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BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2004

Camera sales boost Canon earnings

Canon Inc. on Thursday said its net profit grew 45 percent in 2003, buoyed by robust digital camera sales and a cost-cutting drive.
BUSINESS
Jan 29, 2004

Wholesalers' sales up 0.1%

Wholesaler sales edged up 0.1 percent in 2003 from the previous year to 452.14 trillion yen, marking the first rise in three years, the government said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jan 27, 2004

Store sales slide for seventh straight year

Sales at supermarkets dropped 3.2 percent in 2003 from the previous year, and sales at department stores fell 2.8 percent, according to industry figures released Monday.
BUSINESS
Jun 26, 2003

Appliance sales record fresh slide

Sales at major retailers of electric home appliances fell 4.7 percent in May from a year earlier to 166.7 billion yen, marking the ninth straight monthly drop, the Nippon Electric Big-Stores Association said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2003

Sales fall at companies' offshore subsidiaries

Sales at overseas subsidiaries operated by Japanese firms fell 0.8 percent in yen terms in the January-March period, according to the results of a government survey released Monday.
BUSINESS
Apr 29, 2003

Matsushita logs net loss despite sharp sales rise

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Monday it posted a group net loss of 19.45 billion yen for fiscal 2002, the second straight year its ink has run red.
BUSINESS
Mar 26, 2003

Department store sales slide 0.5%

Department store sales fell 0.5 percent on a same-store basis in February from a year earlier for the 11th consecutive monthly decline, the Japan Department Stores Association said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 1, 2003

Honda saw record sales, profits in third quarter

Honda Motor Co. reported record sales and record profits on a consolidated basis for the October-December period, thanks to thriving car sales in overseas markets, company officials said Friday.
BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2002

Tokyo department store sales slide 5.7%

Sales at department stores in Tokyo logged a year-on-year decline of 5.7 percent in July on a same-store basis, dropping to 192.28 billion yen, according to a report released Thursday by the Japan Department Stores Association.
BUSINESS
May 18, 2002

Fuji Heavy logs profit, record sales

Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. announced Friday that its group profit increased for the first time in two years and that it logged record consolidated sales in the 2001 business year, due to cost cuts and the weakened yen.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 10, 2002

Nissan eyes big global sales boost

Nissan Motor Co. chief Carlos Ghosn announced Thursday the carmaker will add 1 million units to its global sales by the end of the 2004 business year by launching at least 28 new models worldwide.
BUSINESS
May 2, 2002

Car, bus, truck sales down 2.7%

Sales of cars, trucks and buses in April fell 2.7 percent from a year earlier to 265,454 units, marking the eighth consecutive month of decline, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 16, 2002

Department store sales slipped 5.7% in February

Sales at Tokyo department stores fell 5.7 percent in February from the previous year to 142.2 billion yen, the Japan Department Stores Association said in a preliminary report Friday.
BUSINESS
Feb 7, 2002

Imported vehicle sales fell 4.9% in January

Domestic sales of imported vehicles dropped 4.9 percent in January from a year earlier to 15,000 units, marking a fifth consecutive month of decline, the Japan Automobile Importers Association said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jan 26, 2002

Sony sales hit quarterly high

Sony Corp. said Friday its consolidated sales in the October-December period hit a record quarterly high, helped partly by brisk yearend sales.
BUSINESS
Aug 14, 2001

Firms seek protection from fickle weather that swings sales

The current spell of sweltering weather has constituted a breath of fresh air for a wide range of businesses, boosting sales of items such as air conditioners, summer clothes, ice cream, beer and soft drinks.
BUSINESS
Jun 29, 2001

Global sales, restructuring fuel Nissan's revival

Two of the mostly eagerly awaited financial reports this year were those of Nissan Motor Co. and Snow Brand Milk Products Co.
BUSINESS
May 25, 2001

Domestic sales rise at Toyota, Nissan, Honda

Three of Japan's five major automakers registered domestic sales expansions in April thanks to new models, according to data released Thursday.
BUSINESS
May 24, 2001

Honda merges sales units

Honda Motor Co. said Wednesday it will merge three subsidiaries to form a new motorcycle sales unit in August to strengthen its domestic bike business.
BUSINESS
Mar 28, 2001

Wholesale, retail sales slide 1.2%

Combined sales by Japanese retailers and wholesalers slipped 1.2 percent in February from a year before to 42.27 trillion yen, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 27, 2000

Surging arms sales exacerbate Third World poverty

NEW YORK -- In recent public statements, world leaders such as the pope, U.S. President Bill Clinton and World Bank President James Wolfensohn have called attention to the urgent need to end world poverty. Almost lost among their proposals to remedy the situation was any mention of the need to curb arms...
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2000

Imported car sales fell 6.8% in July

Sales of imported motor vehicles in Japan fell 6.8 percent in July from a year earlier to 22,050 units, snapping a two-month rising streak, the Japan Automobile Importers Association announced on Friday.
BUSINESS
May 25, 2000

Suzuki '99 sales set record but group pretax profits fall

Suzuki Motor Corp. scored record sales on a consolidated basis for fiscal 1999, but its group pretax profits fell due the strengthening of the yen, company executives announced Wednesday.
BUSINESS
May 13, 2000

Honda reports decline in pretax profit and sales

Honda Motor Co. on Friday reported the first declines in six years in both pretax profit and sales on a consolidated basis for fiscal 1999, due chiefly to the yen's appreciation and rising costs of research and development.
BUSINESS
Jan 11, 2000

Minicar sales hit record high in '99

Sales of new minicars in 1999 jumped 21.2 percent from the previous year to 1.88 million units, the highest annual figure since the Japan Mini Vehicles Association started taking statistics in 1967, the association said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 30, 1999

Commercial sales fall for 25th month in row

Domestic commercial sales fell 4.7 percent in July to 46.25 trillion yen from the same month a year ago, marking the 25th consecutive month of declining sales, according to a preliminary report issued Monday by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
JAPAN
May 14, 1999

Honda posts record sales, profits for fiscal '98

Thanks to growing sales in the North American market, Honda Motor Co. set new record highs both in consolidated sales and profits in fiscal 1998, despite dwindling sales at home, Honda officials said Friday.
JAPAN
Dec 17, 1998

Auto sales headed below 6 million units

Domestic automobile sales for 1998 are now projected to drop 12.3 percent from last year to 5.9 million units, slipping below the 6 million level for the first time in 12 years, an industry group said on Thursday.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 1998

Imported auto sales drop 16.9% in 17th down month

The nation's imported vehicle sales dropped 16.9 percent in August to 15,597 units from the same period last year, down for the 17th straight month, the Japan Automobile Importers Association announced Friday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 11, 2022

Japan beer sales fell 32% in October following price hikes

Year on year sales decreased both for household consumption and for restaurants and bars.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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