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BUSINESS
Jul 26, 2007

Nintendo profit jumps fivefold on surging sales

Surging sales of the Wii and DS video game players lifted Nintendo's quarterly profit fivefold, prompting the company to raise its annual earnings forecast 40 percent.
BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2007

Canon breaks records for net profit and sales

Canon Inc. said Monday that net profit rose 18.5 percent to a record 455.3 billion yen in 2006 as sales broke 4 trillion yen for the first time on robust interest in digital cameras and color laser printers and copiers.
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2006

Strong sales, weak yen give Isuzu record profit

Isuzu Motor Ltd. on Monday reported record profit for the first half of fiscal 2006 mainly led by brisk sales, cost-reduction efforts and a weak yen.
BUSINESS
Aug 1, 2006

Flash-memory sales fuel turnaround for Toshiba

Toshiba Corp. on Monday posted a group net profit of 4.0 billion yen for the April-June period, improving from a group net loss of 8.9 billion yen the previous year thanks to brisk sales in flash-memory products.
BUSINESS
Jul 4, 2006

First-half auto sales finally lose grip on 2 million

Domestic sales of new motor vehicles excluding minivehicles from January to June totaled 1.99 million units, marking the first time in 23 years that first-half sales have failed to break 2 million, an industry body said Monday.
BUSINESS
Mar 30, 2006

Retail sales rose 1% in February

Retail sales rose 1 percent to 9.86 trillion yen in February compared with the previous year as fuel prices continued to rise and new minivehicles sold well, the government said in a preliminary report Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 25, 2006

Grocers, retailers suffer fall in sales

Sales at supermarkets fell 2.5 percent in January from the year before on a same-store basis while department store sales dipped 0.4 percent, industry groups said Friday.
BUSINESS
Aug 6, 2005

Sapporo, Asahi lower projections over slow sales

Leading brewers Sapporo Holdings Ltd. and Asahi Breweries Ltd. said Friday they have lowered their earnings projections for the current business year due to slower-than-expected sales of beerlike alcoholic beverages.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 22, 2004

Toyota sets sales target of 8 million cars in 2005

Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday it is aiming to sell 8.03 million vehicles worldwide in calendar 2005, the first time the nation's top automaker has released a sales target of more than 8 million units.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 3, 2004

Brisk overseas sales offset Fuso's domestic slide

MAKUHARI, Chiba Pref. -- Scandal-tainted Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp. will be able to weather a plunge in domestic sales with brisk overseas sales, in terms of volume, for the year ending next March, Fuso President Wilfried Porth said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2004

Honda, Toyota, Mazda sales up; MMC, Nissan fall

Three of the nation's five top automakers increased domestic sales in the first half of fiscal 2004, but scandal-hit Mitsubishi Motors Corp. suffered a record decline, according to data released by the five companies Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 25, 2004

Store sales slide for third month

Supermarket and department store sales fell in May from a year earlier on a same-store basis for the third straight month mainly due to bad weather, according to industry data released Thursday.
BUSINESS
Apr 9, 2004

Ito-Yokado trumped by Aeon

Ito-Yokado Co. lost its position as Japan's No. 1 retailer to Aeon Co. in terms of group sales in the year that ended Feb. 29.
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2004

Sales of imported vehicles dip 1%

Sales of imported motor vehicles fell 1 percent in January from a year earlier to 15,334 units.
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2004

Sharp third-quarter profit buoyed by LCD TV sales

Sharp Corp. said Monday its net profit for the October-December quarter rose 27 percent to 17.76 billion yen on strong sales of liquid crystal display TVs and cell phone handsets.
BUSINESS
Jun 25, 2003

Department store sales continue to fall

Sales at department stores in Japan fell 3.2 percent on a same-store basis in May from a year earlier to 633.2 billion yen, down for the 14th consecutive month, the Japan Department Stores Association said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
May 15, 2003

Tokyo department store sales drop

Tokyo department store sales fell 5.6 percent in April from a year earlier to 157.21 billion yen, down for the 17th consecutive month, an industry body said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
May 14, 2003

NTT back in the black but sales on the slide

NTT Corp. on Tuesday reported a consolidated net profit of 233.36 billion yen for the business year to March 31, marking a dramatic turnaround from its 834.67 billion yen group net loss in fiscal 2001.
BUSINESS
Apr 29, 2003

Combined wholesale, retail sales down 2.2% last year

Combined wholesale and retail sales fell 2.2 percent in fiscal 2002 from the previous year to 581.37 trillion yen, logging a second consecutive year of decline and underscoring the continued deflationary trend, the government said Monday.
BUSINESS
Apr 22, 2003

Mobile phone sales dropped 3% in 2002

Domestic mobile phone sales in 2002 dropped 3 percent from the previous year to 39.39 million units for the second straight year of decline, Gartner Japan Ltd. said Monday.
BUSINESS
Apr 5, 2003

Imported car sales surged last year

Sales of automobiles built overseas rose 2.5 percent in fiscal 2002 from the previous year to 279,381 units, marking the first increase in two years, the Japan Automobile Importers Association said Friday.
BUSINESS
Jul 31, 2002

As plasma-display TVs come down in price, sales go up

After an inauspicious debut just a few years ago, plasma-display TVs have become one of the hottest home appliances around.
BUSINESS
Jul 30, 2002

Toyota raises outlook for global sales by 5%

Toyota Motor Corp. has raised its 2002 global sales projection from 5.3 million units to 5.5 million, up 5 percent from last year, Toyota President Fujio Cho said Monday.
BUSINESS
Jun 22, 2002

Honda, Nissan increase sales as rivals' pace slows

Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. posted increases in domestic auto sales in May, while the three other major Japanese automakers saw their sales slip, according to data released Friday by the carmakers.

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