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JAPAN
May 20, 2000

Nissan falls from 'ni' to 'san'

Nissan Motor Co. fell to third place among Japanese automakers in terms of group sales in fiscal 1999, behind No. 1 Toyota and No. 2 Honda, according to Nissan's earnings report released Friday.
BUSINESS
May 20, 2000

Fast Internet server delays launch

SpeedNet Inc., which surprised the nation's telecom industry last year by trumpeting a much cheaper and faster wireless Internet service than other companies' offerings, announced Friday that it will postpone the service's launch, originally scheduled for this summer.
BUSINESS
May 16, 2000

Special losses at DDI, IDO weigh down bottom line

Telecommunications firms DDI Corp. and IDO Corp., which plan to merge with international call operator KDD Corp. in the fall, released their 1999 earnings reports Monday showing lower pretax profits despite higher sales.
JAPAN
May 12, 2000

Tokyo Sowa execs held for fixing books

Police on Thursday arrested six former executives of the failed Tokyo Sowa Bank on suspicion they conspired to falsify accounts to hide the company's capital inadequacy.
JAPAN
May 9, 2000

NTT to buy U.S. Net firm

NTT Communications Corp. announced Monday that it will acquire Verio Inc. of the United States, a major Internet service provider, in order to become a "full-service player" in Asia, Europe and the U.S.
BUSINESS
May 4, 2000

B2B firm opens for business

WizOffice.com Japan, a business-to-business e-commerce company providing a wide range of services via the Internet, officially opened for business in Japan in May. The firm aims to be a one-stop solution provider enabling small and medium-size companies to streamline and outsource their back-office functions...
BUSINESS
May 2, 2000

Venture to guarantee e-payments

Itochu Corp., Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and others will establish a joint venture in June to provide payment guarantees for e-commerce transactions concluded between corporate clients, Itochu said Monday.
JAPAN
May 2, 2000

Labor chief a no-show at May Day fete

An estimated 1.7 million people took part in May Day rallies at some 1,070 locations nationwide Monday, calling on the government to alleviate the worsening employment situation and protect workers' rights, but the labor minister was conspicuously absent from the festivities.
CULTURE / Stage
Apr 28, 2000

A powerful show of grace fit for royalty

History was made in the world of ballet in Japan with the gala performance of the two Nederlands Dans Theater companies at Saitama Arts Theater April 23. For the first time ever, the young and veteran companies, NDT II and NDT III, performed together, in this case to commemorate the 400 years of bilateral...
COMMUNITY
Apr 13, 2000

Home is where the condo is

Mari Ishiyama, a 38-year-old secretary at a foreign bank, had been looking for an apartment for several years, but always struck out when it came to the final lottery (a standard real-estate practice to decide who can purchase a unit in a building when there are too many prospective buyers). "My friends...
COMMUNITY / How-tos / GETTING THINGS DONE
Apr 12, 2000

Sweeter dreams

I wrote recently of the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, and the instant Westernization it prompted. The government encouraged efforts to make foreigners feel at home. One was directed toward ryokan and many of them installed Western-style toilets and created a few rooms with Western beds. The beds were rarely...
CULTURE / Books
Apr 12, 2000

Fingleton deflates the New Economy

IN PRAISE OF HARD INDUSTRIES: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Technology, Is the Key to Future Prosperity, by Eamonn Fingleton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999, 273 pp., $26 (cloth). A 24-year-old Englishman with a ponytail waltzed into the offices of a London venture-capital company...
COMMUNITY
Apr 2, 2000

Activist monthly comes to Japan

When Caitlin Stronell first came to Japan in 1984 to spend a year in Tochigi Prefecture, her father gave her a subscription to the U.K. cooperatively produced monthly magazine New Internationalist. "He thought it'd keep me in touch with social and political activism in the rest of the world, while giving...
BUSINESS
Mar 29, 2000

Companies link to sell steel over Net

Nissho Iwai Corp. said Tuesday it will join two other Japanese trading houses in forming a joint venture to run an electronic marketplace for steel products on the Internet.
JAPAN
Mar 25, 2000

Former Iran diplomat accused in arms case

Police sent papers to prosecutors accusing a former Iranian ambassador to Japan and a former embassy staff member of being directly involved in illegal weapons exports to Iran, Metropolitan Police Department officials said.
EDITORIALS
Mar 22, 2000

When bankrupt is better

Rarely does good news come so poorly packaged. Thailand's biggest corporate debtor, Thai Petrochemical Industry, was declared insolvent last week by a Thai bankruptcy court. Oddly enough, that is a welcome development. The decision allows creditors to take over the company, restructure it and get back...
JAPAN
Mar 21, 2000

Broken tunnel drainage pumps halt bullet trains

OSAKA -- Three bullet trains on the Sanyo Shinkansen Line were delayed for up to 10 minutes Monday after drainage pumps in an undersea tunnel on the line in Kitakyushu were found to have temporarily malfunctioned, West Japan Railway Co. said.
BUSINESS
Mar 18, 2000

Oil firms to integrate operations to trim costs

Japan Energy Corp. and Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. said Friday they have reached a basic agreement to integrate their oil refining and distribution operations.
BUSINESS
Mar 17, 2000

Palm ready to double-fist Japan's market for hand-helds

Hand-held computer giant Palm Inc. has landed in Japan, setting up a subsidiary and releasing two new models with a fully localized operating system, company officials announced Thursday in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Mar 17, 2000

NTT, gas firms eye power retail business

Tokyo Gas Co., Osaka Gas Co. and a power facility under Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. may jointly enter the electric power retailing business, industry sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Mar 16, 2000

SESC calls for brokerage to be punished for fraud

The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission recommended Wednesday that financial regulators punish Minami Securities Co. for fraudulently selling corporate bonds, commission officials said.
JAPAN
Mar 16, 2000

Lawyer held for hiding client

An Osaka lawyer was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of hiding a man accused of helping real estate developer Heo Young Joong, 53, evade police after the start of his trial on charges of conspiring to cause damage to defunct trading house Itoman Corp.
CULTURE / Music
Mar 14, 2000

Celtic music takes a sure-footed stand in Tokyo

For anyone interested in "world music," gigs in Japan have been comparatively thin on the ground during the last five years or so, compared to the first years of the '90s. This is a situation that is perhaps set to change.
COMMUNITY
Mar 12, 2000

Retailer joins big boys with Little Me for kids

If there was one thing Ron Kessler was sure of growing up in Chicago, he was not the corporate type. Yet surrounded by uncles in business, he really liked the idea of being an entrepreneur, working for himself. The irony, he said, is that "success forces you to become a manager. Starting up something...
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2000

Toshiba-EMI considers merging with Time Warner

Toshiba Corp. is considering merging its music software company with that of U.S. media and entertainment giant Time Warner Inc. in a deal that would create Japan's biggest music software firm, a Toshiba official said Friday.
Millions told to evacuate as heavy rain sparks flooding and landslides in Kyushu
Heavy rain falls in the city of Kumamoto on Monday morning.
Osaka Expo highlights the challenge of holding events in Japan's scorching summer
People huddle near a large fan blowing icy-cold mist at the Osaka Expo on July 12. Amid Japan's relentless summer heat, organizes have put myriad measures in place in order to keep guests safe.
Chinese vessels collide while pursuing Philippine boat in South China Sea
This handout video grab released and taken on August 11, 2025 by the Philippine Coast Guard shows an incident between a Chinese Navy vessel (left) and a Chinese Coast Guard ship as seen from a Philippine fisheries boat near Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea.
Weather agency warns of landslides and flooding in Kyushu as heavy rain continues
An embankment on the Amikake River that collapsed due to heavy rain in Aira, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Friday. Downpours continued in the Kyushu region over the weekend.
Tokyo’s WWII museums hold diverse views on war and peace
A carrier-based Type 52 Zero fighter marks the entrance foyer of Yasukuni Shrine's Yushukan, a museum that tells a more nuanced story of Japan's experience in World War II than the controversies around the shrine might suggest.
Osaka Expo highlights the challenge of holding events in Japan's scorching summer
People huddle near a large fan blowing icy-cold mist at the Osaka Expo on July 12. Amid Japan's relentless summer heat, organizes have put myriad measures in place in order to keep guests safe.
At Himawari Shokudo 2, Italian food with a Japanese soul
At Himawari Shokudo 2, chef Hozumi Tanaka serves Italian-inspired fare with a focus on Toyama produce, such as this appetizer of lightly blanched "hotaru ika" (firefly squid) served atop mixed wild plants and a crepe prepared from "yamato-imo" yam.
Cheer with caution: Expert advises sports fans have game plan for extreme heat
A Cardinals fan fans himself during the seventh inning of a game against the Pirates in St. Louis, Missouri, in June 2022.
Australia's warship selection signals Japanese defense industry's arrival
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami-class frigate. Australia's selection of an upgraded version of the Mogami-class warship for its next frigate class could prove to be a watershed moment for Japan’s defense industry.
Japan's inheritance tax is high, unforgiving and sometimes avoidable
The National Tax Agency at the Ministry of Finance, Kasumigaseki, Tokyo. Japanese tax authorities can bill foreign residents in Japan for assets inherited globally.

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