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TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp <6758.T> aims to earn a 5 percent operating profit margin in three years by turning its struggling LCD TV and game operations profitable next year and launching 3D TVs and lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. Sony, which ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group <8306.T> became the third major Japanese bank to post upbeat results, underscoring the improving outlook for the sector, and said it would raise $11 billion to meet stricter capital rules. Japan's top bank also said ...

Fire-fighters trained to cope with biochemical terrors were rushed to a Tokyo metro station on Wednesday when a male passenger dropped a bottle filled with an industrial acid onto the floor of a train. The plastic bottle cracked on impact, unleashing a ...

Tokyo has overtaken Paris as the city with the most Michelin three-star restaurants, cementing its status as the "world capital of gastronomy", the publisher of the culinary guide has announced. The latest edition of the Michelin guide to the Japanese capital awarded ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Several people were injured when a stone worker riding on a Tokyo subway train accidentally broke a container of hydrochloric acid he was carrying, the fire department and media said Wednesday. Television showed emergency vehicles and rescue workers in ...

A Japanese engineer kidnapped near Sanaa is still being held by Yemeni tribesmen, a mediator said on Wednesday, while Japan's prime minister expressed hope the 63-year-old's release was "close." Sheikh Abdul Jalil, a tribal leader in Arhab, northeast of Sanaa where the ...

Japan's two-time double Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima has returned to competition after a break of 15 months on the road to the 2012 London Games. The 27-year-old swimmer swept all before him in time trials at the weekend in Fullerton, California, ...

Corrects title in paragraph 6 to ...Assistant Secretary of Defense... from Assistant Secretary of State TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan and the United States will hold the first meeting of a working group to tackle a row over a U.S. military base on ...

TOKYO - NOVEMBER 17: Director of Michelin Guides Jean-Luc Naret attends the "Michelin Guide Tokyo 2010" Press Conference at Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building on November 17, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. The guide, which has given three Stars to 11 restaurants in Tokyo ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government inched toward agreeing new stimulus measures that could be worth $30 billion on Monday as economic growth is likely to slow next year due to sluggish personal spending and rising inventories. Economists doubt whether that amount will ...