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EDITORIALS
May 17, 2007

Toyota on a roll

Toyota Motor Corp. has become the first Japanese company to top the 2 trillion yen mark in operating profits. The leading automaker's operating profit for the 2006 business year to March 2007 surged 19.2 percent from the previous year to 2.24 trillion yen, a new record for the seventh straight year....
BUSINESS
May 10, 2007

Toyota profit hits record 2.24 trillion yen

Toyota Motor Corp. became the first Japanese firm to top the 2 trillion yen line in profits, driven by brisk sales in North America and Europe and the weaker yen.
BUSINESS
Apr 28, 2007

NTT DoCoMo profit falls 25%

NTT DoCoMo Inc. said Friday that its net profit fell 25.1 percent from the previous year to 457.3 billion yen in business 2006, due partly to increased sales promotion costs.
BUSINESS
Apr 28, 2007

Citigroup bags Nikko Cordial for 920 billion yen

Citigroup Inc. announced Friday its public tender offer for scandal-tainted Nikko Cordial Corp. has succeeded, resulting in the biggest buyout -- at 920 billion yen -- of a Japanese firm by a foreign company.
BUSINESS
Apr 27, 2007

Nissan logs double-digit profit drop in '06

Nissan Motor Co. on Thursday reported a double-digit drop in profit for the business year ended March 31, marking its first full-year dip since Carlos Ghosn took charge in 1999.
BUSINESS
Apr 27, 2007

Wii, DS boost Nintendo earnings 77%

Booming sales of the popular Wii and DS game machines lifted Nintendo Co.'s earnings 77 percent for its 2006 business year, showing the Japanese maker is holding its own against bigger rivals Sony and Microsoft.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 26, 2007

Tesco opens first supermarket in Japan

British retail giant Tesco PLC opened its first supermarket in Japan in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, on Wednesday, looking to challenge the notion that foreign retailers cannot win the hearts of consumers in the world's second-largest retail market.
BUSINESS
Apr 25, 2007

Nikko Cordial's fraud sends 2006 profits down

Profits of Nikko Cordial Corp. plunged in the 2006 business year, according to the firm's financial statements released Tuesday, affected by the brokerage's involvement in an accounting scandal.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 14, 2007

Fujiya warns of 6.7 billion yen net loss from safety scandal

Scandal-tainted confectioner Fujiya Co. said Tuesday it expects to post a group net loss of 6.7 billion yen for the business year ending this month, reversing its initial forecast of an 800 million yen net profit, due to food safety problems that forced it to shut down production.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2007

Brewers see mixed results as beer thirsts turn flat

Major Japanese brewers had mixed earnings results in 2006, with their performance largely determined by the sales of low-cost, beerlike drinks.
JAPAN
Jan 27, 2007

Horie ends trial in defiant, tearful plea

Livedoor Co. founder Takafumi Horie broke into tears during the closing arguments of his high-profile trial Friday, claiming prosecutors lacked impartiality and overlooked evidence in their drive to have him found guilty.
Japan Times
LIFE
Jan 14, 2007

Get out of this world

Forget Hawaii, Hong Kong, Bali, Britain or Paris -- before too long your family vacation choices will include staying at space hotels or taking a 10-day spin around the moon.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 28, 2006

Murakami's influence will linger

Yoshiaki Murakami's arrest was one of the biggest financial scandals of 2006, but the nation's best-known shareholder activist has played a pivotal role in persuading Japanese managers to be more attentive to shareholder interests, according to Marc Goldstein, head of Institutional Shareholder Services...
BUSINESS
Dec 16, 2006

'Tankan' rise fuels rate hike talk

Business confidence at large manufacturers rose slightly in the three months to December, according to the Bank of Japan's quarterly "tankan" survey released Friday, fueling speculation the central bank's second interest rate hike in about six years could come next month.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Dec 9, 2006

Yoshiyuki Iwamoto

Yoshiyuki Iwamoto recently published in New York a book in English.

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