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JAPAN
Oct 17, 2008

'Anime' biz taps new inspiration

Astro Boy, created by animation pioneer Osamu Tezuka, is a superhero robot with a soft, adorable face, a feature that partly explains his global fame.
BUSINESS
Oct 8, 2008

Economic recovery veering off, BOJ says

Bank of Japan Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa said economic recovery will probably take longer than has been expected because "downside risks" to growth are increasing.
BUSINESS
Oct 7, 2008

Utsumi pans rate cuts, dollar props

Makoto Utsumi, a former top currency official at the Finance Ministry, said he doesn't see the need for joint interest-rate cuts and coordinated intervention to support the dollar by the United States, Europe and Japan.
EDITORIALS
Oct 5, 2008

U.S. bailout is a start

The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed a revised bill to rescue ailing financial institutions following the Senate's approval Thursday. (The House had defeated the original bill Monday.) U.S. President George W. Bush quickly signed the bill into law. It allows the U.S. government to spend...
Reader Mail
Oct 5, 2008

Japan Inc. meeting challenges

I have to disagree with some of Gregory Clark's comments at the end of his Sept. 21 article, "The Japanese knack for choking in a slump," as they seem out of touch with the Japanese business community that I see.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2008

Experts back idea of public bailout in U.S.

Painful as it may be, acting swiftly to tackle the U.S. financial crisis with a public bailout is the right move — and perhaps the chief lesson from Japan's bad debt debacle of the 1990s, economists and politicians here say.
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2008

MUFG buys into Aberdeen Asset

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. will take a 9.9 percent stake in Aberdeen Asset Management PLC, Scotland's largest independent money manager, and distribute the company's products in Japan.
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2008

No Toshiba-SanDisk bid

Toshiba Corp. Chief Executive Officer Atsutoshi Nishida said Thursday his company doesn't plan to make an offer for SanDisk Corp. that would challenge Samsung Electronics Co.'s unsolicited bid for the U.S. company.
BUSINESS
Oct 2, 2008

Industry's mood at five-year low

The business confidence of big manufacturers dipped below zero for the first time in more than five years in the latest Bank of Japan "tankan" survey released Wednesday.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Oct 1, 2008

Helping a healthy river flow

My eldest daughter, Miwako, gave birth to twin girls in March of this year, raising the number of my grandchildren to five. So, when my busy schedule finally permitted, I recently nipped over to Vancouver to see them all and to help out Miwako and her partner, Don McCubbing, by being houseboy and chief...

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