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Sony's new online service connecting the whole range of its gadgets to downloadable content like movies and games should help build brand loyalty, a top executive said Friday.
Asia's four-day stock market rally petered out Thursday as investors turned cautious.
Toyota Motor Corp. announced Thursday a surprise profit last quarter and trimmed its projected red ink for the year, underlining the gradual recovery under way for Japan's giant automakers.
Asia's technology giants are showing mixed signs of recovery, with Japan's electronics makers set to languish in the red this year while South Korean companies rebound sharply from a global industry slump.
Brandname Japanese technology companies, including Nintendo, reported dismal earnings Thursday with Sharp emerging an exception in doubling profits on brisk sales of flat-panel TVs in China, Japan and the U.S.
Nintendo's first-half profit plunged as sales of its hit Wii home console fizzled, forcing the maker of Super Mario and Pokemon games to forecast annual earnings would fall for the first time in six years.
Japanese automakers are experiencing a production boom in China with Toyota, Honda and Nissan setting records for September — the latest signs of an emerging recovery for Japan's auto industry.
Nomura Holdings Inc. stayed in the black for a second straight quarter, helped by a recovery in financial markets and the broadening of its business overseas through the acquisition of parts of Lehman Brothers.
Japanese government incentives for green cars and strong sales in China helped Honda Motor Co. avoid red ink for the first half and raise its full year profit forecast.
The director of a secretly filmed documentary that shows the annual dolphin hunt of a Japanese town said Tuesday he'll give the town the profits from screenings in Japan — if they end the hunt.
Toyota Motor Corp. has unveiled a more expensive and bigger hybrid-only model than its hit Prius, underlining the Japanese automaker's ambitions to make green technology more widespread.
Two years before the fatal accident that prompted Toyota to warn 3.8 million American car owners to take out floor mats, Troy Johnson died in a crash also suspected of being caused by a floor mat jamming an accelerator.
Nissan's Land Glider electric vehicle tilts from side to side, sashaying into curves by up to a 17-degree angle, as though showing off in a fashion statement that it's zero-emissions.
Besides showing off its well-known hybrids, Toyota will take a slightly different tack at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show to display a green sportscar with a special kind of gasoline engine.
Japanese automaker Mazda now expects about half the red ink it previously forecast for the fiscal year, crediting a rise in demand from "green" car incentives, and said it will raise $1.1 billion to fund research and development.
Toyota's president said it was "extremely regrettable" an American family died in a crash in which a floor mat in one of the Japanese automaker's vehicles is suspected as the cause.
Honda's chief executive said Thursday the dollar's recent plunge was sending the automaker into a "danger zone," threatening efforts to keep Japan's manufacturing strong.
Jarno Trulli was too ill join Toyota teammate Timo Glock at a Tokyo media event ahead of Sunday's Formula One Japan Grand Prix.
Honda's new "personal mobility" device looks like a unicycle, but all you need to do to zip around on it — sideways as well as forward and back — is lean your weight into the direction you want to go.
The director of an award-winning documentary about Japan's dolphin slaughter said Friday that he plans to attend the screening of "The Cove" at the Tokyo film festival even though he could be arrested.
The Tokyo International Film Festival will show "The Cove," a documentary that depicts the slaughter of dolphins in Japan. But the decision was so last-minute the movie didn't make it into the official press package.
Now that the Japanese have overthrown the old guard, worries are growing the new leaders lack a long-term vision to turn around the hobbled economy.
All Ric O'Barry wants is to stop the killing, so the dolphin trainer for the 1960s "Flipper" TV series figured the natural place to start was in this seaside Japanese town.
Japan is one of the world's most Internet-savvy nations — except when it comes to politics. Decades-old rules have effectively banned campaigning on the Web.
"Titanic" director James Cameron has signed on with Panasonic Corp. to promote new 3-D TVs.
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