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Sales of imported motor vehicles in Japan, including those made at Japanese carmakers’ overseas plants, plunged 22.7% in October from a year earlier to 11,390 units amid severe economic conditions, an industry body said. The number represents the 18th...
Tags: Japan Automobile Dealers Association, Japan Automobile Importers Association, Toyota Motor Corp.
Tokyo stocks rose sharply Thursday as investors hunted for bargains after the previous day’s decline, spearheaded by auto shares that climbed further on expectations for a greater U.S. market share, sending the key Nikkei index to a new 10-month closing...
Nikon Corp said Wednesday it has expanded its projected loss for fiscal 2009 as it expects to book inventory disposal and valuation losses worth nearly 30 billion yen in its precision equipment division. In the revised group earnings projection for the...
Tags: Democratic Party of Japan, Japan Automobile Importers Association, Toshiba Corp., foreign investors, Bloomberg, japan stock, Toyota Motor Corp, Yoshimi Watanabe, investors bought
Its reliance on foreign consumer demand means the country has been cut apart by the world recession. Its political leaders must be aggressive in pushing through measures required to kick-start growth and to move it away from its mercantilist economic...
Tags: Japan Automobile Importers Association, Bank of Japan, United States, LNG, largest economy, U.S, oil prices, global economic, Asian
Rakuten Inc will raise its equity stake in eBank, Japan’s top online bank, from 46.39% to 67.22%...Rakuten will buy roughly 330,000 shares to be issued by eBank in a private placement, paying 9.99 billion yen to lift its stake to 56.48%. It will also...
Tags: Rakuten Credit Inc, Japan Automobile Importers Association
Panasonic Corp. joined a growing list of Japanese electronics firms to forecast a huge loss for the current fiscal year and said it plans to cut about 5% of its work force to combat a sharp slowdown in demand and ease the burden of a strong yen. The announcement...
Tags: Japan Automobile Importers Association, billion yen, million yen, imported vehicle, Aya Miyama, Panasonic, Toyota Motor Corp., net loss, L&G K.K.
However, the Nifty index of National Stock Exchange (NSE) eased modestly by 8.65 points and closed in red at 3112.80 from its previous day's close of 3121.45. The benchmark indices closed the session on a mixed note amid high volatlity--the Nifty seemed...
Nippon Oil, the biggest oil refiner in Japan, and Nippon Mining Holdings plan to merge, aiming to better cope amid falling prices and slowing demand. The two companies said they would have a briefing on their merger later in the day...Nippon Oil's stock...
Tags: Nippon Mining Holdings Inc., Nippon Oil Corp., Japan Automobile Importers Association, General Motors Corp., Moody's Investors Service, Chrysler LLC, asian stock
Sales of home-use video game hardware and software in Japan grew 3.8% in fiscal 2007 to a record 676.9 billion yen, game magazine publisher Enterbrain Inc said Thursday. The combined sales reached the highest level since Enterbrain started taking
Tags: japan, nintendo, video, wii, Japan Automobile Importers Association, sony, Honda Motor Co