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BUSINESS

JAPAN
Oct 9, 2013
Metro government to extend hours of arts, sports facilities
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will move up or extend business hours at its arts and sports facilities this fall and winter to accommodate more diverse lifestyles.
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2013
Businesses salivate over games boost
With the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics headed to Tokyo, many see the next seven years as a chance to revive the nation's moribund economy.
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.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 18, 2013
Newspaper rescue defines today's good citizen
It would appear that Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos wants less to own The Washington Post than to set its values free financially, for at least a generation or two.
EDITORIALS
Aug 13, 2013
Opportunity to raise wages
armakers and other large Japanese manufacturers should take a cue from better business results of late, due to the weaker yen, and increase workers' wages.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 8, 2013
Businesswomen assemble in Odaiba to close gender gap
Hundreds of working women from Hokkaido to Okinawa gathered at the 18th International Conference for Women in Business in Tokyo's Odaiba district to discuss ways to close Japan's huge gender gap and help women play bigger roles in the workforce.
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.
EDITORIALS
Jul 25, 2013
Economic turnaround to what?
Although a government white paper lauds the prime minister's 'Abenomics' policy, it's not clear whether stronger business earnings will lead to higher wages.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 25, 2013
Honda's Fujino readying 'flying Acura'
Michimasa Fujino began working on Honda Motor Co.'s aviation project 27 years ago at a hangar in Mississippi. Next year, Fujino, now president of the aircraft unit, says the project may finally get off the ground.
BUSINESS
Jul 20, 2013
G-20 vows to prioritize employment, economic growth in short term
The finance chiefs of the Group of 20 major economies pledge to take necessary steps to boost job creation and economic growth as a near-term priority.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 15, 2013
Kochs use Web to slam critical reports
When environmental journalist David Sassoon began reporting about the billionaire Koch brothers' interests in the Canadian oil industry last year, he sought information from their privately held conglomerate, Koch Industries. The brothers, who have gained prominence in recent years as supporters of and...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Jul 8, 2013
Lobbyists keep SEC's executive-pay ratio rule in limbo
Soon after Congress approved the largest overhaul of financial regulation in generations, the Securities and Exchange Commission moved to enforce what it considered one of the simpler parts of a mammoth and complicated law.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 3, 2013
Join Wall Street, save the world: The rise of the benevolent class
Jason Trigg went into finance because he is after money — as much as he can earn. The 25-year-old certainly had other career options. An MIT computer science graduate, he could write software for the next tech giant. Or he might have gone into academia in computing or applied math or biology. He could...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 19, 2013
Myanmar opening to U.S. influence — and business
T-shirts bearing images of U.S. President Barack Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's prodemocracy leader, hang side by side in the shops just off busy Kabar Aye Pagoda Road in Yangon. It's a reminder of the history made in November when Obama became the first sitting U.S. leader to set foot in Myanmar,...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Apr 9, 2013
Whatever happened to the Goldman Sachs union?
In February 2012, a small band of sacked workers in Japan took on one of the world's biggest investment banks, Goldman Sachs, unionizing in a bid to keep their jobs and win a better deal from a firm they believed had treated them unfairly.
‘We have drawn lessons,’ Indian Army chief says of brief clash with Pakistan
Indian Army chief Upendra Dwivedi waves as he arrives to attend the ceremonial reception of Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in New Delhi in May.
Japanese immunologist among three Nobel medicine prize winners
Shimon Sakaguchi, an immunologist and distinguished professor at Osaka University, attends a news conference after winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in medicine, in Osaka Prefecture on Monday.
Spanish tourist injured in latest bear attack
Shirakawago, a U.N. World Heritage site in Gifu Prefecture
Americans and Canadians unite in battling 'eating machine' carp
A Fisheries and Oceans Canada team patrols the Grand River in Dunnville, Ontario, in search of invasive grass carp specimens on Sept. 25.
Trump hails 'wisdom and strength' of Japan's incoming prime minister
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, gives a news conference after the LDP presidential election in Tokyo on Saturday.
Takaichi, the LDP’s first female president, is far from an ‘overnight success’
Newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party chief Sanae Takaichi greets her fellow LDP members on Saturday at party headquarters.
‘We have drawn lessons,’ Indian Army chief says of brief clash with Pakistan
Indian Army chief Upendra Dwivedi waves as he arrives to attend the ceremonial reception of Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in New Delhi in May.
How a family-run landscaper turned the Osaka Expo green
The team at Ryokukou Garden consists primarily of a single family, including Toshiki Tanisaki (second from right), who led the company's efforts at the Osaka Expo, Chikako Tanisaki (fifth from right), who performs daily maintanence at the expo, and Takeshi Tanisaki (fourth from right), who added a nursery to the family farm more than 50 years ago.
Eat your balloons: The culinary theater of Grant Achatz comes to Tokyo
Avant-garde chef Grant Achatz and his team from Alinea are in Tokyo for a three-week residency.
Japan’s first foreign wine investor plants its roots in Hokkaido
Intrigued by Japanese wines, Burgundy winemaker Etienne de Montille decided to explore Hokkaido's wine scene, eventually setting up his outpost in Hakodate in 2017.

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