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EARNINGS

BUSINESS / Companies
May 12, 2014
Sharp logs ¥11.5 billion net profit after a harrowing two-year slump
Sharp Corp. posted its first net profit in three years in fiscal 2013, earning ¥11.5 billion after losing a staggering ¥545.3 billion in fiscal 2012, the electronics maker said Monday.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 12, 2014
Nissan posts 13.6% profit rise as automaker outperforms market
Nissan Motor Corp. announced Monday that group operating profit rose 13.6 percent to ¥498.3 billion for the business year ended in March, boosted by strong sales in Japan and North America.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 9, 2014
FHI to stop making Toyota's Camrys in U.S.
Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., the maker of Subaru cars, will stop making the Camry in the United States for Toyota Motor Corp., its largest shareholder.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 8, 2014
Toyota eclipses 2007 profit record
Toyota posts a record group operating profit of ¥2.29 trillion for 2013, breaking the previous record of ¥2.27 trillion set before the global financial crisis.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 8, 2014
Mitsubishi Estate turns first profit in three years
Mitsubishi Estate Co. said Thursday that full-year earnings rose for the first time in three years as profit margins at its residential business improved and office rents recovered.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 7, 2014
SoftBank tops archrival Docomo for first time on record profit
Amid growing smartphone sales and a raft of acquisitions, SoftBank Corp. has announced that its group operating profit hit a record ¥1.08 trillion, and its net profit an all-time high of ¥527 billion in fiscal 2013, surpassing rival NTT Docomo Inc. for the first time.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 1, 2014
Sony reports loss 18% bigger than forecast
Sony Corp., the maker of Xperia smartphones and PlayStation consoles, posted a loss 18 percent larger than forecast as the company cut earnings for the third time in the past year amid slumping consumer electronics sales.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 30, 2014
Tepco reports profit for first time since '11
Tokyo Electric Power Co. moved into the black in fiscal 2013 thanks to drastic cost-cutting efforts taken in response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 25, 2014
Sales rise boosts operating profit at Honda by 38%
Honda Motor Co. said Friday it logged a group operating profit of ¥750.2 billion, up 37.7 percent, for the business year ended March on higher sales of four-wheel vehicles and motorcycles and the yen's fall.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 3, 2014
Seven & I shatters operating profit record as convenience stores thrive
Seven & I Holdings Co. said Thursday it logged a record consolidated operating profit of ¥339.6 billion for the business year through February, thanks mainly to the strong performance of its convenience stores, which gave the group a 14.9 percent boost.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 7, 2014
Sony revision spurs credibility crisis for Hirai
Kazuo Hirai, who took the helm at Sony Corp. two years ago to revive the Japanese icon, is losing credibility with investors who think he's not up to the job.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 4, 2014
Panasonic profit beats analyst estimates
Panasonic Corp. posted third-quarter profit that beat analysts' estimates as the television maker stops making plasma sets to speed up reforms and recover from back-to-back annual losses.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 4, 2014
Banks' record earnings mask actual profit prospects
The nation's biggest banks, poised to achieve record annual earnings after last year's stock market surge, may still disappoint investors as the equity rally fades, leaving them reliant on a lending recovery for profit.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 31, 2014
Docomo starts to reap benefits from iPhone
NTT Docomo Inc. has strengthened its competitiveness since it began selling popular Apple iPhones in September, President Kaoru Kato said Friday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 30, 2014
Toyota looks to log record group operating profit
Toyota Motor Corp. is expected to log a record operating profit for the current business year through March aided by the yen's fall, which boosts export competitiveness, sources said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 30, 2014
Toshiba net profit down 29% on tax payments
Toshiba Corp. said Thursday its group net profit dropped 29.1 percent in the April to December period from a year earlier to ¥38.68 billion on increased tax payments, though sales expanded on robust demand for electric components.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 28, 2013
Core profits surge at top four life insurers in April-September
Core profits surged for the top four life insurance companies in the April-September period as the weaker yen boosted interest returns from foreign bonds, according to results released this week.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 31, 2013
Tepco logs ¥616.20 billion group net profit for April-September
Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Thursday reported a group net profit of ¥616.20 billion for the April-September period, swinging into the black on a half-year basis for the first time since the nuclear disaster at its Fukushima No. 1 complex in 2011.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 28, 2013
Mining slump pinches 26% off Komatsu profits
Komatsu Ltd., the world's second-largest maker of construction equipment, cut its full-year profit forecast by 26 percent Monday after its commodity producing customers curtailed spending on new equipment.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 12, 2013
Major firms' first-quarter earnings twice year-ago level
The country's top listed companies doubled earnings last quarter from a year earlier, exceeding already high forecasts and generating momentum for the economic recovery effort of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
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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.
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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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