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BUSINESS
Nov 11, 2009

KDDI may miss profit and sales targets, CFO Nagao says

KDDI Corp. may miss its profit and revenue targets because of falling handset sales and charges to reorganize fixed-line networks, Chief Financial Officer Satoshi Nagao said.
BUSINESS
Sep 2, 2009

Toyota, Honda lead rise in car sales

Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. led the first rise in domestic auto sales in 13 months as government incentives and new hybrid models boosted demand, industry data showed Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jul 11, 2009

Sekisui banks on subsidies to boost sales of solar houses

Sekisui House Ltd. expects sales of its small houses powered by sunlight to rise fivefold in two years as buyers take advantage of government subsidies encouraging the use of renewable energy.
BUSINESS
Jul 3, 2009

Seven & I profit declines 28% as supermarket sales fall off

Seven & I Holdings Co. said its profit fell 28 percent in the three months that ended in May on slumping supermarket and department-store sales.
BUSINESS
May 29, 2009

Toyota, Nissan gear down

Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. led a drop in global auto production as sales in North America plunged amid rising unemployment.
BUSINESS
Mar 28, 2009

Retail sales fall 5.8%; biggest dive since '02

Retail sales retreated by the biggest margin in seven years in February, the government said Friday, as growing concerns about jobs and wages deepened the country's shopping slump.
BUSINESS
Mar 18, 2009

Shiseido to bolster Chinese sales with inland expansion

Shiseido Co. aims to maintain annual sales growth of more than 20 percent in China by expanding distribution into inland provinces, the company said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Dec 30, 2008

Premium burger sales sizzle in recession

Despite of, or maybe because of, the recession, hamburger chains are doing a brisk business as they introduce premium fare.
BUSINESS
Oct 18, 2008

Wii sales rise 37% despite lull

U.S. sales of Nintendo Co.'s Wii video-game console rose 37 percent in September as the industry overall — including hardware and games — shrank for the first time in more than two years.
BUSINESS
Mar 19, 2008

Eli Lilly sees 11% sales jump in '08

Eli Lilly & Co., the world's biggest maker of psychiatric medicines, said Tuesday it expects revenue in Japan to increase 11 percent this year, spurred by sales of its antipsychotic drug, Zyprexa.
BUSINESS
Sep 4, 2007

Honda, Mazda lead drop in August domestic vehicle sales

Honda Motor Co. and Mazda Motor Corp. led a drop in domestic regular vehicle sales in August, the 26th straight monthly decline, as a less stable labor market continued to discourage people from buying new cars.
BUSINESS
Jul 26, 2007

Sharp profit advances on LCD sales

Sharp Corp. reported Wednesday that its first-quarter profit rose 1.4 percent, driven by sales of LCD TVs and mobile phones.
BUSINESS
Jul 26, 2007

Honda raises forecast on strong U.S. sales, weak yen

Honda Motor Co., Japan's second-largest carmaker, said Wednesday it raised its full-year profit forecast after demand for fuel-efficient models in the U.S. and a weaker yen boosted first-quarter profit 16 percent.
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.
Tottori takes a bold leap forward in the arts
The city of Kurayoshi in Tottori Prefecture celebrated the opening of its public art museum with festivities such as a parade that drew 1,000 revelers.
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.
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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