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BUSINESS
Jul 14, 2005

Big-name firms expected to bid on Kanebo bailout

Kao Corp., L'Oreal SA and Proctor & Gamble Co. are among firms expected to bid on struggling Kanebo Ltd. and Kanebo Cosmetics Inc. when the Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan issues requests for tenders, industry sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jul 13, 2005

Japan Highway retiree, four bridge execs held in bid-rigging

Prosecutors Tuesday arrested a former board member of Japan Highway Public Corp. and four officials of major bridge builders for alleged bid-rigging on projects ordered by the government-affiliated body.
BUSINESS
Jul 13, 2005

Toshiba hails U.S. judge's decision on Lexar

Toshiba Corp. on Tuesday welcomed a U.S. judge's rejection of a California company's bid to bar it from selling products that use flash memory chips.
BUSINESS
Jul 12, 2005

KDDI to offer handsets for JR East payments

KDDI Corp. said Monday it will start a new service in January in which its handsets can be used as smart tickets for trains operated by East Japan Railway Co.
BUSINESS
Jul 12, 2005

Sompo Japan, Omron unit plan health support venture

Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. and Omron Healthcare Co. said Monday they have agreed to set up a joint venture Oct. 1 to offer health-care support services.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jul 10, 2005

Where Zen is perfectly at home

ZEN AND KYOTO, by John Einarsen. Uniplan Co., Inc, 2004, 135 pp., 2,381 yen (paper). Like heaven and hell, or the elements of earth and rock, Zen and the city of Kyoto are joined at the hip.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Jul 9, 2005

Five signs of the coming Golden Age of trance

In the fast and chaotic protoculture growing around psychedelic trance in Japan, it is often difficult at best and futile at worst to try to get a genuine fix on the direction in which we are headed.
JAPAN
Jul 7, 2005

Ex-Mitsui officials charged in filter scam

Prosecutors charged a former Mitsui & Co. employee and a former official of a Mitsui subsidiary Monday with fabricating test data to obtain official approval for a diesel particular filter.
BUSINESS
Jul 7, 2005

Dentsu to nurture China ad experts

Dentsu Inc. said Wednesday it will launch a joint project with the Chinese government to develop human resources in China in the field of advertising.
JAPAN
Jul 7, 2005

Ex-Mitsui officials charged in filter scam

Prosecutors charged a former Mitsui & Co. employee and a former official of a Mitsui subsidiary Monday with fabricating test data to obtain official approval for a diesel particular filter.
JAPAN
Jul 4, 2005

Daiei to sell 100 additional properties to cut debt

Daiei Inc. plans to sell an additional 100 real estate assets for 20 billion yen to cut huge interest-bearing debts as a key part of its rehabilitation plan, company sources said Sunday.
BUSINESS
Jul 1, 2005

AMD sues Intel for damages in Japan

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Japan unit said Thursday that it has filed two lawsuits against Intel Corp.'s Japanese unit for $55 million in damages.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2005

Law passes to facilitate M&As but allow for takeover defenses

The House of Councilors on Wednesday passed into law a bill to update the corporate legal system, facilitate mergers and acquisitions and enhance defenses against hostile takeovers.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jun 30, 2005

A revealing peek inside working women's purses

Let me confess my weakness: women's briefcases. I don't mean buying them; I mean peeking into those belonging to my friends, and begging them to take out the contents so I can look them over and go "Heeeee, soonandaaa (Oooh, so THAT's what it's all about)."
BUSINESS
Jun 29, 2005

E-commerce grew sharply in 2004

Japan saw a sharp rise in Internet-based business-to-business and business-to-consumer commerce last year, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 23, 2005

Diet passes amendment to SEC law

The Diet passed a bill Wednesday to fine companies for giving false information in their financial statements and to tighten rules on large-lot off-hours stock trading.
JAPAN
Jun 23, 2005

Death, disease not linked to smoking: high court

The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal filed by former smokers, some now deceased, who were each demanding 10 million yen in compensation from Japan Tobacco Inc. and the government for tobacco-induced illnesses.
BUSINESS
Jun 22, 2005

NBS shareholder puts proxy up for bid

A document authorizing its bearer to attend a Nippon Broadcasting System Inc. shareholders' meeting Friday was offered for sale on the Internet auction site of Yahoo Japan Corp., according to Yahoo Japan officials.
BUSINESS
Jun 22, 2005

DoCoMo among firms kicking off annual shareholders' meetings

Annual shareholders' meetings kicked off in earnest this week, with the annual rite expected to peak June 29 as more than 1,000 listed companies face their investors.
BUSINESS
Jun 22, 2005

Kokudo, Prince show negative worth

Kokudo Corp. and Prince Hotels Inc., members of the Seibu Railway Co. group, each had a negative net worth in fiscal 2004 due to large extraordinary losses, company officials said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2005

Japanese credit card holders hit by security breach in U.S.

At least 30 credit card holders in Japan have been hit by fraudulent transactions resulting from the security breach announced Friday in the United States by MasterCard International Inc., according to industry officials.
BUSINESS
Jun 21, 2005

Seiyu to delist in Germany, Euronext

Supermarket chain operator Seiyu Ltd. said Monday it has decided to delist its shares from stock exchanges in Frankfurt and Duesseldorf and the pan-European Euronext due to low trading volumes there.
JAPAN / A GENERATION CLOCKS OUT
Jun 21, 2005

Baby boomers poised to turn pensioners en masse

A mass exodus looms in 2007 when baby boomers begin reaching retirement age, and the implications — both positive and negative — will be far-reaching.

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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past