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WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 3, 2014
Google threatened with lawsuit over leaked nude celebrity photos: New York Post
A lawyer who represents about a dozen female celebrities whose private photos were posted online by hackers has threatened to sue Google Inc for failing to take the photos off its websites, according to the New York Post.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 29, 2014
Japan Post eyes banking unit to solve ¥700 billion pension problem before IPO
Japan Post Holdings Co. will settle ¥700 billion of pension liabilities to bolster its balance sheet before an initial public offering, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 27, 2014
Obama woos veterans with mental health care, military home loans
President Barack Obama sought to make amends with veterans on Tuesday, announcing steps to expand their access to mental health care and an initiative with financial firms to lower home loan costs for military families.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / EVERYMAN EATS
Jul 22, 2014
O-chūgen: Hand-picked gourmet gifts courtesy of the postman
Even though the Japanese didn't invent the idea of exchanging gifts, they seem to be doing everything they can to convince themselves that they did. This is a culture, after all, that celebrates Christmas without Jesus, piles White Day on top of Valentine's Day, and has developed a whole species of cloth — furoshiki —for use chiefly as a means of wrapping presents.
COMMENTARY / World
May 19, 2014
Europe's economic Iron Curtain
Twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell, a just-released set of gloomy economic forecasts demonstrate how the countries formerly under Moscow's sway are still painfully connected to Russia and to one another.
BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Feb 27, 2014
Costly revamp in the works at Japan Post
Japan Post Holdings Co. is planning a massive investment to refurbish and reorganize its outlets and operations in its three-year management plan from fiscal 2014.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 7, 2014
Hysteric Picnic opts for cassette grooves and imperfections on 'Cult Pops'
In an age where the traditional guitar-bass-drums-vocals setup of a rock band is being eschewed in favor of more stripped-down groups using laptops and synthesizers, at first glance Hysteric Picnic may seem like it's just another band following the trend.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 7, 2014
Songwriter James Vincent McMorrow stuns on 'Post Tropical'
When James Vincent McMorrow performs, he squashes himself up behind a keyboard, feet apart and knees together, looking a little like a collapsed laundry rack. The 30-year-old's right hand shakes from the beginning of a song to its end. You give up drink, as the Dubliner did two years ago, and "all of a sudden the nerves come back."
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2013
Myanmar to get Japan Post model of efficient, fast mail
An initiative has been launched to modernize Myanmar's postal system by introducing Japan's fast, efficient and precise services, in line with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic revitalization plans featuring exports of advanced technologies and services, especially to developing countries in Asia.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Dec 5, 2013
Postal employees carry extra burden during the holiday season
Sales quotas make postal employees' lives miserable at the end of the year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 19, 2013
Japan Post, bank, insurer all plan IPOs in 2015
Japan Post Holdings Co. plans to go public together with its banking and insurance units in spring 2015, sources close to the matter said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2013
Japan Post plans first price hikes in 20 years to offset sales tax increase
Japan Post Co. plans to raise prices for the first time in 20 years if the administration proceeds with the first stage of the consumption tax hike next April, officials said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 26, 2013
Japan Post makes foray into support services for elderly
Japan Post Co. said Monday it will begin offering support services for the elderly in October by making use of its mail delivery network, stepping beyond its postal, savings and insurance businesses for the first time.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2013
Defense Ministry to set up foreign liaison post
The Defense Ministry plans to establish a vice ministerial-level post for handling discussions with other countries on exchanges and strategic dialogue.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Aug 7, 2013
Can Amazon's Bezos save the newspaper business?
Amazon.com founder Jeffrey Bezos' purchase of The Washington Post promises not just an ownership change for the 135-year-old institution but a potential transformation of the fusty mechanics of the newspaper business.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Aug 6, 2013
Grahams shepherded Post through tumultuous eight decades
It began with a bankruptcy sale in 1933, when a Republican businessman and presidential confidant reinvented himself as a newspaper publisher in the nation's capital. It ended with an announcement that his descendants had sold the newspaper to an Internet wizard who lives in the Washington on the other side of the country.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Aug 6, 2013
Purchase harks back to age of newspaper titans
The Graham family's decision to sell The Washington Post to Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos underscores the re-emergence of wealthy individuals at the helm of major metro dailies as newspapers seek a refuge from the battering they have experienced on Wall Street.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 26, 2013
Aflac wins wider access to Japan Post's insurance sales network
Japan Post Holdings Co., the country's biggest holder of bank deposits, will start selling more insurance products by Aflac Inc., the largest provider of supplemental health insurance.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 25, 2013
Japan Post to expand Aflac alliance
Japan Post Group plans to expand its business collaboration with American Family Life Assurance Co. (Aflac) by sharply increasing sales outlets handling the U.S. insurer's cancer policies.
Japan Times
Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
May 21, 2013
Postal symbol
Dear Alice,

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