAGEMENT
Nov 19, 2002

Seagram's fall from grace is testimony to virtue of stockpiling crown jewels

When Shakespeare wrote, "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" he was talking about royalty, but I'm sure the travails of today's business elite would have attracted his attention. The recent demise of the House of Seagram, for instance, might be worthy of a play -- the tale of how a third-generation...
BUSINESS
Nov 18, 2002

British law firm capitalizes on thirst for global tools, investment advice

Despite Japan's much-publicized economic problems, independent financial advisers Towry Law are "very pleased" with the performance of their Japan operations, according to John Simmonds, managing director of the Britain-based company.
BUSINESS
Nov 16, 2002

Osaka Gas net profit tumbles

Osaka Gas Co. said Friday its group net profit tumbled 20 percent from a year earlier in the April-September first half of fiscal 2002, following its gas rate cut in March.
BUSINESS
Nov 15, 2002

Three major steelmakers approve alliance

Nippon Steel Corp., Kobe Steel Ltd. and Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd. announced Thursday they have agreed to form a capital alliance, paving the way for wholesale consolidation of the industry.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2002

Analysts skeptical over 'industrial revival body'

It might work. But probably not.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 13, 2002

Corporate whistle-blowers still left out in the cold

Prompted by a recent spate of corporate misdeeds, moves are afoot, albeit slowly, to provide legal protection for whistle-blowers.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 13, 2002

'Ringu' remake raises hopes in Japan

The U.S. remake of "Ringu," a Japanese horror film released in January 1998, has been scaring audiences across North America.
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2002

J-Phone success boosts Japan Telecom balance

Japan Telecom Holdings Co., the owner of Japan's third-largest telecom carrier, said Tuesday its group net balance for the fiscal first half to Sept. 30 swung back into the black due mainly to cost-cutting and growth in its J-Phone mobile phone services.
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2002

Firms link in communication venture

Procket Networks Inc., a U.S. company specializing in the development of high-speed information communication systems, announced Tuesday that it has established a joint venture in Tokyo with three Japanese network companies.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2002

Suzuki enters plea of not guilty in court

House of Representatives member Muneo Suzuki pleaded not guilty Monday to bribery, perjury and falsifying political funds reports.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 12, 2002

Mitsubishi reveals to media multiplatform Colt compact

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. unveiled Monday the new Colt compact as its first model using a platform jointly developed with German-American auto giant DaimlerChrysler AG.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / JAZZNICITY
Nov 10, 2002

Balladeer does it in his own good time

If there are no second acts in American lives, as F. Scott Fitzgerald said, for some musicians at least, there's a second take. After famed recording sessions in the late 1950s that made him popular, Jimmy Scott's unique vocal style was not heard again on a new recording for some 30 years. Then, in the...
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2002

Medical staff grilled over incorrect data

Tokyo Metropolitan Government health officials questioned staff at a hospital and a clinical testing company Friday over incorrect medical data given to more than 10,000 patients over a six-month period beginning April.
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2002

Popularity of Gundam boosts Bandai profit

Japan's largest toy maker, Bandai Co., said Thursday that its group net profit for the first half of the 2002 business year jumped 27.1 percent to 7.07 billion yen from the same period last year, thanks to the popularity of its TV program characters.
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2002

Shiseido turns net profit of 9.87 billion yen

Shiseido Co., Japan's biggest cosmetics maker, said Wednesday it swung back into the black in the first half of fiscal 2002 due mainly to cost-cutting efforts and a reduction in inventories in its cosmetic and toiletries business.
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2002

Court approves Air Do rehab plan

The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday approved a rehabilitation plan for failed Air Do, now in the process of court-mandated restructuring under the civil rehabilitation law.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 24, 2002

'Tax evaders' steal the talk of Shanghai

SEOUL -- A little over a month ago I was on the way to Shanghai to spend a month teaching at Fudan University. I read an article in a Hong Kong newspaper that said the topic on everyone's lips in China was the upcoming 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. This is the congress at which...

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