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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is considering buying Westinghouse Electric, the builder of nuclear power plants, from British Nuclear Fuels, as Mitsubishi strives to expand its reactor business outside Japan. A purchase […]

Sanyo Electric, the ailing Japanese electronics maker, said Tuesday that it would cut 14,000 jobs, or 15 percent of its global work force, in a sweeping three-year overhaul effort. Like […]

Japanese corporate leaders were more optimistic about their prospects in June than they were three months earlier despite signs of a slowdown in exports, according to a quarterly business survey […]

Microsoft and Toshiba said Monday that they would work together to develop next-generation DVD players, heating up a race between competing technologies for DVD's. The companies aim to develop high-definition […]

The head of Sony, Sir Howard Stringer, on Wednesday promised shareholders a fresh plan to revamp the company and halt the long slide in its stock price as he formally […]

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, the Japanese tycoon, pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of insider trading and filing false financial statements, completing a humiliating downfall for a man once listed as the […]

Since the Concorde was grounded more than a year ago, about the only way to fly faster than the speed of sound was to become an Air Force pilot. But […]

Japan's unemployment rate fell to a six-year low in April while shoppers spent more freely, both signs that the country's tentative recovery may be gaining traction. The jobless rate fell […]

Net profit at the Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group sank 40 percent, to 338.4 billion yen ($3.14 billion), for the year ended March 31, after the group took heavy charges for […]

The Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Japan's third-largest bank, reported a net loss of 234.2 billion yen ($2.17 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, a sharp deterioration from a […]

Net losses at Mitsubishi Motors more than doubled to 474.8 billion yen, or $4.4 billion, in the financial year ended in March as the company failed to halt a long, […]

The Bank of Japan held interest rates just a fraction above zero yesterday and maintained the target for reserves it makes available to banks. But the bank also said it […]

The Japanese economy grew at the fastest pace in a year in the first quarter as a rebound in consumer spending more than offset slowing exports. Japan's gross domestic product […]

The current-account surplus unexpectedly shrank in March from February as high oil prices pushed up the value of imports that grew more quickly than exports. The surplus in the current […]

Orders for machinery unexpectedly rose in March, paced by orders from electronics companies and automakers, according to Japan's cabinet office. Machinery orders, excluding those from shipping and utility companies, rose […]

Microsoft and Toshiba have signed an agreement to cross-license their patents on computer software and digital consumer electronics, the companies said Friday. The pact, which was signed last month, could […]

Net profit of the Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation rose 10 percent for the fiscal year ended March 31, but the company forecast a 38 percent decline in profit for […]

The Tokyo Stock Exchange said that it would no longer list the stock of the cosmetics maker Kanebo, which disclosed a $1.4 billion accounting fraud last month. Managers who were […]

Quarterly profits at Toyota Motor plummeted 17 percent as the company plowed more money into an ambitious plan to increase its global market share. Toyota's net profit fell to 290.7 […]

The largest airline in Japan, the Japan Airlines Corporation, rebounded to a net profit of 30.1 billion yen ($285 million) for the fiscal year that ended March 31, from a […]

Net profit for the Japanese unit of the McDonald's Corporation more than tripled, to 1.92 billion yen ($18.23 million), for the quarter that ended March 31, from 560 million yen […]

The maker of the Power Ranger action figures will buy the creator of Pac-Man in a $1.7 billion deal to compete for a dwindling customer base. The Bandai Company, which […]

Industrial production in Japan unexpectedly fell in March for the second consecutive month, suggesting that the economy remains sluggish even after emerging from a mild recession last year. Industrial production […]

Net income for Japan's largest securities company, Nomura Holdings, fell 63 percent for the most recent quarter as underwriting commissions fell. Nomura's net income fell to 25.54 billion yen ($241 […]

Losses at Sony deepened in the most recent quarter, as lower prices for televisions and other consumer electronics items undercut the company's efforts to turn a corner. Sony, Japan's best-known […]

Consumer spending fell for a second consecutive month in March, and Japan's streak of price deflation extended to seven years. Spending by households headed by wage earners fell 1.1 percent […]

Profit at the Honda Motor Company increased 27 percent in the most recent quarter as strong sales of Odyssey minivans and Acura RL luxury sedans in the United States helped […]

The Nissan Motor Company will post a small increase on Monday in its net profit for the recent fiscal year, a result of big gains in the sales of its […]

Japan's upper house of Parliament passed a series of amendments to the country's antimonopoly laws in the first major revision to the statutes in nearly 30 years. The new laws […]

Japan's largest Internet portal company, the Yahoo Japan Corporation, said its profit rose 34 percent, to 10.32 billion yen ($97 million), in the quarter ended March 31, driven by growth […]

The Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group appointed its deputy president, Teisuke Kitayama, 58, left, as its new president to succeed Yoshifumi Nishikawa. The company, one of Japan's largest banking groups, also […]

A contentious Japanese takeover battle ended amicably on Monday as an Internet start-up, Livedoor, agreed to sell most of its stake in the target radio broadcaster to a rival bidder, […]

Japanese consumer sentiment rose to the highest level in more than eight years for the quarter ended March 31 as the job market improved and a long decline in wages […]

The Japanese retailer Daiei posted a net loss of 511.20 billion yen ($4.72 billion) for the year ended Feb. 28 as it closed stores and incurred charges related to a […]

A cosmetics maker, Kanebo, said it overstated its net profit by 148 billion yen ($1.38 billion) over the four years ended March 31, 2003. The company, which is undergoing a […]

The Japanese Internet start-up Livedoor and the Fuji Television Network are discussing a possible alliance, signaling that a contentious two-month struggle for control of a Tokyo radio broadcaster may end […]

The Japanese government chose the Nomura Securities Company and UBS Securities Japan as lead managers for the sale of as much as $7 billion of stock that it holds in […]

The consumer electronics giant Sanyo Electric chose a former television anchor, Tomoyo Nonaka, as its chairwoman and chief executive and named as its president the grandson of the company founder. […]

A convenience store operator, the Seven-Eleven Japan Company, reported net profit of 96.3 billion yen ($887 million) for the year ended Feb. 28, a 3.4 percent increase from a year […]

The Bank of Japan decided to continue its ultraeasy monetary policy, a decision that was widely expected after an important survey showed that optimism about the economy was fading among […]

Japanese corporate leaders are much less optimistic about business prospects than they were three months ago as they worry about fading export growth, a widely followed Bank of Japan survey […]

The struggling Mitsubishi Motors said Wednesday that it would seek as much as 1.3 billion yen, or $12 million, in damages from seven former executives for their roles in a […]

Japan's unemployment rate rose unexpectedly in February and consumer spending declined, indicating that the economy has not yet fully emerged from a slowdown that began last year, data released on […]

THE choice of Sir Howard Stringer as the first foreign chief executive of Sony affirms what appears to be the new conventional wisdom in Japan: When a company really needs […]