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SOCCER / World cup
Dec 21, 2008

Blatter lauds England 2018 World Cup bid

FIFA president Sepp Blatter praised England as a strong candidate to host the 2018 World Cup, adding he expects a competitive bidding process.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Dec 16, 2008

Ichiro, Dice-K headline Japan WBC candidates

Major League Baseball stars Ichiro Suzuki and Daisuke Matsuzaka headline a host of players revealed as the primary candidates to play for Japan in the 2009 World Baseball Classic, it was announced on Monday.
BUSINESS
Dec 6, 2008

Nipponkoa, Zurich in talks to tie up for Japan corporate insurance

Nipponkoa Insurance Co., Japan's fourth-largest casualty insurer, said Friday it began discussions with Zurich Insurance Co. on a possible alliance to boost domestic earnings.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 16, 2008

Sticky details of Obama's clean-energy plan

SINGAPORE — U.S. President-elect Barack Obama is coming to power on a torrent of promises and high expectations. Yet as recession bites deeper into the world's biggest economy, investment slumps, jobs are lost, tax revenues fall, and the U.S. budget deficit grows ever larger. It is expected to more...
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2008

Aso's ¥2 trillion plan will have no effect: Ota

Prime Minister Taro Aso's ¥2 trillion plan to aid households won't be enough to help the economy, according to former economy minister Hiroko Ota.
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2008

Profitable battery, solar cell biz key behind acquisition of Sanyo

What does Panasonic Corp., already one of the most powerful and profitable electronics companies in the world, want with Sanyo Electric Co., a company just one-fourth its size in terms of revenues?
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / ON THE ROAD
Nov 2, 2008

EVs lead the charge on Paris stage

Gather a bunch of Japanese car journalists or engineers together for a chat on the current state of the industry and you will hear heated debate about design, downsizing, performance, safety and maybe even fuel economy. But for some strange reason, few seem to talk about carbon dioxide (CO2). You know,...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 29, 2008

Obama, McCain all but ignore poverty issue

PRINCETON — Barack Obama worked for three years as a community organizer on Chicago's blighted South Side, so he knows all about the real poverty that exists in America. He knows that in one of the world's richest nations, 37 million people live in poverty, a far higher proportion than in Europe's...
BUSINESS / Q&A
Oct 25, 2008

Lowdown on bank-aid bill

The credit crunch brought about by the collapse of the U.S. housing market is spreading throughout the world and has begun choking off funding to small and midsize Japanese companies.

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