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JAPAN
Oct 14, 2001

Nuclear firms not fearful of terrorism

Japan's electric power companies are continuing to allow the public to visit their nuclear facilities despite security concerns in the wake of last month's terrorist attacks on the United States, company officials said Saturday.
JAPAN
Oct 9, 2001

Most singles think economy will affect marriage plans

OSAKA -- More than half of single people believe the nation's economic slump will make people postpone marriage plans, according to an online poll conducted by marriage information service company OMMG Inc.
BUSINESS
Oct 9, 2001

Most Japanese workers fled before strikes in Afghanistan

Most employees of the 23 Japanese companies doing business in Pakistan had been evacuated by the time U.S. and British forces launched their strikes against Afghanistan late Sunday, but workers and their families in Iran and Central Asia have not yet been moved.
BUSINESS
Oct 7, 2001

Milk product causes TB test error

Snow Brand Milk Products Co. says babies who drink one of its powdered milk products could test positive for tuberculosis even though they are not infected with TB.
CULTURE / Books
Oct 7, 2001

Failure on a grandiose scale

DOGS AND DEMONS: Tales From the Dark Side of Japan, by Alex Kerr. Hill and Wang, New York, 2001, 432 pp., $27.00 (cloth) Staff writer What has happened to Japan? Coming on the heels of the "lost decade," the January government reshuffle and a series of reforms that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi...
CULTURE / Music / FUZZY LOGIC
Oct 7, 2001

Make punk rock, not war

While I was in Britain, the world went mad. A puppet, Bob the Builder, beat French disco kings, The Supermen Lovers, to No. 1 on the U.K. singles chart; across the Atlantic, a puppet, George W. Bush, was not an idiot anymore, but a national hero; and, after 10 years, I'd suddenly become allergic to my...
BUSINESS
Oct 5, 2001

For NYSE, worse may be still to come

Although calm has returned to the New York Stock Exchange, further volatility appears inevitable in the near term amid uncertainty about the scope of U.S. military action against terrorism.
BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2001

Fujitsu chip production to go on five-day hiatus

Fujitsu Ltd. will suspend production of semiconductors at its three mainstay factories for five days this month to reduce inventories in response to slack demand, a company official said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2001

Yuasa lowers earnings forecasts

Storage battery maker Yuasa Corp. said Wednesday it has revised downward its group earnings forecasts for both the first half and full year of fiscal 2001 due to falling sales in its core battery business.
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2001

Nifty to compensate for service disruption

Nifty Corp., a leading Internet service provider owned by Fujitsu Ltd., plans to compensate more than 10,000 subscribers for system problems that occurred over the summer with its asymmetrical digital subscriber line service, company officials said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2001

Oki revises '01 earnings estimates

Oki Electric Industry Co. said Tuesday it has downwardly revised its net balance forecast for fiscal 2001 to an 8.5 billion yen loss on a group basis. It previously forecasted a 9 billion yen profit.
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2001

IHI slashes this year's earnings forecasts

Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. said Tuesday it has revised down its full- and half-year group earnings projections for the 2001 business year, citing hefty appraisal losses on its stock portfolios and a troubled subsidiary.
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2001

Miyazaki opens animation museum in Mitaka

Popular film director Hayao Miyazaki opened the Ghibli Museum of animation in Mitaka, western Tokyo, on Monday, greeting visitors eager to see his latest creations.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 30, 2001

A plague upon your house

Insects aren't everyone's favorite animals, especially when it comes to those such as cockroaches, termites and wasps that frighten us as well as potentially harm us and our environment.
BUSINESS
Sep 29, 2001

Sony revises down earnings on IT slump, U.S. attacks

Sony Corp. on Friday revised downward its earnings projections for fiscal 2001, reflecting the global economic slowdown led by a slumping information technology sector and the recent attacks in the United States.
BUSINESS
Sep 28, 2001

MTFG set to post loss in first half

Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., or MTFG, is likely to post a consolidated net loss of tens of billions of yen for the first half of the 2001 business year, compared with the 150 billion yen net profit forecast in May, company sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Sep 28, 2001

JR West, Kyushu Railway to sell Japan Telecom shares

West Japan Railway Co. and Kyushu Railway Co. announced Thursday that they will sell their stakes in Japan Telecom Co. to the Vodafone Group of Britain, which is attempting to take over Japan's No. 3 telecommunications firm.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2001

Matsushita to make digital movies

OSAKA -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Wednesday it will launch a company Monday to produce digital movies and another one to distribute them, possibly by the end of this year.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2001

Tokyu Land raises profit outlook

Tokyu Land Corp. Wednesday raised its group net profit projection for the first half of the current business year to 2.5 billion yen from 500 million yen.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2001

Daimaru to close Australian stores

Department store chain Daimaru Inc. said Tuesday it will close and liquidate its two stores in Australia.
BUSINESS
Sep 22, 2001

Mycal expects sponsor

Kozo Yamashita, president of the failed supermarket chain Mycal Corp., said Friday he expects a sponsor for the company's rehabilitation to take over its 100 profitable outlets.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Sep 22, 2001

Minako Suzuki

When she was a little girl, Minako Suzuki used to like "dreaming of being someone else." Many little girls play similar pretend games. In Minako's case, her pretending led her professionally and as a volunteer to the world of entertainment.
BUSINESS
Sep 21, 2001

Vodafone unit to launch Japan Telecom takeover

British cellular operator Vodafone Group PLC will today launch an agreed takeover bid over Japan Telecom Co. through a wholly owned subsidiary and take full control of the nation's third-largest operator with up to a 66.7 percent stake, Vodafone announced Thursday in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Sep 20, 2001

Mitsubishi Electric to ax jobs in wake of global IT slump

In a bid to cope with the slumping demand for information technology products, Mitsubishi Electric Corp. on Wednesday announced a midterm business plan that calls for cutting 2,000 jobs by the end of March 2003 and considering the possibility of a tieup in the cell phone business.

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