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BUSINESS
Mar 29, 2006

Usen, Livedoor link Web portals

Cable broadcaster Usen Corp. and Internet services firm Livedoor Co. linked their Web portals Tuesday in the first step toward an alliance between the two companies, the firms said.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Mar 28, 2006

Cheese, eBye and reiki

Say cheese AP asks: "Where can I get a wide range of foreign cheeses in Japan? They are so expensive in supermarkets, and often not in good shape."
Japan Times
Features / JAPAN FASHION WEEK FALL/WINTER 06-07
Mar 26, 2006

Rochas re-mixed

Among the new kids on the block at Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo this season, the only one in the menswear department was the Rochas line by Masatomo, whose elegant but unpretentiously tailored pieces are created under an agreement between Tokyo-based Renown Inc. and the venerable Paris-based Rochas.
JAPAN
Mar 25, 2006

New rules to doom used electrical goods shops?

The phones at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry have been ringing off the hook since early February when it suddenly and quietly changed its enforcement of a 2001 law on electrical appliance safety.
JAPAN
Mar 25, 2006

Weather services compete in blossom forecasting

One would think Eishin Murakata has a pleasant, relaxing job. Every spring, he strolls each day to the same cherry tree in central Tokyo and gazes up at its boughs. When he spots a full bud on the verge of blossoming, he carefully snaps a photograph.
BUSINESS
Mar 25, 2006

Livedoor's new chief hopes Horie reduces stake

Livedoor Co. President Kozo Hiramatsu expressed hope Friday that his predecessor, Takafumi Horie, who has been in detention since his Jan. 23 arrest over alleged accounting fraud, will reduce his equity stake in the firm.
BUSINESS
Mar 24, 2006

Trade balance swung back into black in February

Japan posted a customs-cleared trade surplus of 955.7 billion yen for February, swinging back into the black from a 351 billion yen deficit in January, the Finance Ministry said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Mar 24, 2006

Usen chief considering Livedoor integration

Usen Corp. President Yasuhide Uno said Thursday he is ready to consider integrating his firm's management with Livedoor Co., 12.74 percent of whose shares he bought from Fuji Television Network Inc.
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2006

Flat-panel TV boom returns Japan to electronics limelight

Just five years ago, Japanese electronics makers were in a sorry state. Profits were sinking as less expensive Asian rivals grabbed market share and prices for everything from computer chips to DVD players dropped.
BUSINESS
Mar 21, 2006

Convenience store sales fall 2.4%

Sales at convenience stores in Japan dropped 2.4 percent in February from a year earlier on a same-store basis to 483.54 billion yen, declining for the 19th consecutive month, an industry body said Monday.
BUSINESS
Mar 21, 2006

Veal blunder laid to bad communications

The veal shipment that arrived in January containing banned spinal cords was an isolated incident and "does not indicate weakness in the overall U.S. beef processing, inspection or export systems," the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a report released Monday.
BUSINESS
Mar 18, 2006

Insurers asked to clarify policies

The Financial Services Agency called on all 86 insurance firms in the nation Friday to check their sales material on savings-type insurance products after it discovered some firms had not been clearly explaining their policies.
BUSINESS
Mar 18, 2006

Glitch halts Canada beef facility's exports

Ottawa has disqualified a Calgary beef-processing facility from exporting to Japan due to a technicality that was found by Japanese inspectors, government officials said Friday.
BUSINESS
Mar 18, 2006

TSE will keep Nishimuro at the helm

Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. will ask Taizo Nishimuro to stay on as president after its June shareholders' meeting, TSE officials said Friday.
JAPAN
Mar 17, 2006

Oil firms adjust footing amid Iran's nuclear follies

As tension mounts worldwide over the standoff concerning Iran's nuclear ambitions, Japanese oil companies are starting to take precautions as uncertainties surrounding the situation may force them to stop importing oil from the Islamic state.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 17, 2006

Curtain rises on Tokyo International Anime Fair

From popular TV series and unreleased work to cutting-edge production technology, everything the domestic animation industry has to offer will be at the 5th Tokyo International Anime Fair 2006, from March 23 to 26 at the Tokyo Big Sight.
JAPAN
Mar 15, 2006

Horie, four colleagues dealt new charges

Former Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie and four others, as well as the company itself, were charged Tuesday with falsifying the company's financial statements for the business year through September 2004.
BUSINESS
Mar 15, 2006

How will delisting impact Livedoor?

The Tokyo Stock Exchange will delist Livedoor Co. on April 14, depriving the Internet company of the ability to raise capital on the market. How will the move affect Livedoor? Here are some questions and answers that address the firm's possible fate:
BUSINESS
Mar 14, 2006

Indiana FHI plant to roll out Camrys

Toyota and partner Fuji Heavy Industries, the maker of Subaru cars, will produce Camrys at Fuji's U.S. plant in Indiana starting in spring 2007, the Japanese automakers said Monday.
BUSINESS
Mar 14, 2006

Sompo admits to misleading sales tactics in early '90s

Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. said Monday it distributed misleading advertising in the early 1990s, causing some buyers of its savings-type policies to believe they would get higher returns than were available.
Japan Times
LIFE
Mar 12, 2006

Equality still has a long way to go

International Women's Day, commemorated March 8, was a chance to celebrate women's achievements. But it also highlighted the fact that discrimination continues to be a major problem for women around the globe -- and Japanese women, unfortunately, are no exception. In fact, the world's second-largest...
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2006

Murakami irate over auction of manuscripts

Popular novelist Haruki Murakami said in a monthly magazine released Friday that a number of his manuscripts have been put up for auction on the Internet and at secondhand bookshops without his permission.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2006

U.S. firm gets Toshiba DNA chip license

Toshiba Corp. said Friday it has signed a licensing agreement with U.S. firm Antara BioSciences Inc. to transfer its expertise on compact, low-cost DNA chips and DNA diagnostic equipment.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2006

Mitsubishi, Tepco in LNG tieup

Mitsubishi Corp. and Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday they have agreed to jointly procure and market liquefied natural gas tapped in Oman, starting in April.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2006

Aeon seeks to add banking operations to supermarkets by '07

Major supermarket chain Aeon Co. said Friday it will enter the banking business as early as spring 2007, building on its 1,500 stores and 13.7 million Aeon credit card holders in Japan.
JAPAN
Mar 10, 2006

Employees dislike new pay system

Fujitsu Ltd.'s company Web site is being flooded with angry e-mails from unhappy workers, especially young people.
BUSINESS
Mar 9, 2006

Toshiba, Canon put off new TVs

Toshiba Corp. and Canon Inc. said Wednesday their alliance will delay the release of a next-generation television called surface-conduction electron-emitter display TV, or SED, until October to December of 2007. The new TVs were originally to go on sale in early spring of this year.
Israel protests after Kyoto inn seeks war crime declaration from tourist
A street in Kyoto in March 2023. An Israeli tourist was asked to sign a document stating that he had not committed war crimes when he checked in at a Kyoto guesthouse in April, prompting a response from Israel's ambassador.
Nearly half of workers in Japan engage in ‘quiet quitting’
"Quiet quitting" is most common among the younger generation, with 46.7% of respondents to a survey in their 20s identifying with the practice, reflecting a less-motivated workforce more focused on work-life balance.
Signs of change emerge in constitutional interpretation of same-sex marriage
Plaintiffs celebrate the Tokyo High Court's ruling in a same-sex marriage lawsuit in Tokyo on Oct. 30.
Britain responds after Expo 2025 afternoon tea brews outrage
The café space at the Osaka Expo's British pavilion
Truck driver's body recovered from huge Japan sinkhole after three months
Workers stand around a vehicle carrying the body of a person recovered from a sinkhole in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, on Friday.
'Ukiyo-e in Play' showcases traditional art carved anew
The Adachi Institute has been working on creating brand new ukiyo-e prints in collaboration with contemporary artists such as Yayoi Kusama, whose “Mt. Fuji in Seven Colours: When life boundlessly flares up to the universe” (2014) can be seen on display at “Ukiyo-e in Play.”
Want to see the future at Expo Osaka? Get in line.
“‘Future of life,’ by Ishiguro,” the World Expo pavilion by roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, displays humanlike androids.
Ishiba hears advice from across the aisle on how Japan should handle Trump
Prime Minister Shigaru Ishiba and CDP head Yoshihiko Noda at a parliamentary session in Tokyo on April 23.
Don't send in the clones: AI event nixed as Alt accounts get reality check
A screenshot from the website for Alt's AI conference, which was canceled after the company disclosed an investigation into its sales figures.
CDP submits bill proposal on separate surnames, but challenges remain
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers speak to reporters in parliament on Wednesday after submitting a bill in the Lower House to allow married couples to retain different surnames.

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