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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Oct 1, 2000

Elizabeth Handover

Elizabeth Handover explains that when in 1989 she was instrumental in helping establish the Tokyo Actors Repertory Company, she was undertaking a commitment. That was to promote women's theater, and to work toward bicultural understanding. With clear guiding principles, the company makes its presentations...
BUSINESS
Sep 30, 2000

NTV and others consider tying up in digital satellites

Nippon Television Network Corp. and three other concerns are considering jointly entering communications satellite digital broadcasting services due to start next year, company officials said Friday.
BUSINESS
Sep 28, 2000

Chemical firms Mitsui, Takeda tie up

Mitsui Chemicals Inc. and Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd. said Wednesday that they have agreed to set up a joint venture by integrating their urethane chemicals and urethane composite materials businesses.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2000

Mitsubishi Rayon creates cheap DNA chip method

Mitsubishi Rayon Co. said Tuesday it has developed a low-cost technique to manufacture DNA chips used for genetic screening of patients to detect their chances of developing gene-related diseases.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2000

Textile trader Fujii requests rehabilitation

OSAKA -- Fujii & Co., an Osaka-based textile trader, said Monday it has applied for court-led rehabilitation with total liabilities estimated at 10.8 billion yen as of the end of August.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2000

Bridgestone offers free tire checks

Bridgestone Corp. said Monday that it will offer free inspections of nine types of imported Firestone tires produced in Decatur, Ill., since 1992.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Sep 24, 2000

Janet Thompson

Janet Thompson says that Tokyo International Players has such a sparkling reputation that people, not only those directly associated with TIP, always love to help. "It's wonderful," she said. "We needed secondhand furniture for 'Lend Me a Tenor,' and the company Kensington in Shirogane willingly supplied...
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2000

High level of carcinogen found at old Nissan plant

A concentration of trichloroethylene 1,600 times above the national environmental standard has been detected at the site of a former Nissan Motors Co. plant in Tokyo's Suginami Ward, company officials said Friday.
BUSINESS
Sep 23, 2000

Toyota ups forecast after sales kick

Toyota Motor Corp. revised its unconsolidated earnings projections for the first half of fiscal 2000 upward due to brisk sales of its vehicles in domestic and overseas markets, company officials said Friday.
BUSINESS
Sep 21, 2000

Korean firms unite on software for translation

A Tokyo-based computer software joint venture set up by a pro-Pyongyang firm and a South Korean company will team up with a North Korean government agency to develop software capable of the simultaneous interpretation of mobile phone conversations between Japanese and Korean speakers, company officials...
BUSINESS
Sep 19, 2000

Sky Perfect to issue 400,000 new shares

Sky Perfect Communications Inc., operator of communication satellite broadcaster Sky PerfecTV, said Monday it will issue 400,000 new shares by public offering in a bid to raise some 105.1 billion yen to boost its business.
BUSINESS
Sep 19, 2000

Isuzu, GM start commercial sales venture in U.S.

Isuzu Motors Ltd. announced Monday that it has formed a commercial vehicle sales company in the United States with General Motors Corp.
BUSINESS
Sep 16, 2000

Young people play key role in IT ventures

Young people are increasingly playing a key role in Internet-related ventures amid the information-technology revolution in Japan.
CULTURE / Stage
Sep 16, 2000

A gentler, softer Dairakudakan

It is tempting to look at the new Dairakudakan production, "Kanzen-naru Hitobito (Complete People)," as being in some way connected to the title. Searching for meaning in butoh performances has always been a mad sport, though, and the premiere by the largest butoh company extant, at Tokyo's Art Sphere...
BUSINESS
Sep 8, 2000

FRC approves banks' plan to set up Mizuho Holdings

The Financial Reconstruction Commission approved a plan Thursday by Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan to set up a holding company as well as a plan by a Sakura Bank-led consortium to form an Internet bank.
BUSINESS
Sep 7, 2000

Net data center outsourcing could ease growth headaches

Fast-growing Internet companies have to frequently upgrade and expand computer servers and related facilities to remain competitive.
BUSINESS
Sep 7, 2000

Pacific Century takes 55% stake in Jaleco

Pacific Century CyberWorks, a major Hong Kong Internet company, said Wednesday it acquired a controlling stake of 55 percent in Japanese game-software developer Jaleco after the firm issued new shares via third-party allocation.
COMMENTARY
Sep 6, 2000

A haphazard path to recovery

LONDON -- Reports from Tokyo suggest that Japanese government and business leaders have not properly thought through economic policies designed to ensure recovery. Each problem seems to be treated in isolation, and decisions appear to be taken on the basis of what is most likely to satisfy the various...
JAPAN
Sep 5, 2000

Mitsui Marine named in fraud claim

The president of a Tokyo construction firm has filed a criminal complaint against an employee of Mitsui Marine & Fire Insurance Co. and one of the insurer's former agents on suspicion of fraud, sources close to the case told Kyodo News on Monday.
BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2000

Sky Perfect wins rights to air 2002 World Cup

Sky Perfect Communications Inc. said Monday that it has won exclusive satellite broadcasting rights in Japan for the 2002 World Cup soccer championship.
BUSINESS
Sep 4, 2000

Police raid Mitsubishi a second time

Police raided the headquarters of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. again Sunday and searched the president's office for evidence of a coverup involving customer complaints.
BUSINESS
Sep 2, 2000

Kumagai seeks waiver of 450 billion yen in debts

The debt-ridden construction company Kumagai Gumi Co. will ask its five major creditors, including Sumitomo Bank and Shinsei Bank, to forgive debts totaling 450 billion yen as part of the firm's rehabilitation plan, company sources said Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2000

Investment execs held for bilking elderly

OSAKA -- Police arrested the president of an investment-advice company and five of its employees Friday on suspicion of swindling 323 mainly elderly people out of 1.3 billion yen in cash and stocks.
BUSINESS
Sep 2, 2000

Daimler to dispatch MMC's next chief

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will ask DaimlerChrysler AG to dispatch a top manager to replace its president, Katsuhiko Kawasoe, who is resigning over a scandal involving coverups of customer complaints over defective vehicles, industry sources said Friday.
BUSINESS
Aug 31, 2000

Nissan releases first model under restructuring plan

Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn leans against the automaker's new Bluebird Sylphy sedan at the car's press preview Wednesday in Tokyo. Nissan Motor Co. launched its new Bluebird Sylphy compact sedan Wednesday as the first of a series of models the struggling automaker plans to introduce during...
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2000

Daiwa House, Daiwa Danchi to merge

OSAKA-- Daiwa House Industry Co. said Monday it will merge with Daiwa Danchi Co. on April 1 to reinforce sales operations.
BUSINESS
Aug 24, 2000

MMC to be reprimanded for concealing vehicle defects

The Transport Ministry plans to issue orders to Mitsubishi Motors Corp. next month demanding that the firm make its operational procedures concerning vehicle recalls more transparent after it was revealed that defects had been concealed for decades, ministry officials said Wednesday.

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