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BUSINESS
Jul 26, 2008

Record quarterly profit can't dispel Honda's pessimism

Honda Motor Co. said Friday its group net profit rose 8.1 percent in the first quarter of business 2008 — but only because a technical factor pushed up profits that were eroded by the yen's appreciation and soaring raw materials costs.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 26, 2008

Mazda resurgent as Ford finds need for small autos

Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally's crisis is Mazda Motor Corp. CEO Hisakazu Imaki's opportunity.
BUSINESS
Jul 17, 2008

Toyota buys land in Brazil for plant, studies plans to build compacts

Toyota Motor Corp. is acquiring land in Brazil for a new factory and is studying plans to build compact vehicles there in 2011 or later — the latest move in the aggressive drive by automakers in emerging markets.
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2008

Toyota, Nissan lead production gains

Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co., Japan's largest and third-largest carmakers, led a rise in domestic output last month, as overseas demand boosted exports.
BUSINESS
May 29, 2008

Otsuka to buy 49% of French water bottler

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., the maker of Pocari Sweat sports drinks, will spend ¥120 billion for 49 percent of French water bottler Alma as it seeks to counter slowing drink sales at home.
Japan Times
JAPAN / AFRICA LIFELINE
May 27, 2008

Investors looking beyond raw materials to consumers

Japan and its trading houses have scrambled in recent years to court resource-rich African countries as competition has intensified with Europe and China to secure natural resources and raw materials prices have surged with the demand of rapidly growing emerging economies.
BUSINESS
May 24, 2008

Nippon Sheet sees 60% profit drop

Nippon Sheet Glass Co., the world's biggest maker of car windows, forecast its first profit decline in five years on energy costs and falling prices in Europe, its largest market following its 2006 acquisition of Pilkington PLC.
EDITORIALS
May 14, 2008

Toyota, too, subject to gravity

Toyota Motor Corp. posted record sales and profits in the 2007 business year ended March 31, 2008, but is likely to suffer a 30 percent decline in operating profit for the current business year (ending March 31, 2009) — its first decline in nine years.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 10, 2008

JAL's group profit soars amid cost cuts

Japan Airlines Corp. said Friday that its group operating profit more than quadrupled to ¥90.01 billion for the business year that ended March 31, helped by its cost-cutting efforts amid surging fuel costs.
BUSINESS
May 2, 2008

JT expects loss from 'gyoza' aftermath

Japan Tobacco Inc. said Thursday it expects group operating profit for the business year to March 2009 to fall 27.8 percent from a year earlier to ¥311 billion because of the lingering impact of the tainted Chinese dumplings scare.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / TAKING A CHANCE
Apr 29, 2008

Seller of educational toys finds a niche

With relatively few parks to run around in, many children spend long hours either at cram schools or playing their hand-held game consoles.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 8, 2008

See it on catwalk, buy it through cell phone

Screams erupted from 22,000 young women in flowery frills, boots, really short shorts and glittery jewelry whenever a model — dressed similarly — waltzed down the runway in a Tokyo stadium.
BUSINESS
Apr 4, 2008

Kirin confirms interest in Aussie milk processor

Kirin Holdings Co. said Thursday it has its eye on Dairy Farmers after the Australian Financial Review reported it bid $900 million Australian dollars (¥84 billion) for the milk processor.
BUSINESS
Feb 28, 2008

Honda chief upbeat on prospects for fuel-efficient vehicles in U.S. market

Despite growing worries over a recession in the United States, Honda Motor Co. President Takeo Fukui said Wednesday he is not pessimistic about the prospects for its biggest automobile market.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / TAKING A CHANCE
Feb 22, 2008

Tofu maker finds success through innovation, determination

Many of Japan's small and medium-size companies are feeling the pinch as they struggle to pass rising costs on to their larger corporate customers. One, however, Saitama-based tofu maker Shinozakiya Inc., succeeded in getting supermarkets to swallow a 30 percent increase in wholesale prices in November....
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2008

Japan Tobacco stands to lose billions due to 'gyoza' food-poisoning scare

Japan Tobacco Inc. said Thursday it may lose billions of yen in earnings due to the food-poisoning scare linked to pesticide found in made-in-China frozen "gyoza" dumplings imported by one of its subsidiaries.
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2008

Takeda to purchase local Amgen unit

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Japan's largest drugmaker, agreed to buy the local unit of Amgen Inc., gaining cancer and arthritis medicines.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 29, 2008

Toyota beats GM in global output

Toyota may have fallen short of General Motors in global vehicle sales last year, but it beat its U.S. rival in another measure — global vehicle production.
BUSINESS
Jan 26, 2008

KDDI third-quarter profit up 25%

KDDI Corp., Japan's second-biggest mobile-phone operator, reported a third-quarter profit rise of 25 percent as the carrier gained customers.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Dec 18, 2007

Japan has its Christmas cake and eats it, too

'Tis the jolly holiday season and the streets are filled with bright illumination, sparkling decorations and cheerful Christmas songs to mark the big day next week.

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