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BUSINESS
Sep 19, 2007

Talks on Goodwill Kyushu unit fail

Goodwill Group Inc., a staffing company and the parent of scandal-hit nursing care unit Comsn Inc., said Tuesday it intends to seek a new buyer for its nursing-care business in Kyushu after one prospect broke off talks.
BUSINESS
Sep 17, 2007

'IClones' steal market share as Apple bides time in Asia

SANCHUNG, Taipei
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2007

Sony shows off new Blu-ray disc recorders

Sony Corp. has announced it will start selling four new Blu-ray disc recorders to augment its lineup of DVD players in Japan, stepping up the battle in next-generation video formats.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 12, 2007

Nuclear steps undermine global peace

PRAGUE — By abandoning many of the nuclear arms agreements negotiated in the last 50 years, the United States has been sending mixed signals to North Korea, Iran and other nations with the technical knowledge to create nuclear weapons. Currently proposed agreements with India compound this quagmire...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Sep 11, 2007

What should people volunteer their time for?

BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2007

Sony 'rolls' out new music player

Sony Corp.'s new rolling egg-shaped digital music player swivels, flaps its ends and flashes colorful lights in time to music.
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2007

Canon to build printer ink plant

Canon Inc. will invest about ¥80 billion to build a factory in Aomori Prefecture to make ink cartridges for printers and photocopiers.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Sep 11, 2007

Toru Otsuka

Toru Otsuka, 67, is the president of Live Coffee, a coffee importer and roaster known for selling the best beans for the least dough. Otsuka is a treasure hunter: he handpicks only the highest quality from small growers around the globe, and considers his best finds the people who work with him. His...
BUSINESS
Sep 8, 2007

Suntory, PepsiCo in coffee tieup

Suntory Ltd. said Friday it has agreed to tie up with PepsiCo Inc. to sell canned coffee in Southeast Asia.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 2007

Media ignoring mercury-tainted dolphin meat: assemblyman

The Japanese media's lack of condemnation is the principal reason mercury-tainted dolphin meat continues to be consumed, including in school lunches, a local assembly member from Wakayama Prefecture said Monday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Sep 4, 2007

What's your take on the Asashoryu scandal?

BUSINESS
Sep 4, 2007

Softbank to focus on small businesses to beat DoCoMo, KDDI

Softbank Corp. expects to gain market share from NTT DoCoMo Inc. and KDDI Corp. by focusing on small businesses.
JAPAN
Aug 30, 2007

Opium King's ties believed went to the top

An obscure tomb in a small graveyard at a Chiba Prefecture temple marks the final resting place of Japan's wartime "Opium King," although the site betrays nothing of this dark cloud, nor the relationship the deceased had with key historical figures.
JAPAN
Aug 30, 2007

Japan profited as opium dealer in wartime China

A Japanese narcotics firm in wartime occupied China sold enough opium to nearly match the annual budget of Tokyo's puppet government in Nanjing, according to an internal company document recently discovered by The Japan Times.
BUSINESS
Aug 30, 2007

Hedge fund numbers, assets mushroom as stocks languish

Hiromichi Tsuyukubo ran the best-performing fund in Japan at Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management Co., an arm of the nation's biggest lender. Then, after six years, he decided to join a hedge fund.
JAPAN
Aug 30, 2007

Narcotics trade boosted army scrip

Japan used the opium trade of Shanghai's major dealer to prop up the value of its military currency in occupied China during the war, according to a leading expert on China's wartime economy, citing a former secret document.
COMMENTARY
Aug 29, 2007

Don't toy around with Sino-U.S. relations

LOS ANGELES — An effective foreign policy requires proportionate thinking. Hysteria and demagoguery can win a few elections, but they can lose wars and economic battles of enormous consequence. In the United States, foreign policy is particularly complex: Even if the president and the executive branch...
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2007

Toyota, Honda increase production

Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. boosted production in July as growth overseas more than offset a loss of output at home caused by an earthquake.
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 Post to stop accepting some parcels for shipment to the U.S.
Japan Post's UGX will still be available for many rejected packages.
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.
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
Character-crazed Japan has little appetite for Labubu
A pop-up advertisement for the newly opened Chiikawa Park in Tokyo's Ikebukuro neighborhood demonstrates how the country is chockful of cute characters — to the detriment of trends like Labubu.
Is Kishida plotting a return of the king? Or would he rather stay a kingmaker?
Former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida chairs a plenary session at the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama on Aug. 21.
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.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

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
By Alex K.T. Martin

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