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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 / Companies
Apr 28, 2016
Panasonic's fiscal 2015 net profit up 7.7% on restructuring efforts
Panasonic Corp. said Thursday its group net profit rose 7.7 percent in fiscal 2015 from the previous year to ¥193.26 billion ($1.78 billion), helped by its restructuring.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 28, 2016
Surge in foreign visitors boosts profits of ANA, JAL in fiscal 2015
Robust demand from foreign travelers to Japan boosted profits of the country's two major airlines in fiscal 2015, according to their earnings reports released Thursday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 27, 2016
Mazda's net profit falls 15% in FY 2015 on air bag recall costs
Mazda Motor Corp. said Wednesday its group net profit for the business year ended March 31 fell 15.4 percent from the previous year to ¥134.42 billion ($1.2 billion), with costs of a global recall linked to air bags made by Takata Corp. weighing on the firm.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 27, 2016
Nintendo's net profit drops 61% in FY 2015 as stronger yen bites
Nintendo Co. said Wednesday its group net profit fell 60.6 percent in the 2015 business year ended last month to ¥16.51 billion ($139.5 million), bruised by the yen's appreciation against major currencies and languid portable game sales.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 27, 2016
Toshiba reduces projected loss for 2015 business year
Toshiba Corp. has said it plans to book an asset impairment loss of around ¥260 billion in its results for the year to March 31 by writing down the value of its U.S. nuclear power subsidiary Westinghouse Electric Co., which it acquired in 2006.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 21, 2016
Sony cuts 2015 group profit estimate by 9.4% on write-down of camera module unit
Sony Corp. said Thursday it has cut its group operating profit estimate for fiscal 2015 by 9.4 percent to ¥290 billion as it booked an impairment charge for the business that makes camera modules used in smartphones.
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.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 31, 2016
Panasonic drops ¥10 trillion sales target in fiscal 2018
Panasonic Corp. on Thursday dropped its goal of achieving ¥10 trillion in sales in fiscal 2018 as the electronics-maker struggles to build momentum for sustainable growth after restructuring.
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.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 15, 2016
Scandal-hit Toshiba discloses additional profit padding from 2010
Toshiba Corp. said Tuesday it had overstated profits by ¥5.8 billion from fiscal 2010, an additional finding in a massive accounting scandal that has forced the company to restructure its businesses.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 26, 2016
Nintendo halves 2015 net profit forecast on yen rise, weak sales
Nintendo Co. said Friday it has more than halved its forecast for group net profit for the year through March due to the yen's appreciation and sluggish sales of software for the handheld Nintendo 3DS game console.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 15, 2016
Toyo Tire profit shaken down over building quake pads scandal
Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. group net profit plummeted 94.6 percent to ¥1.67 billion for 2015 after a massive special loss from its data falsification scandal clobbered profits, the company said Monday.
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 11, 2016
Nissan logs record ¥453 billion nine-month profit on U.S., Europe sales
Nissan Motor Co. said Wednesday it logged a record-high group net profit of ¥452.84 billion for the April to December period as strong sales in North America and Western Europe more than offset weakness in emerging markets and at home.
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.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 9, 2016
McDonald's Japan logged ¥34.70 billion loss in 2015
McDonald's Holdings Co. (Japan) reported Tuesday a group net loss of ¥34.70 billion for 2015, the largest loss since it listed in Japan in 2001.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 5, 2016
Toyota logs record profits for April to December, hikes full-year outlook
Toyota Motor Corp. said Friday it booked record-high profits for the April to December period and raised its full-year forecast on strong sales in North America.
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.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Putin’s war will soon reach Russians’ tax bills
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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