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BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 6, 2015
Big U.S. firms hiding trillions abroad to avoid taxes: study
The 500 largest American companies hold more than $2.1 trillion in accumulated profits offshore to avoid U.S. taxes and would collectively owe an estimated $620 billion in taxes if they repatriated the funds, according to a study released Tuesday.
Japan Times
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.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Sep 19, 2015
Meeting of minds
Mr. Yamada dropped off an envelope for you.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Sep 12, 2015
Traveling light
I packed a belt, socks, ties ...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 9, 2015
Shareholder demands Toshiba sue execs over accounting scandal
An individual shareholder of Toshiba Corp. has demanded that the company file a ¥1 billion damages suit against 28 current and former executives for ruining the firm's credibility by turning a blind eye to widespread mis-accounting.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 28, 2015
Upper House passes law allowing businesses easier use of personal data
The House of Councilors enacted into law on Friday a bill amendment to make it easier for businesses to use personal information while toughening penalties for data abuse.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 13, 2015
Toshiba may book ¥100 billion loss in fiscal 2014 amid accounting scandal
Toshiba Corp. may book a loss of over ¥100 billion for the business year through March 2015 as it grapples with a sweeping accounting scandal, sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday.
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
JAPAN / Society
Jul 31, 2015
Changing the culture of long working hours key to increasing Japan's female workforce
The plight of Japan's working women has improved dramatically over the past two decades. Maternity leave has become the norm, slots at nurseries have increased by more than 340,000 and the percentage of female executives or women serving as department chiefs at companies has tripled.
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
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2015
20th women's conference looks to make history
Gender equality in the workforce is not a simple thing to achieve.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 4, 2015
Toshiba's accounting scandal nearly triples to ¥150 billion: source
The magnitude of Toshiba's accounting scandal nearly triples as sources reveal that group operating profit was likely overstated by u00a5150 billion over five years.
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.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 22, 2015
Toshiba to announce next week scope of accounting irregularities probe
Toshiba Corp. will announce early next week the scope of a third-party probe into accounting irregularities which have led the electronics giant to overstate its profits, sources close to the matter said Thursday.
EDITORIALS
May 14, 2015
Qualified outside directors needed
Companies may be required to bring in more outside directors, but their mere presence won't be enough — they must have the power to affect decisions.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
May 9, 2015
The 'dwarf' architect of Japan's literary boom
With a chuckle, translator and literary critic Motoyuki Shibata recalls the way author Steven Millhauser once described him.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 30, 2015
China rhetoric emboldens business critics
Private entrepreneurs in China are voicing unprecedented criticism of government, encouraged by policies and rhetoric from Beijing emphasizing support for the most productive sectors of the economy.
EDITORIALS
Apr 14, 2015
Settling disputes over unfair firings
If the government introduces a new system that allows the use of financial compensation to settle legal disputes over unfair dismissals, it should ensure that workers are not placed at a disadvantage.
Rare tissue-damaging bacteria spreads in Japan
Group A Streptococcus typically causes swelling and a sore throat in children, but some types of the bacteria can lead to symptoms developing rapidly.
North Korea building roads and walls inside DMZ, report says
What's believed to be loudspeakers at the top of a hill on the North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas, on Tuesday.
Kishida calls for peace, as Russia's absence overshadows Ukraine summit
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is welcomed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prior to the start of a Ukraine peace summit in Burgenstock, Switzerland, on Saturday.
Facial recognition for train passengers in use in Chiba Prefecture
A facial recognition system at ticket gates has been introduced at the Yamaman Yukarigaoka Line in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture.
Southwest Airlines plane plunged within 120 meters of ocean near Hawaii
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Japan’s gamified environment apps target a greener mindset
A person uses a tong with a camera and GPS system attached to pick up litter, part of an initiative to boost participation in collecting trash.
Calls for Kishida to step down growing among local LDP chapters
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida listens to voters in the city of Kumamoto in April. Liberal Democratic Party politicians are afraid that Kishida's unpopularity could seal their own fates when they stand for local elections.
Renho, the liberal politician who might dethrone Tokyo's Koike
Renho speaks to reporters on Wednesday in Tokyo.
Despite its hardworking image, Japan might be No. 1 in quiet quitting
Only 6% of the Japanese workforce is engaged while a third of the workforce is job hunting or looking out for new opportunities, according to a Gallup report.
In Japan, a legal fight for the right to sterilization surgery
Kazane Kajiya, 27, (second from left) and others filed a lawsuit against the state, arguing that the Maternal Health Law infringes upon their constitutional rights by restricting women's ability to make decisions about their own bodies.

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