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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Aug 13, 2009

Fish master Tatsuo Ichikawa

Tatsuo Ichikawa, 69, is an English-speaking volunteer tour guide and an expert on all things fishy in Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish market. He's not only a serious history buff, but also an osakana meister (fish master), whose mission is to educate the public on the health benefits of eating his favorite food....
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Aug 13, 2009

Fish master Tatsuo Ichikawa

Tatsuo Ichikawa, 69, is an English-speaking volunteer tour guide and an expert on all things fishy in Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish market. He's not only a serious history buff, but also an osakana meister (fish master), whose mission is to educate the public on the health benefits of eating his favorite food....
BUSINESS
Aug 13, 2009

JAL told to share more runs

Japan Airlines Corp., Asia's most indebted carrier, should expand code-sharing agreements with other airlines to boost passenger traffic without the cost of operating new routes, the civil aviation chief said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 11, 2009

Machinery orders rebounded in June

Machinery orders rose for the first time in four months in June and the current-account surplus widened for the latest signs the recession is easing.
BUSINESS
Aug 8, 2009

Toyota to drop obsession with global market share

Toyota under its new president will no longer chase global market share and other numerical targets, even as it hopes to sell more cars in emerging markets, a company executive said Friday.
BUSINESS
Aug 7, 2009

BOJ said to see deflation stretching through 2011

The Bank of Japan will probably forecast that declines in consumer prices will extend into 2011 even as the economy recovers, sources said.
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2009

Uncertainty remains over NUMMI plant's fate

Despite Toyota Motor Corp.'s improved earnings forecast announced Tuesday for the current business year, the automaker still needs to overcome a major hurdle — the planned shutdown of a plant in California, the second largest in the U.S.
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2009

Yamaha quadruples loss forecast

Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd. quadrupled its forecast Tuesday to a full-year loss of ¥182 billion as the recession cuts sales in North America and Europe.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 4, 2009

BeeTV shows coming to cell phone near you

BeeTV, a broadcast service for cell phones, is grabbing the spotlight in the mobile phone industry with aggressive promotions and original content featuring popular TV stars.
COMMENTARY
Aug 4, 2009

Drawing down the nuclear stock

Conflicts of interest dividing Moscow and Washington have overshadowed a more positive development — real progress in nuclear arms cuts between the two powers that together hold 95 percent of the world's nuclear weapons.
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2009

June sees record fall in wages

Wages fell at their fastest pace on record in June as companies cut bonuses to protect dwindling profits, adding to evidence that consumers are unlikely to contribute to an economic recovery.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Aug 2, 2009

When does popular become canonical?

Some scholars would seem to think that methodologies (systems of methods used to focus on particular areas of study) never alter. Other scholars know that the methods change as the area under study enlarges and that ways of looking at the subject are always being transformed by the subject itself.
EDITORIALS
Aug 1, 2009

Court upholds crucial right

The Tokyo District Court on Tuesday ordered Prince Hotels Inc. and its 12 executives to pay some ¥290 million in compensation to Japan Teachers' Union (Nikkyoso) and 1,889 teachers for canceling a contract to let the union use rooms for an annual study meeting.
BUSINESS
Aug 1, 2009

Mizuho books fourth consecutive quarterly loss

Mizuho Financial Group Inc., the nation's third-biggest bank by market value, booked an unexpected fourth straight quarterly loss on bad-loan and credit costs.
BUSINESS
Jul 31, 2009

Wii sales drop hurts Nintendo profit

Nintendo Co. reported Thursday a 61 percent drop in profit as sales of its flagship Wii consoles fell for the first time since the product debuted in 2006.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 31, 2009

TCI learned the hard way via J-Power play

It was a crisp day in November 2005 when hedge fund manager John Ho entered Electric Power Development Co.'s headquarters in Tokyo, betting Japan's corporate attitudes were ripe for change.

Longform

Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan