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Nissan To Buy Back Shares For Up To Y400 Bil
- Category:Driving
JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO — Japanese car maker Nissan says it will buy back up to 400 billion yen worth of its own shares by the end of the year.
The operation, announced after a board meeting, will start on Monday and run until December 22, it said.
The buyback will not lead to any “material change”...
TOKYO — Japanese car maker Nissan says it will buy back up to 400 billion yen worth of its own shares by the end of the year.
The operation, announced after a board meeting, will start on Monday and run until December 22, it said.
The buyback will not lead to any “material change”...
- February 29, 2016
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Nintendo Halves Profit Forecast On Strong Yen
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO — Video game giant Nintendo on Friday chopped its full-year net profit forecast in half, saying slowing sales and a recent pick up in the Japanese currency were eating into its bottom line.
The Kyoto-based company said it now expected to eke out a 17 billion yen net profit in ...
TOKYO — Video game giant Nintendo on Friday chopped its full-year net profit forecast in half, saying slowing sales and a recent pick up in the Japanese currency were eating into its bottom line.
The Kyoto-based company said it now expected to eke out a 17 billion yen net profit in ...
- February 27, 2016
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Sharp Shares Plunge After Takeover Thrown Into Question
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO — Sharp shares nosedived Friday, after the Taiwanese multinational that owns Foxconn said it would delay its multi-billion-dollar takeover to review new information it had received about the ailing Japanese giant.
Analysts had cheered Hon Hai Precision’s bid for Sharp—the firs...
TOKYO — Sharp shares nosedived Friday, after the Taiwanese multinational that owns Foxconn said it would delay its multi-billion-dollar takeover to review new information it had received about the ailing Japanese giant.
Analysts had cheered Hon Hai Precision’s bid for Sharp—the firs...
- February 27, 2016
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Japan's Inflation Falls Back to Zero In January
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO — Japan’s inflation rate fell to zero in January, government data showed on Friday, in another blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s three-year attempt to put an end to a years-long battle with falling prices.
Japan has suffered deflation—a debilitating drop in prices—off and on s...
TOKYO — Japan’s inflation rate fell to zero in January, government data showed on Friday, in another blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s three-year attempt to put an end to a years-long battle with falling prices.
Japan has suffered deflation—a debilitating drop in prices—off and on s...
- February 26, 2016
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Economy, Strong Yen Defuse 'Explosive' Chinese Shopping In Japan
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO — Chinese tourists spent less in Tokyo shops during the Lunar New Year holidays compared with a year earlier, retailers said, as a stronger yen and slower economic growth at home discouraged the kind of “explosive buying” that became a buzzword in 2015.
Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdi...
TOKYO — Chinese tourists spent less in Tokyo shops during the Lunar New Year holidays compared with a year earlier, retailers said, as a stronger yen and slower economic growth at home discouraged the kind of “explosive buying” that became a buzzword in 2015.
Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdi...
- February 25, 2016
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Concert Ticket Resale Market Growing Fast
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THE JAPAN NEWS
By Mamoru Kurihara / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer
The “secondary distribution” market for reselling concert tickets has been expanding rapidly, bolstered by the proliferation of intermediary services that sell the tickets online. There are merits to being able to sell unneeded ti...
By Mamoru Kurihara / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer
The “secondary distribution” market for reselling concert tickets has been expanding rapidly, bolstered by the proliferation of intermediary services that sell the tickets online. There are merits to being able to sell unneeded ti...
- February 24, 2016
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Japan Aso: G20 to discuss China, Oil, U.S. Monetary Policy
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REUTERS
Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Friday that finance chiefs from the Group of 20 major economies will discuss China's excess capacity, tumbling oil prices, and U.S. monetary policy when they meet in Shanghai next week.
"China's excess capacity and its excess financial credit, ...
Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Friday that finance chiefs from the Group of 20 major economies will discuss China's excess capacity, tumbling oil prices, and U.S. monetary policy when they meet in Shanghai next week.
"China's excess capacity and its excess financial credit, ...
- February 23, 2016
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Japan's Sharp To Vote On Rival Takeover Bids On Thursday: Sources
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REUTERS
Sharp Corp (6753.T) plans to choose between rival rescue offers as soon as Thursday, as a favoured bid from Taiwan's Foxconn continues to be challenged by a Japanese state-backed investment fund, people with direct knowledge of the matter said. The board of the ailing electronics maker ...
Sharp Corp (6753.T) plans to choose between rival rescue offers as soon as Thursday, as a favoured bid from Taiwan's Foxconn continues to be challenged by a Japanese state-backed investment fund, people with direct knowledge of the matter said. The board of the ailing electronics maker ...
- February 22, 2016
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Japan, U.S. Reach Deal On Daytime Haneda Slots
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THE JAPAN NEWS
The Yomiuri Shimbun
The Japanese and U.S. governments agreed on Thursday to set a total of 10 new daytime slots for round-trips between the two countries at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport.
The agreement was reached in civil aviation talks between the two countries that started Tuesday.
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The Yomiuri Shimbun
The Japanese and U.S. governments agreed on Thursday to set a total of 10 new daytime slots for round-trips between the two countries at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport.
The agreement was reached in civil aviation talks between the two countries that started Tuesday.
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- February 19, 2016
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Nissan To Build Cars In Myanmar For First Time
- Category:Driving
JAPAN TODAY
YANGON — Japanese auto giant Nissan will start assembling cars in Myanmar for the first time this year, the company said Wednesday, as it expands its presence in one of Asia’s final economic frontiers.Foreign companies have piled into the Southeast Asian nation since reforms began i...
YANGON — Japanese auto giant Nissan will start assembling cars in Myanmar for the first time this year, the company said Wednesday, as it expands its presence in one of Asia’s final economic frontiers.Foreign companies have piled into the Southeast Asian nation since reforms began i...
- February 19, 2016
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