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BUSINESS
May 8, 2001

Komatsu profits halve on slow domestic sales

Komatsu Ltd. on Monday reported a consolidated net profit of 6.91 billion yen in fiscal 2000, down 48.4 percent from the previous year.
BUSINESS
Apr 28, 2001

Profits, group sales up for major firms

The five major electronics companies in Japan enjoyed increases in both group sales and consolidated operating profits in fiscal 2000, according to their earnings reports released Friday.
BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2001

February sales of new cars rise 2.4%

February saw 371,482 new cars sold, up 2.4 percent from February last year, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

Overseas sales lift JT to net profit

Japan Tobacco Inc. said Wednesday that it posted a net profit of $10 million in overseas cigarette sales in 2000, a turnaround from a net loss of $16 million the previous year.
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2001

Overseas sales lift JT to net profit

Japan Tobacco Inc. said Wednesday that it posted a net profit of $10 million in overseas cigarette sales in 2000, a turnaround from a net loss of $16 million the previous year.
BUSINESS
Dec 7, 2000

Imported vehicles post 3.3% monthly sales jump

Sales of imported motor vehicles in Japan rose 3.3 percent in November from a year earlier to 21,773 units, up for the fourth consecutive month, the Japan Automobile Importers Association said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 13, 2000

MITI to revise law on fraudulent sales

The Ministry of International Trade and Industry will revise the call-sales law in a bid to curb fraudulent sales, ministry officials said.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 2000

Snow Brand to resume sales of milk products

Snow Brand Milk Products Co. said Wednesday it will resume sales of low-fat and calcium-enriched milk made at its Osaka plant, the source of a recent food-poisoning scandal.
BUSINESS
Aug 23, 2000

FSA approves cross-sales at life, nonlife insurers

The Financial Services Agency has decided to allow life and nonlife insurance firms to sell each other's products for commission fees, industry sources said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
May 11, 2000

Matsushita sales, profit fall in 1999

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. reported on Wednesday that consolidated sales declined 4.5 percent to 7.3 trillion yen and operating profit dropped 17.9 percent to 159.1 billion yen in fiscal 1999, mainly due to the appreciation of the yen.
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2000

Sales overseas expected to rise despite strong yen

Despite the rising value of the yen, most Japanese affiliates overseas expect year-on-year increases in sales during the October-March period thanks to economic recovery in Asia, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry said in a report released Friday. The report is based on a survey conducted...
JAPAN
Jul 6, 1999

June sales show minivehicles still hot

Unit sales of minivehicles in June marked their ninth consecutive month of year-on-year increase with 165,466 units, up 29.2 percent compared with the same month last year, an industry association said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Apr 28, 1999

Sega slammed by poor Dreamcast sales

Electronics game machine maker Sega Enterprises Ltd. said Wednesday that it will suffer net losses of 32.8 billion yen for fiscal 1998, a sharp deviation from a projected 4.6 billion yen net profit.
JAPAN
Mar 12, 1999

Three JR firms project falling sales for '99

Mired in gloomy economic conditions, three JR group companies projected declining sales conditions Friday for the upcoming fiscal year.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 1998

Maritime transport firms enjoy buoyant first-half sales

The country's three largest maritime transport companies reported a unconsolidated sales increase for the first half of fiscal 1998 due to the weakened yen, the carriers announced Friday.
JAPAN
Jul 29, 1998

Commercial sales fell 4.4% in June

June commercial sales fell 4.4 percent in volume from the same month a year earlier, due to a slump in corporate demand and to unseasonably bad weather, according to a report released Wednesday by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
JAPAN
Jul 2, 1998

Yanase rolls out new Astra in hopes of sparking sales

Yanase & Co. introduced on Thursday the fully remodeled Astra from Adam Opel AG, a German affiliate of U.S.-based General Motors Corp.
JAPAN
May 1, 1998

Cigarette sales fall first time in nine years

Nationwide cigarette sales in fiscal 1997 registered the first fall in nine years due partly to price hikes, an industry group has reported.
JAPAN
Mar 16, 1998

Mazda leader looking to revitalize dealerships, sales

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JAPAN
Aug 6, 1997

Sales of imported vehicles fall again

The prolonged impact of the April consumption tax hike continued to dampen sales of imported vehicles in July, which dropped 25.6 percent to 31,354 units to mark a fourth consecutive monthly fall, an industry association said August 6.
JAPAN
Mar 19, 1997

JAMA predicts drop in vehicle sales

Domestic sales of passenger cars, trucks and buses in fiscal 1997 are likely to drop 3.7 percent from the previous year to 7 million units, due to expected weakened demand after the consumption tax hike in April, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said Mar. 19.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2023

Sales of security items jump after spate of robberies across Japan

Window films and auxiliary locks, both of which make break-ins through windows more difficult, are selling well, one store official said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 15, 2022

Japan's Olympus says moving from asset sales towards doing deals

After two decades in human resources roles, incoming Stefan Kaufmann will become one of the few foreign CEOs leading a major Japanese company.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 8, 2022

Nintendo cuts Switch sales forecast even as chip shortage seen to be easing

The company says it's now front-loading production to maximize delivery in the holiday shopping season, and that production output has been improving since September.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2022

Rival parties work together to craft bills helping 'spiritual sales' victims

By reaching out to the opposition, Kishida could pass a bill faster while dampening the momentum of opposition members grilling him on the issue of the Unification Church.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 1, 2022

U.S. officials order Nvidia to halt sales of top AI chips to China

The company said the ban, which affects its A100 and H100 chips designed to speed up machine learning tasks, could interfere with completion of developing the H100, the firm's flagship chip.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Jul 5, 2022

'Guerrilla' sales and crowdsourcing: Japan's game console crunch

Video game consoles by Sony and Microsoft have been hard to buy since their November 2020 release, leaving consumers and sellers stuck in a game of cat-and-mouse.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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