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MANAGEMENT 2

BASKETBALL
Mar 27, 2015
Nagasaki withdraws application to enter bj-league for 2015-16 season
Last September, the bj-league gave a Nagasaki-based expansion franchise the green light to begin play for the 2015-16 season.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 14, 2015
Abe offers $4 billion in aid for global disaster-control efforts
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Saturday Japan will offer $4 billion in aid for global efforts to improve disaster management over the four years through 2018, including support for building infrastructure in developing countries.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 10, 2015
Tackle disaster risk through a coalition of the willing
While we cannot prevent another tsunami, we can build better safeguards that will offer greater protection for future generations.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 13, 2015
Hollande wins top marks for crisis handling — for now
Somber, genuinely moved and attuned to the mood of the people, President Francois Hollande is set for a popularity boost after getting rare top marks from local media and analysts for his handling of France's worst attacks in decades. But there is no guarantee this will last.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 4, 2015
Asia's bad to good for 2014
Find out who or what in Asia were honored for having the worst, bad, good and best year in 2014.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 11, 2014
Japan asks China to move forward on maritime hotline
Japan has asked China to hold talks soon on the launch of a maritime crisis management mechanism after their leaders agreed to work together to avert unforeseen events in and around the Senkaku Islands, Defense Minister Akinori Eto said Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 30, 2014
To err on the side of caution
It is not fair to underestimate compensation for disaster damage in the name of general interest. This is an area where ordinary cost calculations should be discarded.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 15, 2014
Japan imposes asset freeze on North Korean shipping firm
The government on Friday froze the assets of the operator of a North Korean ship seized for smuggling arms, the Foreign Ministry announced, just as Tokyo is engaged in talks with Pyongyang to return Japanese citizens kidnapped decades ago by North Korean agents.
BUSINESS
Aug 15, 2014
20% in Japan willing to work under merit-based system without overtime pay: poll
About 20 percent of working men and women who responded to a recent Internet survey said they would like to work under a performance-based system without overtime pay, as proposed by the government.
JAPAN
Aug 4, 2014
8% of employees in charge of corporate data admit mismanagement: Trend Micro poll
Nearly 8 percent of employees in charge of handling classified corporate data have experiences in taking such data outside, according to a survey by anti-virus software maker Trend Micro Inc.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 22, 2014
University is not a business
Members of the Industrial Competitiveness Council and others are headed down a dead-end road trying to remake the governance of Japan's universities after that of business corporations.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 1, 2014
Obama's cold-eyed 'management' of policy
The White House faces a strange conundrum. Polls show that many Americans want a foreign policy that does not go out looking for fights and Obama is delivering on that. Yet his approval ratings remain generally low.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 23, 2014
Delisted Seibu Holdings back on TSE
Seibu Holdings Inc. made a solid return to the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday, nearly a decade after its predecessor, Seibu Railway Co., was delisted from the bourse for falsifying financial statements in 2004.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 7, 2014
Sony revision spurs credibility crisis for Hirai
Kazuo Hirai, who took the helm at Sony Corp. two years ago to revive the Japanese icon, is losing credibility with investors who think he's not up to the job.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 30, 2014
Fukoku also warns of wilting yen
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's weakening of the yen through stimulus measures may be in danger of becoming too much of a good thing, according to Fukoku Capital Management Inc.
COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM EUROPE
Dec 14, 2013
Leaders from outside box could ignite Japan
On Nov. 30, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company shocked Japan Inc. by announcing that it plans to appoint Frenchman Christophe Weber as its next president by June 2014. Until then, Japanese companies with foreigners in the top spot had fallen into two categories: those that promote foreigners who have performed well in-house, and those owned by foreign capital or with a large foreign shareholder.
BUSINESS
Dec 2, 2013
Nippon Life unit faces fine
The brokerage industry watchdog was expected to recommend that the Financial Services Agency order a Nippon Life Insurance Co. subsidiary to pay a fine for insider trading on unreleased information, market sources said Monday.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 13, 2013
MRI investor meeting draws over 1,500 to Tokyo
More than 1,500 people from across Japan showed up for a jam-packed meeting Sunday organized by lawyers who accuse U.S asset manager MRI International Inc. of conducting a ¥130 billion fraud.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 10, 2013
Mazda, back in black, will replace chief
Mazda Motor Corp., which relies on exports more than any other Japanese carmaker, said Thursday that Takashi Yamanouchi will step down as president next month to make way for younger managers now that it has returned to profitability.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 31, 2013
Glacial change slow to heat up Japan's economy
The Japanese manager was once portrayed as a fearless samurai ready to take on the world. This was when Western companies and management scholars woke up to the presence of a potent competitor outside the Western world.
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.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
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.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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