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BY JULIAN RYALL

JAPAN Tobacco, the third-largest tobacco company in the world, is opposed to a proposal from a cross-party group of politicians in the company’s home country to more than double the price of a pack of cigarettes.

Yoko Komiyama, a member of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, which effectively controls the upper house of the country’s parliament said the group will call for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) government to raise the price of a pack of 20 cigarettes from around Yen 300 (US$2.74) at present to between Yen 600 and Yen 1,000.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, JAMES BURNS, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA and PHILIPPA JONES

"IT is better to be beautiful than to be good," wrote Oscar Wilde in ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’. Many cosmetics and personal care companies worldwide may still believe this statement to be true, but being, or at least claiming to be, "good" has become an essential part of the sector’s public image.…

BY GAVIN BLAIR

LATER this year Japan’s Shochiku film studio and Fuji TV will collaborate on a new format that will see the story of "Akai Ito" (‘red thread’ in English) start with a TV drama, be continued in a movie, before the action returns to the small screen for the finale.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SOUTH Korea has recalled its Tokyo ambassador over the ownership of some Sea of Japan islands geologists think could lie amidst natural gas fields. Seoul claims a new Japanese schoolbook alleges Japanese sovereignty over the Dokdo (in Korean) or Takeshima (in Japanese) islands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has reduced from Euro 99 million to Euro 74.25 million a fine levied by the European Commission against German preservatives manufacturer Hoechst for its participation in a cartel. It was alleged Hoechst helped fix markets for preservative sorbates with Japanese firms Chisso, Daicel, Nippon Synthetic and Ueno.…

BY DOMINIQUE PATTON and KARRYN CARTELLE

EAST Asian markets are increasingly important to global haircare manufacturers, with growing prosperity enabling many more women to buy the products they really want for their hair. As a result, major companies really need to pay attention to what east Asian women want.…

BY GAVIN BLAIR

WHAT does the overworked, overstressed, sleep-deprived Japanese salaryman reach for the morning after a late-night drinking session with his boss, to get him through another long day at the office? When a can of hot or cold coffee from one of nation’s million-odd vending machines just won’t do the trick, it has to be one of a multitude of ‘genki’ (energetic, lively) drinks on the market.…

BY MARK ROWE and GAVIN BLAIR

WHILE the idea of using nano-titanium particles to enable textiles to "self-clean" is not new, the applications to which this technology is being applied and enhanced are increasing almost daily. A number of products are currently being designed or put on the open market in Europe and the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

Key wild species in the sea waters of the Canadian Arctic are Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossides); pink shrimp (Pandalus borealis); striped shrimp (Pandalus montagui); and for fresh water catches, Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus).

Greenland halibut (also called Greenland turbot) has dense, white flesh and a sweet, rich flavour.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A new Japanese national law has come into effect whereby companies and local

governments must now measure the waistlines of Japanese people between the

ages of 40 and 74 as part of their annual checkups.

Those exceeding government limits – 33.5 inches for men and 35.4 inches for

women, will be given dieting guidance if after three months they do not lose

weight.…