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Business › Saturday 07th November, 07:28 AM JST
TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp's Prius gas-electric hybrid car was Japan's best-selling vehicle in October with sales of 26,918 units, staying in the top slot for the…
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Business › 07:00 AM JST - 7th November
TOKYO — Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co and Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc announced Friday a plan to integrate management in April 2011 that will create Japan's…
Business › 06:05 AM JST - 7th November
TOKYO — Five major Japanese nonlife insurance firms have revised upward their respective group net profit projections for the April to September first half of fiscal 2009…
Business › 04:25 AM JST - 7th November
TOKYO — The government is making arrangements to compile a comprehensive rescue package for struggling Japan Airlines Corp, including special legislation to enable a mandatory reduction in…
Business › 03:58 AM JST - 7th November
TOKYO — Yamaha Motor Co has dispatched some 270 of its full-time workforce to Toyota Motor Corp to secure jobs for workers who have become redundant due…
Business › 03:41 PM JST - 6th November
TOKYO — Tokyo stocks ended mixed Friday as initial gains by exporters on renewed U.S. recovery optimism were later trimmed when investors shifted to the sidelines ahead…
Business › 02:52 PM JST - 6th November
TOKYO — A government team tasked with aiding the turnaround of Japan Airlines Corp asked Friday the company's creditor banks, including the state-backed Development Bank of Japan,…
Business › 09:08 AM JST - 6th November
TOKYO — Kajima Corp, one of Japan's five largest construction contractors, is suspected of using low-priced gravel in the construction of a new runway at Tokyo's Haneda…
Business › 07:00 AM JST - 6th November
TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp said Thursday it incurred a group net loss of 55.99 billion yen in the April-September period, against a year-earlier profit of 493.47…
Business › 05:59 AM JST - 6th November
TOKYO — The head of a government-backed corporate turnaround body that will oversee the reconstruction of struggling Japan Airlines Corp said Thursday that a rescue package is…