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Nintendo's sales in FY 2025 top 2 tril. yen

File photo taken on April 3, 2025, in Tokyo shows the Switch 2 gaming console of Nintendo Co. The video game company reported on May 8, 2026, that its sales for the year ended March that year rose 98.6 percent from a year earlier to 2.31 trillion yen, the first time the company has topped the 2 trillion yen mark.

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Toyota ups FY 2013 profit outlook

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyori Kodaira, executive vice president of Toyota Motor Corp., announces the company's earnings forecast at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2013. Kodaira said Toyota has revised upward its operating profit projection for the business year through March 2014 to 2.2 trillion yen, exceeding 2 trillion yen for the first time in six years.

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Toyota ups FY 2013 profit outlook

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyori Kodaira, executive vice president of Toyota Motor Corp., announces the company's earnings forecast at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2013. Kodaira said Toyota has revised upward its operating profit projection for the business year through March 2014 to 2.2 trillion yen, exceeding 2 trillion yen for the first time in six years.

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Yamada Denki to buy out Best Denki

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo shows the parent store of home electronics retailer Best Denki Co. in Fukuoka in southwestern Japan on July 12, 2012. Yamada Denki Co. will buy out its competitor Best Denki in a bid to secure its foothold as the top home electronics retailer in Japan by creating a group with sales of over 2 trillion yen, industry sources said the same day.

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Yamada Denki to buy out Best Denki

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 2009 shows LABI1, a huge store of home electronics retailer Yamada Denki Co., in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district. Yamada Denki will buy out its competitor Best Denki Co. in a bid to secure its foothold as the top home electronics retailer in Japan by creating a group with sales of over 2 trillion yen, industry sources said July 12, 2012.

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Lower house OKs 2nd extra budget for quake-relief work

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) and his Cabinet members bow after a 2-trillion-yen second extra budget for fiscal 2011 to finance reconstruction and relief works following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami was approved by the House of Representatives in Tokyo on July 20, 2011, before deliberations begin in the opposition-controlled House of Councillors.

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Kubota president in interview

OSAKA, Japan - Yasuo Masumoto, president of agricultural machinery builder Kubota Corp., speaks during an interview with Kyodo News at the company's headquarters in Osaka on Jan. 14, 2011. He said Kubota will seek to double group sales to 2 trillion yen in five years from some 930 billion yen in fiscal 2009.

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Japan Airlines files for bankruptcy protection

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines Corp. staff work at a check-in counter at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Jan. 19, 2010. Japan's top air carrier filed for bankruptcy protection the same day with group liabilities totaling over 2 trillion yen in the biggest nonfinancial corporate failure in Japan's postwar history.

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Japan Airlines files for bankruptcy protection

TOKYO, Japan - Passengers use automated check-in machines of Japan Airlines Corp. at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Jan. 19, 2010. Japan's top air carrier filed for bankruptcy protection the same day with group liabilities totaling over 2 trillion yen in the biggest nonfinancial corporate failure in Japan's postwar history.

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Japan Airlines files for bankruptcy protection

TOKYO, Japan - Officials of Japan Airlines Corp. leave the company's headquarters building in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Jan. 12, 2010, the day when Japan's top air carrier filed for bankruptcy protection with group liabilities totaling over 2 trillion yen.

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Japan Airlines files for bankruptcy protection

TOKYO, Japan - Officials of Japan Airlines Corp. leave the company's headquarters building in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Jan. 12, 2010, the day when Japan's top air carrier filed for bankruptcy protection with group liabilities totaling over 2 trillion yen.

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Japan Airlines files for bankruptcy protection

TOKYO, Japan - The headquarters building of Japan Airlines Corp. is silhouetted against the early evening sky in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Jan. 19, 2010. Japan's top air carrier filed for bankruptcy protection the same day with group liabilities totaling over 2 trillion yen in the biggest nonfinancial corporate failure in Japan's postwar history.

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Japan Airlines files for bankruptcy protection

TOKYO, Japan - A Japan Airlines Corp. plane comes in to land at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Jan. 19, 2010. Japan's top air carrier filed for bankruptcy protection the same day with group liabilities totaling over 2 trillion yen in the biggest nonfinancial corporate failure in Japan's postwar history.

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Deliberations on 2nd extra budget start in upper house

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa explains the government's submission of a 4.79 trillion yen second supplementary budget for fiscal 2008 at a House of Councillors Budget Committee session Jan. 19. Deliberations on the budget, which includes a controversial 2 trillion yen cash handout plan, began in the opposition-controlled upper house the same day.

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Aso to go for cash benefit program despite growing opposition

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso gives a speech at a meeting of secretaries general of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party's local branches at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 17. In the speech, the premier reiterated his resolve to implement a 2 trillion yen cash benefit program as planned, defending it as an effective measure to lift the slumping economy despite mounting opposition.

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2nd extra budget passes lower house despite opposition protest

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa leaves a House of Representatives plenary session Jan. 13 in protest at a vote on a second supplementary budget for fiscal 2008, aimed at reinvigorating the economy. The DPJ is opposed to a 2 trillion yen cash handout program included in the budget, which it sees as an attempt by the ruling bloc to buy votes.

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LDP's Matsunami submits resignation as parliamentary sec'y

TOKYO, Japan - Kenta Matsunami, parliamentary secretary for the Cabinet Office and a Liberal Democratic party lawmaker, speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office on Jan. 13 after submitting his resignation from the post to Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura, who accepted it. Matsunami is opposed to the 2 trillion yen allotted for a cash handout program.

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2nd extra budget passes lower house despite opposition protest

TOKYO, Japan - Former administrative reform minister Yoshimi Watanabe (C), a ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker, leaves a lower house plenary session before voting on a second supplementary budget for fiscal 2008. Watanabe said he was demonstrating his ''determination to protest'' against the 2 trillion yen cash handout program included in the budget.

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2nd extra budget passes lower house despite opposition protest

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers leave a House of Representatives plenary session Jan. 13 in protest at a vote on a second supplementary budget for fiscal 2008, aimed at reinvigorating the economy. The DPJ is opposed to a 2 trillion yen cash handout program included in the budget, which it sees as an attempt by the ruling bloc to buy votes.

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Diet debate starts, focus on cash benefit program

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama, secretary general of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, urges Prime Minister Taro Aso to step down or call a general election, criticizing a 2-trillion-yen cash benefit program Aso is pushing in the economic downturn. The program is a controversial topic during the Diet session.

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Diet debate starts, focus on cash benefit program

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso defends on Jan. 6 his 2-trillion-yen pet project of giving people cash benefits, answering questions posed by Yukio Hatoyama, secretary general of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, at a plenary session of the House of Representatives. Whether to implement the program in the economic downturn is a controversial topic during the Diet session.

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Takashimaya head sets sales goal to 2 tril. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Koji Suzuki, president of Takashimaya Co., speaks in an interview with Kyodo News, pledging a goal to bolster combined sales from the envisioned alliance between his department store and H2O Retailing Corp. to 2 trillion yen from the current 1.5 trillion yen in five years.

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Aso unveils 26.9 tril. yen new stimulus package to tackle crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso speaks about a new economic stimulus package at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 30. The package is worth 26.9 trillion yen to cushion the negative impact of the global financial crisis on people's livelihoods, featuring 2 trillion yen in cash benefits to be delivered to all households by the end of March.

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Aso unveils 26.9 tril. yen new stimulus package to tackle crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso speaks about a new economic stimulus package at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 30. The package is worth 26.9 trillion yen to cushion the negative impact of the global financial crisis on people's livelihoods, featuring 2 trillion yen in cash benefits to be delivered to all households by the end of March.

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Aso unveils 26.9 tril. yen new stimulus package to tackle crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso speaks about a new economic stimulus package at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 30. The package is worth 26.9 trillion yen to cushion the negative impact of the global financial crisis on people's livelihoods, featuring 2 trillion yen in cash benefits to be delivered to all households by the end of March.

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Softbank's full-year revenues top 2 tril. yen for 1st time

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son, former of the Internet conglomerate, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on May 8 where he announced that the company's group revenues more than doubled and topped 2 trillion yen for the first time in fiscal 2006, backed by fast-growing mobile phone and Internet services.

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Ruling camp calls for 2 tril. yen tax hike in FY 2006

TOKYO, Japan - Hakuo Yanagisawa, chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party's tax research panel, speaks at a press conference as his new Komeito party counterpart Chikara Sakaguchi listens. The governing coalition unveiled its tax reform outline for fiscal 2006, calling for a 2 trillion yen tax increase in the year beginning in April while alluding to raising the consumption tax in fiscal 2007.

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Shiokawa eyes 2 tril. yen tax cut

OSAKA, Japan - Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa addresses a gathering in Osaka on Aug. 23. Hesaid he thinks a proposed net 1 trillion yen tax cut in fiscal 2003 should be carried out by coupling a tax reduction of 2 trillion yen and a tax hike of 1 trillion yen.

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Ruling camp calls for 2 tril. yen tax hike in FY 2006

TOKYO, Japan - Hakuo Yanagisawa, chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party's tax research panel, speaks at a press conference as his new Komeito party counterpart Chikara Sakaguchi listens. The governing coalition unveiled its tax reform outline for fiscal 2006, calling for a 2 trillion yen tax increase in the year beginning in April while alluding to raising the consumption tax in fiscal 2007. (Kyodo)

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Softbank's full-year revenues top 2 tril. yen for 1st time

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son, former of the Internet conglomerate, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on May 8 where he announced that the company's group revenues more than doubled and topped 2 trillion yen for the first time in fiscal 2006, backed by fast-growing mobile phone and Internet services. (Kyodo)

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Aso unveils 26.9 tril. yen new stimulus package to tackle crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso speaks about a new economic stimulus package at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 30. The package is worth 26.9 trillion yen to cushion the negative impact of the global financial crisis on people's livelihoods, featuring 2 trillion yen in cash benefits to be delivered to all households by the end of March. (Kyodo)

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Aso unveils 26.9 tril. yen new stimulus package to tackle crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso speaks about a new economic stimulus package at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 30. The package is worth 26.9 trillion yen to cushion the negative impact of the global financial crisis on people's livelihoods, featuring 2 trillion yen in cash benefits to be delivered to all households by the end of March. (Kyodo)

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Aso unveils 26.9 tril. yen new stimulus package to tackle crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso speaks about a new economic stimulus package at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 30. The package is worth 26.9 trillion yen to cushion the negative impact of the global financial crisis on people's livelihoods, featuring 2 trillion yen in cash benefits to be delivered to all households by the end of March. (Kyodo)

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Aso unveils 26.9 tril. yen new stimulus package to tackle crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso speaks about a new economic stimulus package at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 30. The package is worth 26.9 trillion yen to cushion the negative impact of the global financial crisis on people's livelihoods, featuring 2 trillion yen in cash benefits to be delivered to all households by the end of March. (Kyodo)

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Takashimaya head sets sales goal to 2 tril. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Koji Suzuki, president of Takashimaya Co., speaks in an interview with Kyodo News, pledging a goal to bolster combined sales from the envisioned alliance between his department store and H2O Retailing Corp. to 2 trillion yen from the current 1.5 trillion yen in five years. (Kyodo)

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Diet debate starts, focus on cash benefit program

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama, secretary general of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, urges Prime Minister Taro Aso to step down or call a general election, criticizing a 2-trillion-yen cash benefit program Aso is pushing in the economic downturn. The program is a controversial topic during the Diet session. (Kyodo)

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Diet debate starts, focus on cash benefit program

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso defends on Jan. 6 his 2-trillion-yen pet project of giving people cash benefits, answering questions posed by Yukio Hatoyama, secretary general of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, at a plenary session of the House of Representatives. Whether to implement the program in the economic downturn is a controversial topic during the Diet session. (Kyodo)

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LDP's Matsunami submits resignation as parliamentary sec'y

TOKYO, Japan - Kenta Matsunami, parliamentary secretary for the Cabinet Office and a Liberal Democratic party lawmaker, speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office on Jan. 13 after submitting his resignation from the post to Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura, who accepted it. Matsunami is opposed to the 2 trillion yen allotted for a cash handout program. (Kyodo)

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2nd extra budget passes lower house despite opposition protest

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa leaves a House of Representatives plenary session Jan. 13 in protest at a vote on a second supplementary budget for fiscal 2008, aimed at reinvigorating the economy. The DPJ is opposed to a 2 trillion yen cash handout program included in the budget, which it sees as an attempt by the ruling bloc to buy votes. (Kyodo)

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2nd extra budget passes lower house despite opposition protest

TOKYO, Japan - Former administrative reform minister Yoshimi Watanabe (C), a ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker, leaves a lower house plenary session before voting on a second supplementary budget for fiscal 2008. Watanabe said he was demonstrating his ''determination to protest'' against the 2 trillion yen cash handout program included in the budget. (Kyodo)

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2nd extra budget passes lower house despite opposition protest

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers leave a House of Representatives plenary session Jan. 13 in protest at a vote on a second supplementary budget for fiscal 2008, aimed at reinvigorating the economy. The DPJ is opposed to a 2 trillion yen cash handout program included in the budget, which it sees as an attempt by the ruling bloc to buy votes. (Kyodo)

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Aso to go for cash benefit program despite growing opposition

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso gives a speech at a meeting of secretaries general of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party's local branches at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 17. In the speech, the premier reiterated his resolve to implement a 2 trillion yen cash benefit program as planned, defending it as an effective measure to lift the slumping economy despite mounting opposition. (Kyodo)

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Deliberations on 2nd extra budget start in upper house

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa explains the government's submission of a 4.79 trillion yen second supplementary budget for fiscal 2008 at a House of Councillors Budget Committee session Jan. 19. Deliberations on the budget, which includes a controversial 2 trillion yen cash handout plan, began in the opposition-controlled upper house the same day. (Kyodo)

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Shiokawa eyes 2 tril. yen tax cut

OSAKA, Japan - Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa addresses a gathering in Osaka on Aug. 23. Hesaid he thinks a proposed net 1 trillion yen tax cut in fiscal 2003 should be carried out by coupling a tax reduction of 2 trillion yen and a tax hike of 1 trillion yen. (Kyodo)

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Hitachi looks to double sales in North America to 2 tril. yen

Hitachi Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Hiroaki Nakanishi speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Las Vegas, the United States, on April 28, 2015. Nakanishi said the company aims to double its annual sales in North America to 2 trillion yen ($16.8 billion) without specifying a time frame. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan Airlines files for bankruptcy protection

TOKYO, Japan - A Japan Airlines Corp. plane comes in to land at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Jan. 19, 2010. Japan's top air carrier filed for bankruptcy protection the same day with group liabilities totaling over 2 trillion yen in the biggest nonfinancial corporate failure in Japan's postwar history. (Kyodo)

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Lower house OKs 2nd extra budget for quake-relief work

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) and his Cabinet members bow after a 2-trillion-yen second extra budget for fiscal 2011 to finance reconstruction and relief works following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami was approved by the House of Representatives in Tokyo on July 20, 2011, before deliberations begin in the opposition-controlled House of Councillors. (Kyodo)

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Japan Airlines files for bankruptcy protection

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines Corp. staff work at a check-in counter at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Jan. 19, 2010. Japan's top air carrier filed for bankruptcy protection the same day with group liabilities totaling over 2 trillion yen in the biggest nonfinancial corporate failure in Japan's postwar history. (Kyodo)

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Japan Airlines files for bankruptcy protection

TOKYO, Japan - Passengers use automated check-in machines of Japan Airlines Corp. at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Jan. 19, 2010. Japan's top air carrier filed for bankruptcy protection the same day with group liabilities totaling over 2 trillion yen in the biggest nonfinancial corporate failure in Japan's postwar history. (Kyodo)

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Japan Airlines files for bankruptcy protection

TOKYO, Japan - Officials of Japan Airlines Corp. leave the company's headquarters building in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Jan. 12, 2010, the day when Japan's top air carrier filed for bankruptcy protection with group liabilities totaling over 2 trillion yen. (Kyodo)