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BUSINESS
Mar 19, 2008

Ricoh projects higher profit, sales

Ricoh Co., the nation's second-biggest office equipment maker, said Tuesday it expects operating profit and sales to rise in the next three years.
BUSINESS
Feb 26, 2008

New models seen giving a boost to '08 vehicle sales

Domestic vehicle sales may rise this year as carmakers introduce new models, the country's automobile dealers group said.
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2008

Fujifilm eyes Net photo-book service as sales of film drop

Fujifilm Holdings Corp. will enter the online photo-book publishing business in August as the traditional camera-film market continues to shrink.
Reader Mail
Jan 13, 2008

Get used to lower domestic sales

The Jan. 8 article " '07 vehicle sales lowest in 35 years" indicates that Japan is finally waking up to reality. Domestic sales in Japan will decline in nearly every sector. Fewer people mean lower sales. There is no cure but immigration, and that will never happen on the scale needed to produce results...
BUSINESS
Dec 15, 2007

Real estate bond sales to set record

Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank AG, and other investment banks are on track to sell a record amount of bonds tied to real estate in Japan, where rising property prices have created a safe haven from the subprime concerns afflicting other markets.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 27, 2007

Car sales manager helps point the way

While leasing and selling cars is a long way from wanting to emulate Miles Davis, Colin Shea has no regrets.
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2007

Toyota April-June sales top GM's for first time

Toyota Motor Corp. said Friday that it generated a record ¥6.5 trillion in group sales for the April-June quarter, up 15.7 percent from the previous year and topping General Motors Corp. for the first time ever in the period.
BUSINESS
Jul 11, 2007

NEC aims for rise in chip sales, profit

NEC Corp., Japan's largest personal computer maker, said Tuesday it aims for higher sales and profitability at its chip unit as the firm wants to triple earnings this business year.
BUSINESS
Jul 6, 2007

Corolla, Vitz lead first-half car sales

Toyota Motor Corp.'s Corolla model topped Japan's vehicle sales rankings during the first half of the year, after the company revamped the model in October for the first time in six years.
BUSINESS
Jul 3, 2007

Wii pummeled PS3 in June sales

Nintendo Co.'s Wii game console extended its sales lead over Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 in Japan last month, research firm Enterbrain Inc. said Monday.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2007

Mitsukoshi turns profit but sales fall

Mitsukoshi Ltd., Japan's third-largest department store chain, said Friday it returned to profit in the first quarter from the year before, when it posted a loss because of a revaluation of its real estate holdings.
BUSINESS
May 17, 2007

Sony logs 68% slump in operating profit

Sony Corp. announced Wednesday that its operating profit plunged 68.3 percent to 71.75 billion yen in the 2006 business year because of price cuts on the PlayStation 3 and the cost of recalling lithium-ion batteries.
BUSINESS
Jul 22, 2006

Yahoo has record quarterly profit on strong ad sales

Yahoo Japan Corp. said Friday its group net profit hit a record 13.2 billion yen, up 28.1 percent, on sales of 49.3 billion yen in the April-June quarter thanks to strong advertising sales.
BUSINESS
Apr 28, 2006

JR trio saw record sales, pretax profits in '05, despite crashes

Three major Japan Railway carriers Thursday reported record consolidated sales and pretax profits for fiscal 2005, led by strong demand for bullet train and conventional rail line travel, despite fatal train accidents involving two of them.
BUSINESS
Mar 21, 2006

Convenience store sales fall 2.4%

Sales at convenience stores in Japan dropped 2.4 percent in February from a year earlier on a same-store basis to 483.54 billion yen, declining for the 19th consecutive month, an industry body said Monday.
BUSINESS
Jan 27, 2006

Bravia, Vaio sales buoy Sony earnings forecast

Sony Corp. said Thursday it revised its earnings forecast for the full year through March 31 from a net loss of 10 billion yen to a net profit of 70 billion yen, buoyed by stronger-than-expected sales of Bravia TVs and Vaio PCs over the holidays.
BUSINESS
Dec 29, 2005

Retail sales up 0.1% in November

Retail sales inched up 0.1 percent in November from a year earlier to 10.60 trillion yen for the first rise in two months, underpinned by robust sales of fuel due to relatively low temperatures, the government said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Aug 10, 2005

Toshiba lowers profit ratio goal despite expected sales growth

Acknowledging Toshiba Corp. has not met its targets in the last five years, the firm's new president lowered profit ratio forecasts Tuesday, indicating that while it expects sales to grow, profits will likely decline -- or will not grow as fast.
BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2005

Retail sales up fourth month, at 3.1%

Japan's retail sales grew 3.1 percent in June on a year-on-year basis to 10.54 trillion yen, marking a fourth straight monthly rise, the government said Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 27, 2005

Tamagotchi's rebirth sparking new sales binge

Every day for more than a year, phones at Hakuhinkan Toy Park have been ringing off the hook when the store opens at 11 a.m.
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.
'Hang tough, it won't be easy': Trump defiant on tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he walks to deliver remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden entitled "Make America Wealthy Again" at the White House in Washington on Wednesday.
Ishiba says he plans to speak to Trump about tariffs in coming days
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Nissan considers transferring some domestic production to U.S., report says
Nissan plans to reduce production at its Fukuoka factory and shift some manufacturing of its Rogue SUV to the United States to mitigate the impact of Trump's tariffs.
‘Let’s make it practical’: NATO chief eyes greater defense-industrial ties with Japan
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte plans to visit Japan on Tuesday and Wednesday — his first to the Indo-Pacific region since taking office in October, as he seeks to implement lessons from the ongoing war in Ukraine.
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.

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