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EARNINGS

BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 27, 2016
Line posts a profit in its first report card since global IPO
Line Corp. posted a profit in its first earnings report since ushering in the year's biggest technology debut, as monthly active users rose to 220 million.
BUSINESS
Apr 14, 2016
Japan Inc. faces biggest Abe-era profits drop on strong yen
For the past three years, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could usually count on surging corporate earnings to back up the case that his policies were turning around Japan, but that is no more.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 18, 2016
Toshiba sees finances improving after narrowing its business
Toshiba Corp. said its profitability will improve in the next fiscal year as it scales back on products such as personal computers and home appliances.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 15, 2016
Strong yen is a brake on Japanese carmakers' profits
Japanese automakers may have run out of the fuel that has driven profits higher for the past four years: the weaker yen.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 10, 2016
SoftBank profit down 88% amid Sprint struggle
SoftBank Group Corp., which is struggling to turn around its U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Corp., posted an 88 percent drop in third quarter profit.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 5, 2016
Sumitomo swings to loss, cuts forecast as writedowns mount
Sumitomo Corp. swung to a net loss in the third quarter and cut its full-year profit target by more than half as impairments on the value of its resources investments widened amid the slump in commodity prices.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 4, 2016
Mitsui slashes profit forecast 21% amid rout in commodities
Mitsui & Co., the nation's second-biggest trading house, has lowered its full-year forecast 21 percent amid a collapse in commodity prices.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
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.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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