Word: nippon
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...Numbers 10,000 Number of passengers on All Nippon Airways and Japan Air Lines who have canceled flights to China because of anti-Japanese demonstrations...
...successful Internet firms, last year shocked the country's calcified baseball establishment by offering to buy the ailing Osaka-based Kintetsu Buffaloes. The owners rebuffed him as a punk. Now Horie has set the business community buzzing with a hostile-takeover battle against Fuji Television Network for radio network Nippon Broadcasting. Japan's aversion to such battles, Horie retorts, is out of touch with modern capitalism. --By Jim Frederick...
Executives at Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), the world's largest telecommunications company, admit they've been watching the merger wave now engulfing U.S. phone companies with a sense of foreboding. Especially unnerving was the announcement earlier this month that 130-year-old AT&T, the American former monopoly carrier that not long ago was the oldest, biggest and baddest telecom firm on the planet, was about to be swallowed up by upstart regional player SBC?providing a sobering reminder that in the information age, no institution is too big to fail if it squanders its competitive edge...
Troubled aerospace giant Boeing finally gained altitude when Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) announced it would order 50 7E7 planes--Boeing's first new commercial jetliner in more than a decade. It's also the first Boeing jet with a foreign airline as the launch customer. The 7E7 is a midsize plane with about 250 seats. Take-off date: 2008. Although the plane retails for $120 million, launch customers traditionally get a hefty discount. The news comes at a crucial time. Boeing last year stopped making the 26-year-old 757 and might halt the 717 and 767 production...
...story on Japan's economic recovery [April 12], we said that the 2003 steel production for Nippon Steel's Kimitsu Works was 925 million tons and that the Japanese government's yen intervention from the start of this year amounted to $900 billion. The numbers should have read 9.25 million and $95 billion, respectively...