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JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Mar 12, 2018

Aichi farm machinery firm taps foreign talent in the region to drive overseas sales

Kohshin Engineering Co., which produces and sells agricultural equipment for poultry farming, has successfully expanded its overseas sales by hiring foreign employees.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 6, 2013

GM, Nissan log record sales of plug-in vehicles in U.S.

General Motors Co. and Nissan Motor Co., the biggest sellers of rechargeable cars, posted record U.S. plug-in sales in August as their low-cost leases pushed battery-vehicle deliveries this year past last year's tally.
BUSINESS
Nov 5, 2008

New auto sales fall for third straight month; minicars up 6%

New auto sales in the domestic market fell for a third straight month in October, led by Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co., data from an industry group showed Tuesday, as a slowing economy kept buyers out of showrooms.
BUSINESS
Oct 2, 2008

First-half car sales sink to 34-year low

Domestic auto sales in the first half of this business year slumped to their lowest level in 34 years as rising unemployment and decade-high inflation sapped demand for new vehicles, an industry association said Wednesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 23, 2007

Toyota loses sales race to GM in third quarter

Toyota said Monday it sold 2.34 million vehicles globally in the July-September quarter, fewer than General Motors' tally, as its U.S. rival regained the lead in the race to be the world's top automaker.
BUSINESS
Oct 28, 2005

Honda reports record net profits, group sales in first half

Honda Motor Co. said Thursday it posted record net profit and group sales in the first half of fiscal 2005, led by brisk sales in North America and the absence of a one-time tax payment.
BUSINESS
Oct 28, 2004

Honda reports record first-half sales, profits

Honda Motor Co. on Wednesday reported record sales and profits on a consolidated basis for the first half, mainly due to brisk vehicle sales in Japan, Europe and Asia.
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2004

July vehicle sales fall for sixth month; MMC's down 60%

Domestic vehicle sales in July slipped 2.0 percent from a year before for the sixth consecutive month of decline, with those by scandal-tainted Mitsubishi Motors Corp. plunging 60.1 percent, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said Monday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 29, 2004

Stay-at-home sales agents cash in on Internet revolution

Housewife Tomoko Kobayashi puts on her Web businesswoman's hat at 9 a.m., after all her morning chores are out of the way.
BUSINESS
Feb 27, 2004

Retail sales assessment finally revised upward

The government on Thursday revised its assessment of retail sales trends upward for the first time in 21 months, following relatively strong growth in January.
BUSINESS
Nov 26, 2003

Store sales post first rise in more than a year

Sales at supermarkets and department stores around Japan posted a year-on-year rise in October for the first time in more than a year due mainly to favorable weather.
BUSINESS
Aug 9, 2003

Tax increase, 'chuhai' take toll on beer sales

The nation's major breweries on Friday reported weak beer sales for the first half of the year, with the economic slump, tax hikes and diversifying consumer taste conspiring to sap demand.
BUSINESS
Jul 25, 2002

Department store sales down 1.7%

Department store sales slipped to 3.98 trillion yen in the January-June period, down 1.7 percent from the same period last year and underlining depressed consumer spending, the Japan Department Stores Association said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 27, 2002

A first: METI upgrades retail sales assessment

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry gently upgraded its retail sales assessment Wednesday, with the scale of the year-on-year decline in sales having shrank to 3 percent in May from 4.5 percent in April.
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2002

New automobile sales down 1.4% in May

Domestic sales of new motor vehicles excluding minivehicles and specialty vehicles fell 1.4 percent in May from a year earlier to 284,826 units, down for the ninth consecutive month, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said Monday.
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer is among the key Democrats who have raised concerns about Middle East chip deals.
WORLD / Politics
May 20, 2025

Democrats warn Trump’s Middle East chip deals imperil U.S. security

Key U.S. Senate Democrats have urged the administration of President Donald Trump to revisit new artificial intelligence deals with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, saying that expanded sales of AI chips to the Middle Eastern countries risk exposing advanced technology to China and Russia,...
The Japan Securities Dealers Association sent questionnaires to major Japanese and foreign brokerages asking about bond selling irregularities.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 9, 2025

JSDA said to probe brokerages on unsuitable Japanese bond sales

The probe marks a step toward ridding Japan’s primary bond market of opaque sales practices as rising interest rates boost investor appetite for debt with higher yields.
Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, speaks during a news conference in Taipei on May 21.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 15, 2025

Nvidia to resume H20 AI chip sales to China in U.S. reversal

U.S. government officials told Nvidia they would green-light export licenses for the H20 artificial intelligence accelerator, the company said in a blog post.
The agriculture ministry believes the increase in rice distributed through new channels with higher transaction prices is one of the factors behind the rice price surge since last summer.
BUSINESS
Jul 30, 2025

Varied sales channels may have triggered rice price surge

The amount of 2024 rice shipped from producers to major buyers dealing with farmers fell by 340,000 metric tons from the previous year.
Visitors to the Osaka Expo line up for pavilions on Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2025

Osaka Expo ticket sales exceed break-even point

Before the opening, ticket sales were sluggish and there were concerns that the Expo would end in the red.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (right) speaks alongside U.S. President Donald Trump about investing in America, at the White House in Washington on April 30.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 12, 2025

Trump opens door to sales of version of Nvidia's next-gen AI chips in China

The chip will be a less-powerful version of the Blackwell.
Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani warms up in the batters box before the start of a game against the Diamondbacks on Thursday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 27, 2025

Ohtani tops MLB jersey sales for third straight season

The reigning National League MVP has led jersey sales since 2023, becoming just the fourth player to top the charts three years in a row.

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