RSS Feed for Japan Today http://www.japantoday.com/feed Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:08:47 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/mazda-upgrades-premacy Mazda Motor Corp has upgraded its Premacy (known as the Mazda5 in overseas markets) compact minivan in Japan. Popular due to its sporty styling and… Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:24:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/nippon-life-to-scrap-insurance-premium-discounts-from-april Nippon Life Insurance Co will stop giving insurance premium discounts to holders of multiple insurance policies starting next April as part of its efforts to… Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:10:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/1000-to-lose-jobs-when-social-insurance-agency-abolished Roughly 1,000 full-time employees of the Social Insurance Agency will lose their jobs when the agency is dissolved in January to make way for a… Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:45:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/6-major-japanese-carmakers-resume-weekend-output-thanks-to-tax-breaks Six of Japan's major automakers will resume plant operations on weekends to manufacture hybrids and other fuel-efficient cars amid nascent signs of an improvement in… Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:40:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/japan-stocks-sag-on-dismal-us-jobless-data Japanese stocks fell for a third straight day Friday, dragged down by renewed pessimism over a recovery in the global economy following dismal U.S. employment… Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:47:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/au-optronics-takes-50-share-in-m-setek AU Optronics Corp. will buy a 50 percent share in polycrystalline silicon maker M. Setek Co., Ltd. of Japan for US$125 million. The acquisition will… Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:30:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/new-president-targets-capital-adequacy-ratio-at-toshiba Norio Sasaki, the new president of Toshiba Corp., said he aims to boost the company's capital adequacy ratio, which dropped below 14 percent earlier this… Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:04:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/mitsubishi-ufj-securities-imposes-pay-cuts-on-execs-over-data-removal Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co. said Thursday it has decided to impose pay cuts on President Fumiyuki Akikusa and six other executives following an unauthorized removal… Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:55:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/showcase-of-japanese-pop-culture-opens-in-paris The annual Japan Expo opened in a Paris suburb Thursday for a four-day run with the prospect of drawing a crowd of around 150,000, the… Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:28:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/japans-semiconductor-trading-ouses-race-to-shrink-overheads Japan's leading semiconductor trading firms are racing to lower their marketing and administrative costs in order to wring out more profits amid stagnant demand and… Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:17:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/japan-stocks-fall-on-bank-merger-worries Slumping banks dragged Japanese stocks lower Thursday as investors doubted whether latest merger deal between Shinsei Bank Ltd. and Aozora Bank Ltd. would prove fruitful.… Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:19:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/kddi-earnings-climb-yet-markets-disappointed KDDI Corp. reported that its net profit for the fiscal year climbed 2.3 percent but failed to meet market expectations as a 32 percent year-on-year… Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:16:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/hitachi-to-supply-lithium-ion-batteries-to-gm Japanese electronics maker Hitachi Ltd. said Thursday it will supply lithium-ion batteries for hybrid vehicles to General Motors Corp. in 2010 and sharply raise production… Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:09:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/morgan-stanley-mitsubishi-ufj-to-form-finance-jv Mitsubishi UFJ, Japan's largest bank, and Morgan Stanley said Wednesday they will form a joint venture to pursue corporate financing business in the U.S., Canada… Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:34:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/jal-president-vows-to-compile-aggressive-new-cost-cutting-plan-soon Japan Airlines Corp. President Haruka Nishimatsu promised the government Wednesday to soon present an aggressive cost-cutting plan to turn around its loss-making businesses after inking… Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:22:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/mizuho-to-raise-up-to-72-bln-from-share-offer Mizuho Financial Group Inc., Japan's third-biggest bank by market value, will raise up to 693 billion yen ($7.2 billion) from selling new shares to repair… Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:22:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/citigroup-sells-nikkociti-trust-to-nomura-trust Nomura Trust and Banking Co. is acquiring NikkoCiti Trust and Banking Corp. from Citigroup Inc. for 19 billion yen ($196 million) as the U.S. financial… Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:30:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/sony-struggling-as-walkman-hits-30th-anniversary When the Sony Walkman went on sale 30 years ago, it was shown off by a skateboarder to illustrate how the portable cassette-tape player delivered… Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:11:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/japanese-built-train-makes-debut-on-british-rail-lines British commuters are making trips on Japanese-built high-speed trains for the first time, with more orders expected to follow for the European unit of Hitachi… Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:37:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/softbank-to-market-ntts-flets-hikari-fiber-optic Softbank Corp. plans to go national next month with sales of Flet's Hikari-branded fiber-optic broadband services from the Nippon Telegraph & Telephone group. The decision… Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:36:00 +0100