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SUMITOMO METAL

BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 7, 2015
Sumitomo Metal Mining cuts profit target as China demand slows
Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., the largest domestic nickel producer, cut its first-half profit forecast as China's slower demand weakens commodity prices more than anticipated, the company said in a statement Friday.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
May 20, 2015
Hoop hero Okayama reflects on lost chance
Long before recent international Japanese basketball stars like Yuta Tabuse, Yuki Togashi and Yuta Watanabe, there was Yasutaka Okayama, who might have made a name for himself the same way they did.
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2014
Over a dozen workers injured in blast at Nippon Steel plant in Aichi
More than a dozen steelworkers were injured when a coke oven blew up at a Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. factory in Tokai, Aichi Prefecture, police said Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 16, 2014
Toyota to delay deliveries after 23,000 vehicles are covered in soot
Toyota Motor Corp. expects to delay delivery of about 23,000 vehicles by up to a month while it cleans up soot from a Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. plant in Aichi Prefecture.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 16, 2014
Vice President Shindo to take helm of world's No. 2 steel maker NSSMC
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. will name Vice President Kosei Shindo as president on April 1, replacing Hiroshi Tomono, the company said on Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2013
One dead, three hurt in blast at plant
One person died and two others sustained injuries and were taken to a hospital after an explosion Monday at Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp.'s Yahata plant in Fukuoka Prefecture, according to the local fire department.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 18, 2013
Steel maker to pay if Korean ruling upheld
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal will comply if South Korea's top court upholds a compensation ruling for four Koreans forced to work for its predecessors during the war.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 14, 2013
Nippon Steel to halt furnaces, lines at four iron mills
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. will halt operations of blast furnace and production lines at its four iron mills in Japan as part of efforts to streamline its business.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 13, 2013
Steelmaker to halt Kimitsu blast furnace
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. will halt operations at a blast furnace at its iron mill in Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture, sources said Tuesday.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Yen swings stir talk that Japan is in the FX market once again
An electronic screen in Tokyo displays the yen exchange rate against the U.S. dollar and the graph showing its recent swings, on Thursday.
Harajuku strives to reclaim its former glory — and surpass it
Laforet Harajuku, which celebrated its 45th anniversary last year, has been a witness to the district's evolution over the years.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Japan's May 1 intervention may have cost ¥3.66 trillion, BOJ data suggests
An electronic screen displays a graph showing Japanese yen exchange rates surging against the dollar amid signs of intervention by authorities, in Tokyo on Thursday.
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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