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BUSINESS
Feb 4, 2006

Insurers mimic each other to clean up act

Four domestic nonlife insurers announced business improvement plans Friday in the wake of an industrywide failure to pay legitimate claims that prompted closer scrutiny of structural problems in the sector, including a follow-the-leader mentality.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Feb 4, 2006

Dave Bockmann

"A psychologist wants to change people. An organizer wants to change society," Dave Bockmann said.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Feb 4, 2006

The year 2006 -- going to the dogs

Jan. 29 was the Chinese Lunar New Year, the official beginning of the year of the dog according to the Chinese calendar. I did some dog-on-the-street interviews to find out what we can expect this year under the helm of the dogs.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Feb 4, 2006

Another strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

I have within me, I confess, a split personality -- like sheared halves of a single beating heart.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 3, 2006

Sharapova on track

Top seed Maria Sharapova began her defense of the Pan Pacific Open title in Tokyo on Thursday with a comfortable 6-4, 6-4 win over American qualifier Lisa Raymond.
JAPAN
Feb 3, 2006

Toyoko Inn qualifies apology to disabled

Toyoko Inn Co. President Norimasa Nishida apologized to a federation of nationwide disabled people's groups Thursday for removing mandatory facilities designed for their use at its hotels.
JAPAN
Feb 3, 2006

Livedoor tied to faked transactions

Former Livedoor Co. executives are now suspected of booking fictitious transactions and revenues in 2005 as well as those earlier reported for the year to September 2004, investigative sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Feb 3, 2006

SDP returns to roots, wants no military, or U.S. bases

The executive board of the Social Democratic Party on Thursday approved the final draft of a declaration that will reverse its stance on the Self-Defense Forces to argue that their existence violates the Constitution.
EDITORIALS
Feb 3, 2006

A way of looking at profits

Mr. Takafumi Horie, the 33-year-old maverick businessman who built the Livedoor Co. empire from scratch, has entered the most difficult phase of his life, confined to sleep in an unheated, three-mat cell in the Tokyo Detention House -- a world apart from his posh Roppongi Hills residence. The criminal...
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2006

Matsushita profits up 39% despite heater fiasco

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Thursday robust sales of plasma display panel TVs and digital cameras boosted its earnings for the third quarter of fiscal 2005, raising its net profit by 39 percent to 49.3 billion yen.
JAPAN
Feb 3, 2006

'80s serial killer Miyazaki's death sentence finalized

SAITAMA (Kyodo) The death sentence for serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki, 43, who was convicted of killing four girls in 1988 and 1989, is final now that the Supreme Court has rejected an objection filed by his counsel over a technical detail.
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2006

New games bring more people to video consoles

There may be no monsters to slay or racing cars to spin, but new video games that claim to stimulate the brain or translate languages are being snapped up by a new crowd of gamers.
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2006

Nissan operating profit sets record

Nissan Motor Co. said Thursday its group operating profit for the first nine months of the year through March 31 rose 3.1 percent from a year before to a record 631.16 billion yen, chiefly due to brisk demand in Japan, North America and Europe.
JAPAN
Feb 3, 2006

Key banks now ax ties to North-linked Banco Delta

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and Mizuho Corporate Bank have suspended transactions with Macau-based Banco Delta Asia SARL, designated by the United States as a major facilitator of North Korean money-laundering activities, sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2006

Cafe culture brings style to banking

It's easy to find a cafe in Tokyo's chic Omotesando district, but finding one with online banking service is a different matter altogether.
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2006

TSE's new IT czar has big task

The newly installed chief information officer at trouble-plagued Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. vowed Thursday to improve the computer trading system of Asia's largest bourse to make it more competitive in the global capital market.

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