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OSAKA -- Panasonic will establish a new company to oversee its entire Asian consumer electronics operation next April, a move aimed at localizing product development and shifting decision-making power. President Kazuhiro Tsuga made the ...

OSAKA The president of Panasonic Corp. said Thursday that the electronics giant's restructuring will be completed this fiscal year and be used as a springboard for reaching group sales of ¥10 trillion in fiscal 2018. We will position the ...

(Japan Economic Newswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ---------- Japan hangs man, brings total to 9 executed under Abe gov't TOKYO - Japan hanged a male death-row inmate Thursday, bringing to nine the total executed since the December 2012 launch of ...

The president of Panasonic Corp. said Thursday the company will complete its restructuring measures in the current fiscal year to achieve a group sales target of 10 trillion yen in fiscal 2018. "We will position the current business year as the ...

TOKYO -- The International Monetary Fund predicts that emerging economies will achieve an average growth of 4.9% in 2014, which is more than twice the rate of advanced countries, though growth in the developing world is starting to slow a little. ...

TOKYO -- Toyota Motor will invest some 500 billion yen ($4.87 billion) in domestic facilities this fiscal year, the most since the 2008 global financial crisis, at a time when Japanese companies are ratcheting up capital spending at home. The ...

A two-day meeting of the International Business Leaders Advisory Council for the Mayor of Beijing closed on May 27 in China World Hotel in Beijing. Wang Anshun, mayor of Beijing, presides over the meeting and makes a keynote speech at the ...

OSAKA, Japan-- Panasonic Corp., pondering an investment in a giant battery plant in the U.S., said it is grappling to find a solution with electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc. on how to achieve an ambitious target of reducing battery-manufacturing ...