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BUSINESS ETHICS

BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 30, 2015
Reappearance of old faces on Toshiba board questions commitment to reform
Scandal-hit Toshiba Corp. appointed new board members at an extraordinary shareholders meeting, vowing to improve its corporate culture and governance.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 23, 2015
Turing CEO will lower price of $750-a-pill antibiotic — but doesn't say how much
Martin Shkreli, chief executive officer of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG, said he would lower the price of the drug Daraprim after being criticized for boosting it fifty-fold to $750 a pill.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2015
A portrait of 'Rain Man,' the convicted Libor-rigging trader and former Tokyo resident
He was so obsessed with the numbers that he did not see his downfall coming.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 1, 2015
Trump sought to import foreign workers
Donald Trump is staking his run for U.S. president in part on a vow to protect American jobs. But this month, one of his companies, the elite Mar-a-Lago Club resort in Florida, applied to import 70 foreign workers to serve as cooks, wait staff and cleaners.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2015
Subaru's hometown transformed by foreign workers
Afghan children studying at a madrassa, Catholic mass in seven languages, workers from over sixty countries.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / TELLING LIVES
Jun 21, 2015
Governance guru pushes Japan Inc. to open up and diversify
Former trailblazing dean Christina Ahmadjian finds her balance between the classroom and boardroom.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 7, 2014
Putin allies channeled billions to Ukraine oligarch with sweetheart deals
In Russia, powerful friends helped him make a fortune. In the United States, officials want him extradited and put behind bars. In Austria, where he is currently free on bail of $155 million, authorities have yet to decide what to do with him.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 22, 2014
EU Parliament mulls breaking up Google to curb its dominance in search
The European Parliament is preparing a nonbinding resolution that proposes splitting Google Inc.'s search engine operations in Europe from the rest of its business as one option to rein in the Internet company's dominance in the search market.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 7, 2014
Redefining the concept of business confidence
Amid the constant stream of security and data breaches and allegations of financial manipulation, American business leaders are feeling the type of public disdain and lack of trust once reserved for politicians.
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2014
Kookmin Bank's Japan branches suspended for making improper loans
Kookmin Bank, South Korea's largest lender, was suspended from conducting new transactions at its branches in Japan for improper lending.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 8, 2014
Documents suggest multinationals aided Brazil military regime
When Joao Paulo de Oliveira was fired in 1980 by Rapistan, a Michigan-based manufacturer of conveyor belts, his troubles were only beginning.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 26, 2014
U.S. expands probe into banks' hiring
U.S. government agencies that have been probing banks' hiring of the children of powerful Chinese officials are expanding existing investigations in other industries across Asia to include hiring practices, four people familiar with the matter said.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 12, 2014
Documents show GM knew of defects
General Motors engineers were well aware of serious problems with ignition switches in GM small cars, but rejected several opportunities to make fixes, dozens of confidential documents released Friday by a congressional committee showed.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 9, 2014
Corporate America's offshore cash pile rises to $2.1 trillion: study
Foreign profits held overseas by U.S. corporations to avoid taxes at home nearly doubled from 2008 to 2013 to top $2.1 trillion, a private research firm's said in a report, prompting a call for reform by the Senate's top tax law writer.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 11, 2013
U.S. initiative spending booms past $1 billion over past 18 months
Corporations and some of the wealthiest Americans spent more than $1 billion over the past 18 months on ballot initiatives in just 11 states, according to campaign finance data, an explosion of money used to pass new laws and influence the public debate.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 23, 2013
U.S. sees huge JPMorgan deal as template for future bank settlements
The U.S. Justice Department plans to use its tentative $13 billion settlement with JPMorgan Chase as a blueprint for reaching similar deals with other banks in probes related to bad mortgages and the 2008 financial crisis.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 20, 2013
Investor matchmaking about to get easier in U.S.
Only a year after its launch, Anton Gelman's young technology company secured its first round of investment in January and he is already laying the groundwork for a second, much larger injection of capital.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 17, 2013
'London Whale' to cost JPMorgan $750 million
Authorities in the United States and Britain are set to hand down roughly $750 million in fines against JPMorgan Chase over the bank's disastrous "London Whale" trading losses last year, according to people familiar with the negotiations.
BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2013
China orders government debt audit
China will start a nationwide audit of government debt this week as the new Communist Party leadership investigates the threats to growth and the financial system from a record credit boom.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 26, 2013
SAC Capital is charged in wire, securities fraud
Federal prosecutors unveiled criminal charges Thursday against famed hedge fund SAC Capital, citing "institutional practices" that encouraged a culture of using inside information to gain illegal profits.

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