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BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2001

Sony to take new IC cash card overseas

Sony Corp. plans to offer a new electronic payment service based on an integrated circuit card, domestically and overseas, company officials said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2001

Tepco to put new plants on hold

Tokyo Electric Power Co. will postpone the introduction of new power facilities by three to five years in the face of slow growth in domestic power demand, the company said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2001

Tepco to put new plants on hold

Tokyo Electric Power Co. will postpone the introduction of new power facilities by three to five years in the face of slow growth in domestic power demand, the company said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Feb 7, 2001

Softbank scales down Internet plans

Softbank E-commerce Corp., a wholly owned unit of Softbank Corp., announced its intention Tuesday to postpone the launch of eS! Music Corp., an online music providing service, and to stop supporting Internet businesses of small and midsize firms under the SmartAge name.
BUSINESS
Feb 7, 2001

NKK, Sumitomo Heavy, Hitachi Zosen agree to unite steel businesses

NKK Corp., Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd. and Hitachi Zosen Corp. said Tuesday they have agreed on a broad business tieup with an eye toward integrating steel plant and engineering operations by the end of March 2003.
BUSINESS
Feb 7, 2001

Electronics firms unite on research into new LCDs

Japan's six major electronics makers have established a joint venture to develop next-generation liquid-crystal displays.
BUSINESS
Feb 7, 2001

Electronics firms unite on research into new LCDs

Japan's six major electronics makers have established a joint venture to develop next-generation liquid-crystal displays.
BUSINESS
Feb 7, 2001

JAL to hire more flight attendants

Japan Airlines said Tuesday it will resume recruitment of cabin crew for the first time in two years in fiscal 2001, which begins in April.
BUSINESS
Feb 7, 2001

JAL to hire more flight attendants

Japan Airlines said Tuesday it will resume recruitment of cabin crew for the first time in two years in fiscal 2001, which begins in April.
LIFE / Digital
Feb 7, 2001

Post-Dreamcast, Sega set to become world's top game publisher

SEATTLE -- With its recent decision to abandon the 128-bit Dreamcast video game console and to publish games for PlayStation2 and other gaming platforms, Sega appears to be leaving the game hardware business permanently. Sega Enterprises cofounder David Rosen says it's about time.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Feb 4, 2001

Shizuo Mochizuki

Shizuoka, the warm, sunny prefecture known for its peaceful hillsides where tea bushes grow, has always been home to Shizuo Mochizuki. His father kept a shop in Shizuoka where he sold Japanese cakes. Mochizuki says that neither tea bushes nor sweet cakes especially influenced him in choosing to make...
BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2001

Hopes rise as Fed cuts rates, Dow rebounds

The Tokyo stock market has had an overall positive tone recently, bolstered by a rebound on Wall Street.
JAPAN
Feb 2, 2001

Man to hang for robbery-murders

The Tokyo District Court sentenced a 56-year-old man to death Thursday for committing two robbery-murders, in 1996 and 1999, in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2001

JASDAC will manage OTC stock market

The Japan Securities Dealers Association on Thursday entrusted the comprehensive management of its over-the-counter stock market to Jasdaq Market Services Inc. (JASDAC), making it the first stock company to run a stock exchange in Japan, the JSDA said.
BUSINESS
Feb 1, 2001

Prudential plans to inject 50 billion yen into failed Kyoei

Prudential Insurance Co. of America will infuse 50 billion yen into failed Kyoei Life Insurance Co., Kyoei's court-appointed administrators said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2001

Dirt-cheap Internet calls stun phone firms

The information technology revolution is beginning to rock major telephone companies with the successive debut of unprecedented services such as free international phone calls and flat-rate domestic out-of-town calls.
BUSINESS
Feb 1, 2001

New French plant aims to build up Toyota's Europe presence

VALENCIENNES, France -- Toyota Motor Corp., Japan's largest automaker, started manufacturing the Yaris compact model at its first plant in France here on Wednesday, part of the company's efforts to increase its presence in Europe.
BUSINESS
Feb 1, 2001

New French plant aims to build up Toyota's Europe presence

VALENCIENNES, France -- Toyota Motor Corp., Japan's largest automaker, started manufacturing the Yaris compact model at its first plant in France here on Wednesday, part of the company's efforts to increase its presence in Europe.
COMMUNITY
Feb 1, 2001

Sophistication with a poignant twist

There is nothing quite like Cosmic Wonder. Since its inception in 1994, the Osaka-based fashion label has gone from being a cult name that only a few aficionados could identify to a sell-out collection at Ray Beams, the most directional of the Beams clothing stores in Tokyo. The company's clothes even...
BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2001

Expressway tollgates to go cashless

The so-called Electric Toll Collection system will begin full-scale operation on March 30 at 600 expressway gates in Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, Saitama and Okinawa prefectures, the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry announced Monday.
BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2001

Idemitsu, Tokuyama link on polypropylene

Major chemical company Idemitsu Petrochemical Co. and second-tier chemical maker Tokuyama Corp. will enter into a broad-based tieup in the field of polypropylene to jointly gear up competitiveness ahead of a planned gradual tariff reduction by 2004, company sources said Monday.
CULTURE / Stage
Jan 28, 2001

Playing 'The Mikado' in the 'Town of Titipu'

At a handsome old farmhouse turned coffee shop in Chichibu, western Saitama Prefecture, Yasuichi Tsukagoshi, 58, anxiously awaits March 10 when his cherished dream will come true.
BUSINESS
Jan 27, 2001

Auto output topped 10 million in 2000

Domestic production of motor vehicles in 2000 topped 10 million for the first time in two years, thanks to a pickup in domestic demand and strong exports to North America and Southeast Asia, an industry association said Friday.
JAPAN
Jan 27, 2001

British sports shoes clue to killings in Setagaya

The person who murdered a family of four in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward in late December wore a British brand of sneakers manufactured in South Korea, police said Friday.
BUSINESS
Jan 26, 2001

NKK discussing ties with Thyssen Krupp

NKK Corp., Japan's second-largest steelmaker, said Thursday it is holding talks with a steel unit of major German industrial group Thyssen Krupp AG to strengthen technological cooperation.
Workers say corporate South Korea was warned about questionable U.S. visas before Hyundai raid
Activists holding signs that reads "No one is illegal!" protest against a huge immigration raid last week in the U.S. state of Georgia, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Tuesday.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Goldman sells Tokyo office area to JR East for over ¥50 billion
GranTokyo South Tower (center). East Japan Railway has bought the 14th to 18th floors of the office building at a price of more than ¥50 billion from Goldman Sachs Group.
Ed Sheeran teams up with Tokyo’s Oedo Line
The “Oh! Ed! Collaboration Campaign,” launched on Tokyo's Keio Line to celebrate the Friday release of Ed Sheeran’s latest album, “Play,” includes a eight-car train dedicated to the pop star's music and trivia related to his career
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.
Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.
Search is on for loopholes in Japan’s $550 billion investment pledge
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick argues that U.S. President Donald Trump has sole authority to invest Japan's promised $550 billion.
In rural Hokkaido, the stops and starts of tourism revival on full display
Redevelopment plans for Kawayu Onsen have hit some snags — an example of how bringing tourists back to declining rural communities is far from easy work.

Podcast

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

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight
By Mai Yoshikawa

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