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BUSINESS
Aug 2, 2003

Domestic vehicle sales up again

Domestic sales of new cars, trucks and buses rose 0.5 percent in July on a year-on-year basis to 369,664 units, up for the third straight month, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said Friday.
BUSINESS
May 21, 2003

Suzuki Motor records 20% sales increase

Suzuki Motor Corp., the nation's top minivehicle maker, on Tuesday reported record group sales of 2.02 trillion yen for fiscal 2002, up 20.8 percent from the previous year.
BUSINESS
Apr 22, 2003

Convenience store sales drop 3.1%

Convenience store sales dropped 3.1 percent in March on a same-store, year-on-year basis, the Japan Franchise Association said Monday.
BUSINESS
Mar 21, 2003

Carmakers predict slim sales growth

Some 5.85 million new vehicles are expected to be sold in Japan in the 2003 business year, up 0.4 percent from the forecast for 2002, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Mar 15, 2003

Department store sales keep sliding

Sales at department stores in Tokyo slid 2.5 percent in February on a year-on-year basis to 138.71 billion yen for the 15th consecutive month of decline, an industry body said Friday.
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2003

Sales fall again at convenience stores

Sales at convenience stores in Japan fell 1 percent on a same-store basis in December from a year earlier for the 18th consecutive monthly decline, the Japan Franchise Association said Monday.
BUSINESS
Jan 7, 2003

New-vehicle sales decline for second straight year

Sales of new motor vehicles in Japan, excluding minivehicles, fell 2.3 percent in 2002 from the previous year to 3,966,095 units for the second straight yearly decline, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said Monday.
BUSINESS
Sep 21, 2002

Convenience store sales slip 1.1%

Sales at convenience stores across the nation fell 1.1 percent in August from a year earlier on a same-store basis, marking the 14th month of year-on-year declines, the Japan Franchise Association said Friday.
BUSINESS
May 25, 2002

Sales slide leaves Isuzu Motors 1.9 billion yen in the red

Hit hard by sliding sales in both domestic and overseas markets, Isuzu Motors Ltd. announced Friday consolidated pretax and net losses of 1.9 billion yen for the 2001 business year.
BUSINESS
May 16, 2002

Department store sales down again

Sales at Tokyo department stores fell 4.8 percent in April from a year earlier to 166.6 billion yen, the fifth straight monthly decline, the Japan Department Stores Association said in a preliminary report Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Apr 9, 2002

Aeon logs record profits, sales

Aeon Co., which operates the Jusco supermarket chain, reported record sales and record profits on a consolidated basis for its business year, which ended Feb. 20, company officials said Monday.
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2002

Uniqlo sales plunge record 36%

Fast Retailing Co., which operates the Uniqlo chain, said Tuesday its sales plunged a record 36 percent on a same-store basis in February from a year earlier, down for the fifth straight month.
BUSINESS
Jan 22, 2002

Convenience store sales down 1.9%

Convenience store sales fell 1.9 percent on a same-store basis in December, marking the sixth straight month of year-on-year decline, the Japan Franchise Association said Monday.
BUSINESS
Jan 18, 2002

BMW looking to boost local sales

Automaker BMW said Thursday it expects to sell between 38,000 to 40,000 BMW vehicles in Japan during 2002 by expanding its product lineup and opening new dealerships. The company sold 36,266 units in 2001.
SOCCER / World cup
Dec 27, 2001

World Cup ticket sales proposed for Japan, China fans

Soccer authorities in South Korea, which is cohosting the 2002 World Cup with Japan, have proposed to soccer world governing body FIFA that it allow tickets allocated to South Koreans to be sold to Japanese and Chinese fans as well. This is in response to sluggish sales of tickets in South Korea sources...
BUSINESS
Dec 21, 2001

Domestic car sales expected to fall for second year in row

Domestic sales of automobiles, including minivehicles, are likely to shrink by 0.7 percent in 2002 to 5.88 million vehicles for the second straight year of decline, an industry group said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Nov 21, 2001

Suzuki reports interim increase in profits, sales

Suzuki Motor Corp. said Tuesday that group profits and sales increased for the first six months of fiscal 2001, thanks to a weaker yen and cost reduction efforts.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2001

Honda notches up 15% increase in midterm domestic sales

Honda Motor Co. scored the largest domestic sales growth of the nation's top five automakers for the April-September first half, marking a 15.2 percent gain from a year earlier to 422,255 vehicles, according to reports released Friday.
BUSINESS
Sep 7, 2001

Imported auto sales up 4% in August

Sales of imported vehicles rose 4 percent in August from a year earlier to 18,890 units, increasing for the second month in a row, the Japan Automobile Importers Association said Thursday.
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.
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.
Nissan says it will not take new U.S. orders for Mexican-built Infiniti SUVs
A Nissan manufacturing complex in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Nissan says it will not take new orders from the United States for two Mexican-built Infiniti SUVs following new auto tariffs levied by the U.S.
Japan digs deep to address 'national crisis' caused by Trump tariffs
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office on April 1. He has said that Japan is facing a "national crisis" following the introduction of new tariffs by the United States.
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.
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.
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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