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JAPAN
Jan 27, 2006

Government moves to plug latest Horie loophole

Financial Services Minister Kaoru Yosano said Thursday the government will submit a bill to the Diet to establish a registration system for investment unions to prevent organizations with murky backgrounds from conducting questionable stock transactions.
JAPAN
Jan 27, 2006

China again top Japan trade partner

Japan's trade with China totaled 24.949 trillion yen in 2005, making it the country's biggest trading partner for the second year running despite souring bilateral relations, according to Finance Ministry data released Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jan 27, 2006

UFJ Nicos merges with DC Card

UFJ Nicos Co. and DC Card Co. said Thursday they will merge on April 1, 2007, into Japan's second-largest credit card firm with a combined 32 million members.
BUSINESS
Jan 27, 2006

Individual investors frazzled in wake of 'Livedoor shock'

Yoshikazu Tsugiyama is devastated that his Livedoor shares have nosedived.
BUSINESS
Jan 26, 2006

Itochu to invest in Seibu Holdings

Itochu Corp. will invest about 2 billion yen for a 0.64 percent stake in a planned holding company for the Seibu Railway group, Itochu officials said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jan 25, 2006

Horie involved in buyouts, execs now say

Livedoor Co. executives, including Ryoji Miyauchi, the Internet company's No. 2 man, have reversed themselves and are now telling prosecutors that President Takafumi Horie was involved in corporate takeovers currently under scrutiny, investigative sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jan 25, 2006

Pyongyang may hold secret info on missiles

Confidential data on a Defense Agency surface-to-air missile system may have been leaked to a group affiliated with the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryun) in 1995, the Defense Agency said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2006

Japan Post stock firm starts business

A new joint stock company set up by Japan Post began operations Monday in the leadup to privatization, which is scheduled to begin in October 2007.
JAPAN
Jan 23, 2006

Livedoor's Horie uses blog to deny wrongdoing

Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie, at the center of a high-profile probe over alleged securities law violations and financial statement falsifications, denied on his Internet blog Sunday involvement in any wrongdoing.
JAPAN
Jan 22, 2006

Japan to lodge protest over shoddy U.S. beef inspection

Top government officials said Saturday they would lodge protests with the United States after it was found that lack of knowledge on the part of an inspector allowed a banned material that poses a risk of mad cow disease to be included in a shipment of beef to Japan.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jan 22, 2006

When notoriety helps sell books

TOPPAMONO: Outlaw. Radical. Suspect. My Life in Japan's Underworld, by Manabu Miyazaki. Tokyo: Kotan Publishing, 2005, 460 pp., $26.95 (cloth). THE APPRENTICE by Lewis Libby. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, St. Martin edition, 2005, 265 pp., $12.95 (paper). Japan's student movement ended with a whimper...
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2006

Mizuho brass take hit for trade error

Mizuho Financial Group Inc. announced Friday that it will cut the pay of top executives over the trading blunder committed by Mizuho Securities Co.
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2006

Exec promotions in limbo amid Livedoor probe

The ongoing probe into the Livedoor group cast shadows Friday on executive appointments at three of its firms.
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2006

Diet hears Soken deny knowing of fraud in '04

General Management Consultant (Soken) executive and chief consultant Takeshi Shikasho on Thursday told the Diet, but not under oath, that he was never informed in 2004 about the building safety fraud centering on disgraced architect Hidetsugu Aneha, although the whistle-blower to the scam claims otherwise....
BUSINESS
Jan 20, 2006

Yamato loses suit over Japan Post ties with Lawson

Yamato Transport Co. lost a court battle Thursday against Japan Post over the public corporation's allegedly unfair tieup with convenience store chain Lawson Inc.
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2006

Prosecutors set to grill Livedoor execs

Prosecutors are poised to question top executives of Livedoor Co., including President Takafumi Horie, over alleged fraudulent practices apparently designed to expand the firm's business, investigative sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2006

Huser boss clams up before the Diet

Huser Ltd. President Susumu Ojima refused to answer most questions under oath Tuesday before a Diet committee in connection with the nationwide building safety scam in which his condominium development firm is a key player.
BUSINESS
Jan 18, 2006

Livedoor raid stirs up fear of Net stocks

The Nikkei stock average fell below the 16,000 line Tuesday as worried investors sold off Internet stocks amid the dust kicked up by prosecutors' search of Livedoor Co. over suspected securities law violations.
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2006

Cell phone, credit card linkup to exploit 60 trillion yen market

Using cell phones with credit card functions to make purchases is expected to be a big thing this year as major credit card firms scramble to get shops and stores to accept such payments.
BUSINESS
Jan 17, 2006

Kao exec to head Kanebo Cosmetics

Kao Corp. said Monday that Toshio Takayama, president of Kao Hanbai Co., will become chairman of Kanebo Cosmetics Inc., which Kao is due to acquire from the Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan later this month.
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2006

Huser sold condos knowing their safety was in doubt

The president of Huser Ltd. admitted Monday that the condominium developer concluded sales contracts and handed over units even after being told in late October that the quake-resistance data for its buildings had been falsified, leaving their structural integrity in doubt.
BUSINESS
Jan 14, 2006

Price slide chips at Elpida earnings

Computer chip maker Elpida Memory Inc. slashed its earnings forecasts for the October-December quarter Friday, blaming a faster-than-expected slide in memory-chip prices.
Tokyo releases AI-generated video of Mount Fuji erupting
A screenshot from an AI-generated video showing what could happen to Tokyo if Mount Fuji erupted
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Japan aims to tighten rules for business manager visas from October
The number of foreign residents with business management residency status had reached a record 41,615 as of the end of 2024.
Japanese prefectures break with labor ministry on minimum wage
The ministry of labor has suggested a 6% minimum wage increase, but most prefectures reporting so far are opting to go slightly higher.
Japan ranked one of the most peaceful places in Asia as global tensions rise
Visitors look at paper cranes hung at Peace Park in Nagasaki on Aug. 8, a day ahead of the 80th anniversary of the World War II atomic bombing of the city.
Japanese prefectures break with labor ministry on minimum wage
The ministry of labor has suggested a 6% minimum wage increase, but most prefectures reporting so far are opting to go slightly higher.
Philippines quietly deepening ‘unofficial’ defense ties with Taiwan
Filipino soldiers take part in a flag-raising ceremony on Mavulis Island during a visit by the Philippines' Armed Forces chief of staff, in Batanes, the Philippines, in June 2023. Batanes, a group of idyllic islands at the country’s northernmost tip, sits about 160 kilometers from Taiwan.
Are 'coolcations' the answer for Japan's heat-weary tourists?
Hikers on a trail in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture. As extreme heat continues to grip Japan, a tectonic shift may be underway in the nation’s summer tourism scene as more people gravitate toward cooler destinations.
Germany's first sakemaker offers a bold brew of ideas
Reigen, Germany's first sake brewery, makes a diverse, nontraditional range of sake that includes fruit-flavored sips and wine barrel-aged renditions.
Alicia Keys closed Summer Sonic, but J-pop owned it
Summer Sonic’s 2025 lineup demonstrated its strength, showcasing the latest in J-pop, including “new kawaii” act Fruits Zipper.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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