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MANAGEMENT 2

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 17, 2020
Taking stock of disaster losses five years after the Sendai world conference
The 'decade of action' starting this year will reveal how successful or not the Sendai Framework has been in reducing disaster losses.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 13, 2020
SoftBank plans ¥500 billion share buyback as advocated by activist investor
SoftBank Group Corp. plans to spend up to ¥500 billion ($4.8 billion) buying back as much as 7 percent of its shares, taking a step advocated by activist investor Elliott Management Corp. to boost stockholder value.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 13, 2020
SoftBank chief welcomes activist investor Singer as Vision Fund logs loss
SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son opened the door to making at least some of the changes championed by activist investor Paul Singer, after the company reported a second quarter of losses from its startup investing.
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 10, 2020
Japanese asset manager awaits flood of money from regional banks
Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings Inc. anticipates a flood of money from yield-starved regional banks that need help reinvesting cash after redeeming government bonds.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 12, 2019
Japan Display in talks for ¥90 billion injection from private fund
Japan Display Inc. is in talks with private fund Ichigo Asset Management Ltd. about a capital injection of around ¥90 billion that would shore up its ailing finances, sources close to the matter said Thursday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 9, 2019
Traffic and transportation strategies for the 2020 Games
Innovative traffic and transportation management strategies are being developed to handle the surge in travelers and traffic during the games and the various trial events.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 29, 2019
AT&T to sell off $10 billion of businesses, pay off Time purchase debt as it confronts activist investor
AT&T Inc. on Monday unveiled a three-year strategic plan that included selling up to $10 billion worth of businesses next year, paying off all its debt from the purchase of Time Warner and adding two new board members, bowing to pressure from activist investor Elliott Management.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 10, 2019
Activist investor Elliott questions AT&T takeover of Time Warner as Trump calls for changes at CNN
Activist investor Elliott Management Corp. on Monday questioned AT&T Inc.'s $85 billion takeover of Time Warner and called for the wireless carrier to sell noncore businesses to boost its stock price, driving its shares their highest in a year.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2019
Japan to train firefighters to operate drones with an eye toward disaster response
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency will train firefighters to operate drones in an attempt to promote the use of them in disaster response efforts.
COMMENTARY / World
May 7, 2019
Boeing's 737 defense a textbook mess
Quibbling over the meaning of 'safety feature' adds to a litany of errors.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 13, 2019
Japan Display inks deal for ¥80 billion bailout by Chinese and Taiwanese firms
Japan Display Inc. has signed a deal to receive an ¥80 billion ($715 million) capital injection from a group of Chinese and Taiwanese firms, leaving its revival, initially planned under a Japanese government-backed fund, in the hands of foreign companies.
EDITORIALS
Jan 29, 2019
Wage hikes can help beat economic uncertainties
The growing economic uncertainties are all the more reason why companies that can afford to offer substantial raises should do so in order to shore up consumer spending and domestic demand.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Dec 1, 2018
Carlos Ghosn's arrest is more about Japanese criminal justice than corporate governance
A 'hostage-based' criminal justice system, second arrests and trial by public all play a part in a case that the world is watching.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Nov 24, 2018
Can greed be good? Carlos Ghosn, CEO compensation and a skeptical Japanese public
After Carlos Ghosn's shocking arrest Monday, many of his most ardent supporters were left to reconcile their positive image of the man said to have saved Nissan Motor Co. against the possibility he may have committed numerous crimes.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2018
Interpreter services for emergency calls offered by 38% of fire departments in Japan
Around 38 percent of fire departments across the nation offer interpreter services for emergency calls made by people who cannot speak Japanese, a government survey showed Thursday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 10, 2018
The necessary calamity
Officials should use the Typhoon Jebi experience to improve their disaster management responses.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Aug 7, 2018
Record 70,000 people rushed to hospitals since April 30 amid scorching Japan heat wave
Scorching summer heat has sent more than 70,000 people to hospitals across the country over the last three months, far exceeding the previous annual record set in 2013, government data showed Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 27, 2018
Robert Mueller says Putin associate shouldn't see evidence in U.S. criminal case unless he appears in court
U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller said a longtime associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin should be barred from seeing evidence in a U.S. criminal case unless he appears in court to defend himself.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 21, 2018
'Herbivore' investor Haruhiro Nakano takes on lions of Japanese finance
In a tiny, windowless meeting room high above the streets of Tokyo, Haruhiro Nakano starts to cry. The rail-thin, 54-year-old fund manager, who looks like a faded former J-pop star, has just shared his investing pitch, which sounds so deceptively simple you may not appreciate just how radical it is: Japanese workers, Nakano says, should invest for retirement using the capital markets rather than letting more than $8.6 trillion fester in bank accounts.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 19, 2017
Want to increase workplace productivity?
Companies are not investing enough in strategic employee communications to produce an engaged workforce.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
'Monster' Inoue ready to tear down Luis Nery in title defense at Tokyo Dome
Naoya Inoue (left) and Luis Nery following a pre-fight news conference in Yokohama on Saturday, two days ahead of their super bantamweight title fight.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.

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