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BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2012

JFE-IHI ship merger aims for ¥500 billion in sales

JFE Holdings Inc. and IHI Corp. will seek to increase sales of their combined shipbuilding units by about 30 percent in five years to fend off competition from South Korean and Chinese rivals.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2011

Komatsu's Japan sales up as China slips

Komatsu Ltd., the world's second-largest construction machinery maker, said Japan's bid to rebuild from its worst postwar disaster is spurring demand at home amid slumping sales in China, its biggest market.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 2, 2010

Tomy targets big holiday sales in U.S.

Toy maker Tomy Co. is hoping to score a comeback in the U.S. this Christmas with toy trains and cars that boast a 40-year history in Japan but failed previously to catch on abroad.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2010

Gaming sales drop 10% in U.S.

Nintendo Co.'s DS hand-held players and Wii consoles led a 10 percent decline in U.S. video game hardware and software sales in August, according to market researcher NPD Group Inc.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 12, 2010

DoCoMo may beat smart phone sales target, CFO says

NTT DoCoMo Inc. may exceed its April target for 1 million sales of smart phones this business year, helped by demand for Sony Ericsson's Xperia handset.
BUSINESS
May 29, 2010

April good for car production, sales

Japan's biggest automakers posted major production and sales gains in April, as robust growth in China and elsewhere in Asia continued to fuel demand.
BUSINESS
Apr 7, 2010

Prius topped auto sales in March for 11th month

Toyota's Prius hybrid was Japan's top-selling car in March for the 11th straight month despite massive recall woes, an industry group said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 30, 2010

Retail sales up 4.2%, biggest rise since '97

Retail sales gained at their fastest pace in more than a decade in February as the economic recovery spread to households, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Monday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 17, 2009

Aeon sits on same-store sales data

Aeon Co., Japan's second-largest retailer, won't release same-store sales figures in 2010 because restructuring will mean comparisons with previous years won't be useful for investors, President Motoya Okada said.
BUSINESS
Jun 16, 2009

Low gasoline prices may put damper on Honda's U.S. Insight sales forecast

Honda Motor Co. may miss its U.S. sales target for the Insight hybrid because cheap fuel and consumer reluctance to buy cars amid the recession are hampering its efforts to loosen Toyota Motor Corp.'s grip on the green market. Sales of Honda's gasoline-electric Insight, which debuted at U.S. dealerships...
BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2009

Domestic sales of vehicles fell 19% in May

Toyota Motor Corp. led a 19 percent drop in domestic vehicle sales in May as falling wages and rising unemployment kept people out of dealer showrooms.
BUSINESS
May 22, 2009

Tax cuts not helping car sales: JAMA

Vehicle sales this month are not getting a boost from government stimulus measures aimed at spurring demand for new, fuel-efficient cars, an industry group said.
U.S. tourist arrested after bringing a handgun into Japan
Hyogo police believe the handgun a U.S. tourist inadvertently brought into Japan slipped through security procedures at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture.
3D printer used to construct train station building in Japan
A train station building (front) is assembled from parts printed using 3D printer technology, in Arida, Wakayama Prefecture, on Wednesday.
Japan’s leader didn’t read the job description
Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader Shigeru Ishiba is facing a political funding scandal that has damaged his reputation and sparked speculation that internal efforts to remove him are underway.
Japan promises 'bold and speedy' response to Trump’s surprise 24% tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump unveils new U.S. tariffs at the White House in Washington on Wednesday.
Tokyo’s KK Line to close for decadelong overhaul as public greenway
People enjoy running and yoga on Tokyo Expressway’s KK Line, a 2-kilometer elevated expressway cutting through the capital’s commercial Ginza district, when it was opened as a pedestrian space in May last year.
Haruki Murakami TV adaptation revisits 30 years of watershed moments
Though Haruki Murakami's trademark whiff of offbeat existentialism is threaded throughout NHK's "After the Quake," the final episode — conceived as a sequel to the story "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" — is the most stylized, featuring an anthropomorphic talking frog (voiced by Non) and his erstwhile associate Katagiri (Koichi Sato).
Nintendo to launch the Switch 2 on June 5
The controllers for the Switch 2 will attach to the console magnetically rather than sliding on rails as with the original device.
A new human trafficking trend emerges from Myanmar scam centers
Victims of scam centers who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar gather at a compound inside KK Park, a fraud center on the country's border with Thailand, after a multinational crackdown in February.
Meiji says sayonara to bottled milk, a staple of Japan's bathhouses
Meiji bottled milk lined up in a fridge at Kosugiyu, a bathhouse in Tokyo. The sticker urges patrons to enjoy the milk one last time before it’s gone.
A Canadian made a weekend trip to Costco a Japanese pastime
Under the watchful eye of Ken Theriault, Costco representative director and Japan country manager, the American membership-model wholesaler has flourished in Japan.

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