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BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2009

Nippon Steel to double output cuts

Nippon Steel Corp., Asia's largest steelmaker, will more than double planned output cuts as the global recession cools demand, President Shoji Muneoka said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jan 24, 2009

Poor beginnings help nurture get-up-and-go

Natalia Roschina feels frustrated. Frustrated at complaints about a bad economy and frustrated at people not taking the initiative to better their situation. Instead of dwelling on the dismal state of economic affairs, the entrepreneur wants to lead by example, improving herself, growing her business,...
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2009

Tepco to seek OK to test run quake-hit reactor

Tokyo Electric Power Co. will seek a ban on the operation of its quake-damaged nuclear plant lifted, paving the way for a test run when it completes repairs of one of the reactors next month.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2009

Anheuser to sell Asahi 19.9% TsingTao stake

Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, the world's largest beer maker, announced Friday it has agreed to sell to Asahi Breweries Ltd. the majority of its stake in Chinese brewer TsingTao Brewery Co. for $667 million to help reduce its debt.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2009

Sanyo, Nippon Oil in battery tieup

Sanyo Electric Co., the world's largest rechargeable-battery maker, and Nippon Oil Corp. said Friday they each hold 50 percent of a venture established to tap demand for solar-battery panels.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2009

BOJ warns economy 'deteriorating significantly'

The Bank of Japan said Friday the economy is plunging drastically, downgrading its assessment for the third month in a row.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2009

JAL offers staff unpaid leave

Japan Airlines Corp., Asia's biggest carrier by sales, is asking workers to take unpaid leave at its international unit for the first time in four years amid slumping demand for air travel.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2009

KDDI profits grew 49% in third quarter

KDDI Corp. reported profit rose 49 percent in the third quarter because of lower payments for handset subsidies.
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Jan 24, 2009

Neumann analyzes Curry, recalls Pistol Pete

Every dozen years or so, a young athlete arrives on the scene — Cristiano Ronaldo, Usain Bolt or LeBron James, for instance — with the demeanor, athleticism and poise beyond their years to be the next standard-bearer of excellence in that sport.
JAPAN
Jan 23, 2009

LDP panel dilutes tax hike proposal as peers rebel against setting a date

A key Liberal Democratic Party panel barely managed to contain a rebellion Thursday as debate on a proposal to schedule a consumption tax hike forced it to toss in vague wording that provides more wiggle room in picking a date for the increase.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 23, 2009

Toilets take center stage at exhibition

As if the scandals of the last few years were not enough, Japan's sumo fraternity must now suffer the indignity of having its toilets exhibited in public.
BUSINESS
Jan 23, 2009

BOJ to spend ¥3 trillion on CP, mull buying bonds

The Bank of Japan said Thursday it will purchase up to ¥3 trillion worth of commercial paper from financial institutions, and investigate ways to implement outright purchases of corporate bonds to facilitate corporate financing.
CULTURE / Film
Jan 23, 2009

'Le Silence de Lorna'

In the life-view of Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, hardship is a prerequisite; survival the main objective; love and beauty incidental — a freak extravagance that sometimes falls from the sky to land on the lap. Le Silence de Lorna Rating: (4.5 out of 5) Loveless:...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 23, 2009

The Ting Tings

When the hype machine in their native Britain sent newcomers The Ting Tings into overdrive in 2008, the Manchester duo had one advantage over other acts garnering similar column inches: The Ting Tings were actually good.
OLYMPICS
Jan 23, 2009

Roads getting safer

Traffic accidents in Japan claimed 5,155 lives in 2008, down 589 from the previous year and marking the eighth straight year of decline. The number of annual traffic deaths is now about 30 percent of the record set in 1970 when 16,765 people died. This news is most welcome, but police, drivers and pedestrians...
BUSINESS
Jan 23, 2009

Sony warns markets of ¥260 billion loss, opts to shut TV plant

Sony Corp. said Thursday that it expects to report a record ¥260 billion group operating loss for the business year ending March 31 as plummeting global demand and the yen's surge against the dollar wreaked havoc on sales.
CULTURE / Film
Jan 23, 2009

Arta Dobroshi: A role model

Like her character, Lorna, in "Le Silence de Lorna," 29-year-old Arta Dobroshi was born in a less prosperous, unstable region of Europe (in her case Kosovo), but unlike Lorna, she has studied in the United States, traveled extensively, and has been studying the performing arts since elementary school....
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 23, 2009

World-renowned Chicago orchestra to play in Japan

Classical music fans in Japan are set for a treat when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, one of the most important orchestras in the United States, performs here under the baton of Bernard Haitink, one of the world's foremost maestros, on Jan. 31, Feb. 1, 3 and 4.
EDITORIALS
Jan 23, 2009

Another slush-fund scandal

A slush-fund scandal has hit the construction industry again. Tokyo public prosecutors on Tuesday arrested the president of Nishimatsu Construction Co. on suspicion of instructing a former vice president and three others to bring ¥70 million into Japan without reporting it to customs authorities between...
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
China warns citizens not to visit Japan as row over Taiwan heats up
Chinese tourists wear kimonos as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Ashfall warning in Japan as volcano erupts
View of Sakurajima from the mainland of Kagoshima Prefecture
Suspect on run after woman stabbed by stranger in Tokyo’s Akasaka area
Metropolitan Police Department investigators examine a poster put up at a building where a woman was stabbed, in the capital’s Minato Ward on Sunday.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Stablecoins: Boring goes big, and now in Japan
Noritaka Okabe, CEO of JPYC, acknowledges a number of potential risks related to stablecoins.
Shohei Ohtani collects fourth MVP Award with 2025 NL honor
The Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani was named National League MVP for the second straight season on Thursday.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.

Podcast

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

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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
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