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BUSINESS
Feb 7, 2001

Toshiba revises downward its earnings forecast for fiscal 2000

Toshiba Corp. on Tuesday revised its overall earnings projections for fiscal 2000 downward, mainly due to declining prices of personal computers in the United States, company officials said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2001

Japanese-Chinese translation software goes mobile

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Monday it has developed bidirectional speech translation technology for Japanese and Chinese that can be used in compact mobile devices such as cellular phones.
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2001

Kirin to release data twice yearly

Kirin Brewery Co. will announce shipments of beer and "happoshu" low-malt beer-like beverages twice a year instead of each month as at present, starting with January data due for release later this week, company officials said Monday.
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2001

Kirin to release data twice yearly

Kirin Brewery Co. will announce shipments of beer and "happoshu" low-malt beer-like beverages twice a year instead of each month as at present, starting with January data due for release later this week, company officials said Monday.
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2001

Nikko plans to unload 50% of trust unit

Nikko Securities Co. is contemplating selling a 50 percent equity stake in its wholly owned trust banking subsidiary, Nikko Trust & Banking Corp., to Mitsubishi Trust & Banking Corp., company officials said Monday.
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2001

Nikko plans to unload 50% of trust unit

Nikko Securities Co. is contemplating selling a 50 percent equity stake in its wholly owned trust banking subsidiary, Nikko Trust & Banking Corp., to Mitsubishi Trust & Banking Corp., company officials said Monday.
CULTURE / Stage
Feb 3, 2001

Suzuki's view of the stars

Of the many categories of dance in Japan, from traditional ballet to so-called neo-butoh and beyond into the unmapped territories of performance installation, Minoru Suzuki is the only ballet choreographer with the potential to be a contender internationally. To celebrate 35 years in the business, Star...
BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2001

Mazda opens online auto shop to market built-to-order cars

Mazda Motor Corp. today will open an Internet site that will allow Japanese customers to custom-build their own cars.
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2001

Colleges brace as fewer apply

Tadataka Koide, president of Aichi Gakuin University in Nagoya, is awaiting this month's entrance exams with anticipation and anxiety.
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2001

Clothing firm called for tax evasion

Tax authorities have filed a criminal complaint against Tokyo-based apparel maker/wholesaler Cocue Co. on suspicion of hiding about 280 million yen in taxable income and evading some 90 million yen in corporate taxes.
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2001

Clothing firm called for tax evasion

Tax authorities have filed a criminal complaint against Tokyo-based apparel maker/wholesaler Cocue Co. on suspicion of hiding about 280 million yen in taxable income and evading some 90 million yen in corporate taxes.
JAPAN
Jan 31, 2001

Popular Chinese chef suspected of tax evasion

A Yokohama restaurant chain owned by popular Chinese cuisine chef Zhou Fuhui, known in Japan as Tomiteru Shu, allegedly evaded around 50 million yen in taxes in the three years through June 1999.
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Jan 31, 2001

Castles in the sky

Here's a folk tale for the digital era.
BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2001

Ajinomoto to dissolve investment unit in Singapore

Ajinomoto Co. said Monday it will dissolve A.I.F. Investment Pte. Ltd., its wholly owned Singaporean subsidiary, on Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jan 27, 2001

Uniqlo fears future with import curb

The president of Fast Retailing Co., which operates the Uniqlo clothing store chain, said Friday that the limiting of inexpensive clothing imports from China would weaken the company in the long term.
BUSINESS
Jan 26, 2001

NTT to test broadband in Shibuya

NTT East Corp. will begin in March a six-month experiment using wireless broadband services, which operate at a speed of up to 36 megabytes per second, in and around Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, the company announced Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jan 26, 2001

Cisco to buy 1.65% of Softbank

Softbank Corp. said Thursday that it and Cisco Systems Inc. of the United States have agreed to strengthen their partnership through capital cooperation and launch an investment fund for Internet infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region.
BUSINESS
Jan 25, 2001

JAL offers anniversary discounts

Japan Airlines Co. announced Wednesday a discount campaign between May 10 and May 14 that will allow customers to fly anywhere in Japan for 5,000 yen -- an average discount of 81 percent.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2001

AOL Japan renamed DoCoMo AOL

Internet service provider AOL Japan Inc. said Tuesday that it will change its name to DoCoMo AOL Inc., effective Feb. 1.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2001

Softbank to be lead buyer of Taisho Life

Midsize life insurer Yamato Mutual Life Insurance Co. and a group led by Softbank Corp. plan to take over the failed Taisho Life Insurance Co., sources said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2001

Prudential to pay 23 billion yen for Orico Life

Prudential Corporation Holdings Ltd. will purchase a full stake in Orico Life Insurance Co. for 23 billion yen on Feb. 13 from its parent company Orient Corp., Prudential and Orient said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2001

Suzuki may sell to Nissan

Suzuki Motor Corp. said Tuesday it is considering providing Nissan Motor Co. with Suzuki minivehicles.
BUSINESS
Jan 20, 2001

Four polyethylene firms plan to merge operations

Mitsubishi Chemical Corp., Showa Denko K.K., Tonen Chemical Corp. and Nippon Petrochemicals Co. plan to merge their polyethylene business, company sources said Friday.
BUSINESS
Jan 19, 2001

DoCoMo announces moves in Europe

Cellular giant NTT DoCoMo announced Thursday two separate deals to expand its presence in Europe, agreeing with local carriers to launch Internet services similar to DoCoMo's i-mode on smart cellular phones in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Italy.

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