Just as a tide of canceled orders has prompted Airbus SE to halt production of the A380 superjumbo, Japan's biggest airline is betting it can succeed where others have failed — by filling the luxurious double-deckers with tourists flying to Hawaii. From May 24, ANA ...

Japan's mobile carriers have come under government scrutiny for high phone bills that have helped bring years of enviable profit margins and given them a combined market value of more than $250 billion. One of the most senior figures in government raised the possibility of ...

Open up the guts of the U.S. government — something President-elect Donald Trump hinted he will do — and what do you see? A sprawling tangle of information technology services contracted out to private companies working on everything from Obamacare to immigration, air force bases ...

It's called the U.S. Open, and the crowd is definitely from New York, but the clothing on the court is decidedly Japanese. Stan Wawrinka, wearing Yonex, thrilled fans with a four-set victory over world No. 1 Novak Djokovic, sponsored by Uniqlo. The semifinals featured another ...

Japanese companies, which have embarked on a $210 billion global acquisition spree over the past three years, are getting a surprise bargain out of Brexit. The yen soared Friday to its highest in more than two years, boosting local firms' purchasing power for deals abroad ...

Months after Masayoshi Son is said to have shelved a plan for a management buyout of SoftBank Group Corp., there are still 13 billion reasons to take the company private. That's the difference in dollars between the value of SoftBank itself and its investments in ...

Billionaire Daniel Loeb is starting to make a habit of looking for bargains in Japan. In his fourth foray in two years in the country, the New York-based activist investor has taken a stake in Suzuki Motor Corp. The investment comes after Loeb's Third Point ...

Japanese companies, long known for being stingy with shareholders, doled out record amounts of cash to investors in the past year. It's just the start of the payouts. Dividends and buybacks soared 76 percent to ¥12.8 trillion in the 12 months ended in March, according ...

Sony Corp. President and CEO Kazuo Hirai is getting a vote of confidence from predecessor Howard Stringer in his effort to turn around the electronics maker. The latest incarnation of the PlayStation and restructuring are helping fuel a comeback, Stringer told Bloomberg TV. Sony has ...

Activist investor Daniel Loeb is proving determination can pay off, even in Japan. After failing to win major changes from Sony Corp., he picked an even more unlikely target in Fanuc Corp. It was a surprise then on Monday when the secretive industrial-robot maker agreed ...