Tokyo, Japan, Mar 28, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - Honda Motor Co., Ltd., announced a summary of automobile production, Japan domestic sales, and export results for the month of February 2008. Production in Japan experienced a year-on-year decrease for the

Hiroshima, Japan, Mar 28, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - Mazda Motor Corporation's production and sales results for February 2008 are summarized below. I. Production Feb 2008 Jan-Feb 2008 Units Y-o-Y Units Y-o-Y Ch.(%) Ch.(%) Domestic Production Passenger Cars 98,307 +29.6

Tokyo, Japan, Mar 28, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) officially launched the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ), a next-generation regional jetliner, on March 28. Beginning April 1, Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation (tentative name), a new company established

Toyota Motor Corp. said Friday its global automobile production in February increased 12.8 pct from a year before to 767,999 units. Domestic output grew 6.1 pct to 392,457 units, and overseas production increased 20.7 pct to 375,542 units. Domestic vehicle

R-Tech Ueno Ltd. , a venture firm specializing in development and production of pharmaceutical products, will make its debut on the Osaka Securities Exchange's Hercules market for startup companies on April 9. The Tokyo-based company was established in 1989 by

Shareholders of Sapporo Holdings Ltd. Friday voted to keep the Japanese brewer's takeover defense measures in place. Steel Partners Japan Strategic Fund (Offshore) LP, the top shareholder with a stake of some 18 pct, voted against the measures. Last year,

Supermarket chain Daiei Inc. said Friday it will offer discounts on products mainly imported from the United States in order to return expected profits from the yen's strength to customers. Daiei will offer the discounts Saturday and Sunday at eight

Combined latent profits on major Japanese banks' shareholdings at the end of March are expected to fall 5.4 trillion yen from a year before due to recent tumbles in share prices, according to an analyst estimate unveiled Thursday. Hironari Nozaki,

Japanese trading house Itochu Corp. said Thursday that it is blaming a former employee in charge of imports and sales of alcohol for reporting fictitious profits totaling 3,765 million yen. The company dismissed the 54-year-old man Wednesday and cut the

Trading house Mitsubishi Corp. said Thursday it will set up a joint company in early April with Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co. to manage an investment fund worth 100 billion yen. The joint company, the name of which has yet to

Eight major Japanese banking groups suffered a total of 588 billion yen in losses from their U.S. subprime mortgage-linked exposure in April-December 2007, Financial Services Agency data showed Thursday. The data were presented to a corporate accounting panel of the

Oil rose above $106 a barrel on Thursday after saboteurs blew up a major pipeline in Iraq, cutting exports from the south of the country, and also because of strength in heating-oil futures. The attack on the pipeline in southern

Tokyo, Japan, Mar 27, 2008 - (ACN Newswire) - The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., today announced that it held an opening ceremony on February 29 for a new tire plant that the company newly constructed in Binh Duong Province in

Tokyo, Japan, Mar 27, 2008 - (ACN Newswire) - NTT Communications (NTT Com) announced today the launch of its Global Unified Threat Managed (Global UTM) service, which will provide Arcstar(TM)Global IP-VPN customers with integrated services for planning, constructing, managing and

To expanding Haryana's business portfolio, the State Bank of India has tied with the state government for the collection of stamp duty. Under the agreement stamp duty exceeding Rs 10,000 can be deposited through SBI in Haryana by paying nominal

Maruti Suzuki India Ltd has adopted the strategy of shifting focus from entry level compact cars, under the A-1segment, to entry level sedans, under the A-3 segment, as the car manufacturer also wants to launch its A-Star model, under the

Senior officers of Kolkata Police had intervened in the marriage of graphics artist Rizwanur Rehman and Priyanka Todi, as alleged by Rehman's family, the five officers involved in the case virtually admitted today for the first time in the High

The state will amend the West Bengal Value Added Tax rules by April to rejig the refund mechanism as proposed by the state finance minister, Asim Dasgupta, in his 2008-09 budget.

IDG Ventures India on Thursday announced that Kiran Karnik, former president of National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) and a recipient of the Padma Shri has joined the company, on their global advisory board. IDG Ventures India's advisory

Local and domestic long distance mobile call tariffs may drop further, thanks to telecom regulator Trai's announcement to do away with a fee that private telecom operators pay to state-run BSNL.Private operators were hitherto paying the fee called Access Deficit