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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 17, 2014
Former Bridgestone exec to plead guilty to price fixing
A former Japanese executive of major tire maker Bridgestone Corp. has agreed to plead guilty to his involvement in automobile parts price fixing in the United States, the Department of Justice said Wednesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Apr 14, 2014
Higher prices risk 'Abenomics' backlash
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's bid to vault Japan out of 15 years of deflation risks losing public support by spurring too much inflation too quickly as companies add extra price increases to this month's sales tax bump.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 28, 2014
Output soars most since 2011 ahead of tax hike
The nation's industrial production in January grew the most since 2011, indicating the economy is strengthening as a looming consumption tax bump stimulates demand, while inflation matched the highest level in more than five years.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2014
Ex-Denso exec to be jailed in U.S. over obstructing cartel probe
A former executive of Japanese auto parts maker Denso Corp. will be jailed in the United States after pleading guilty to obstructing a 2010 investigation of a price-fixing allegation, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 14, 2014
Peach stepping up efforts to hire pilots
Budget carrier Peach Aviation is stepping up efforts to win the competition for pilots as scores of new carriers enter the aviation market.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 27, 2013
Toyo Tire will pay $120 million U.S. cartel fine
Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $120 million fine for its role in price-fixing of automobile parts in the United States, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 25, 2013
CPI snaps out of four years of falling; 'Abenomics' lauded
The consumer price index snapped four years of declines in September, signaling progress in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's campaign to stamp out deflation and drive a sustained economic revival.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 30, 2013
Economy likely to suffer triple hit from simultaneous price, tax hikes
The economy is likely to take a hit from planned hikes in commodity and services prices, as well as pension system-related taxes from Tuesday as a threat from the rise in the consumption tax looms, economists say.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 11, 2013
August wholesale prices rise 2.4%
Wholesale prices logged a 2.4 percent year-on-year gain in August, backed by higher prices for electricity and crude oil caused by the government's weakening of the yen to stoke inflation, the Bank of Japan said Wednesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2013
Price of wheat to rise for third time under Abe
Wheat prices are poised to increase for the third time in a year, adding to inflation as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic stimulus weakens the yen and boosts costs.
BUSINESS
Jul 31, 2013
JPMorgan to settle market-rigging case
On March 14, 2011, Blythe Masters, head of JPMorgan Chase's global commodities group, asked one of her top deputies why California power officials were making ominous inquiries into the bank's arcane and lucrative business of selling electricity. Five months earlier, Masters had been given a spreadsheet predicting that this line of business would generate profits of $1.5 billion to $2 billion by 2018.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 26, 2013
Consumer prices rise at fastest pace since 2008: ministry data
Consumer prices in June rose the most since 2008, 0.4 percent from a year earlier, an early sign that Japan's economy may be starting to shake off deflation, the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry said Friday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 17, 2013
Kewpie to raise jam product prices for first time in 23 years
Kewpie Corp. said Wednesday it will raise prices on major jam products by 4 to 7 percent, starting with shipments on Sept. 2, due to higher costs of imported fruits amid the yen's depreciation against other currencies.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 1, 2013
'Abenomics' fallout: Food prices rise on weak yen but wages stay flat
Bitten by the yen's decline, Japanese food suppliers hike prices on wide range of items, dealing a blow to consumers waiting for their paychecks to rise under 'Abenomics.'
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 1, 2013
Apple raises product prices amid weakening yen
Apple Inc. has raised the prices of its iPad tablet computers and iPod music players here after a weaker yen boosted import costs.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 14, 2013
With yen at four-year low, Fujitsu to up PC prices
Fujitsu Ltd. plans to raise domestic prices for personal computers because the yen's drop to a four-year low is boosting the cost of importing components.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 19, 2013
McDonald's to hike prices for first time since 2008
McDonald's Japan warns that some burger prices will rise by as much as 25 percent next month to boost its sagging profitability.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 12, 2013
Prices outpace incomes as yen softens
Prices are rising before incomes are and thus consumers are feeling the pain of the yen's depreciation driven by 'Abenomics.'
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 13, 2013
Plan for 10% solar price cut retains incentives for boom
Japan's proposal to cut the price paid for solar power by 10 percent leaves in place incentives for a boom in installations this year, the industry's lobby group said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Oct 22, 2009
Comparative payoffs
Considering housing as an investment in Japan? You might want to compare the PER (price earnings ratio) in different areas.
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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