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Toyota posts record 1st-half profits

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyori Kodaira (C), executive vice president of Toyota Motor Corp., smiles as he is surrounded by reporters after a press conference in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Nov. 5, 2014, on the automaker's earnings for the first half of fiscal 2014. Toyota posted a record group operating profit of 1.35 trillion yen for the six months to Sept. 30, up 7.7 percent from a year earlier. Net profit rose 12.6 percent to a record 1.13 trillion yen.

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Toyota posts record 1st-half profits

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyori Kodaira, executive vice president of Toyota Motor Corp., holds a press conference in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Nov. 5, 2014, on the automaker's earnings for the first half of fiscal 2014. Toyota posted a record group operating profit of 1.35 trillion yen for the six months to Sept. 30, up 7.7 percent from a year earlier. Net profit rose 12.6 percent to a record 1.13 trillion yen.

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Toyota posts record 1st-half profits

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyori Kodaira, executive vice president of Toyota Motor Corp., holds a press conference in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Nov. 5, 2014, on the automaker's earnings for the first half of fiscal 2014. Toyota posted a record group operating profit of 1.35 trillion yen for the six months to Sept. 30, up 7.7 percent from a year earlier. Net profit rose 12.6 percent to a record 1.13 trillion yen.

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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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Toyota expects 36% profit jump

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda (L) and Nobuyori Kodaira, an executive vice president, attend a press conference in Tokyo on May 8, 2013, to release the company's earnings report for the just-ended fiscal 2012 and earnings forecast for fiscal 2013. Japan's largest automaker said it expects to book a group operating profit of 1.8 trillion yen for the current business year ending in March 2014, up 36.3 percent from the year before, on the back of a weaker yen and brisk sales in North America and Asia.

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China tables new plan in gas talks with Japan

BEIJING, China - Kenichiro Sasae (R) and Nobuyori Kodaira, Japanese delegates to Japan-China negotiations on exploration rights in the East China Sea, speaks with reporters at the end of talks in Beijing on March 7. China produced a new proposal and Japan promised to look into it, Sasae said.

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Japan, China to meet for 2nd day of talks over gas row

BEIJING, China - Nobuyori Kodaira, director general of the Natural Resources and Energy Agency, responds to questions from reporters at a Beijing hotel on March 7 before Japan and China meet for a second day of talks aimed at solving a dispute over gas exploration rights in the East China Sea, after failing to bridge their differences the previous day.

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Japanese delegates arrive in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Nobuyori Kodaira (L), head of the Natural Resources and Energy Agency, and Kenichiro Sasae, head of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, speaks to reporters on arrival at a Beijing hotel on Jan. 8 for talks with Chinese officials.

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Japan, China split over gas fields but agree to meet again

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Japanese delegate Kenichiro Sasae (L) and Nobuyori Kodaira (R), director general of the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, hold a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 1 after talks with China on Chinese gas and oil exploration in East China Sea fields. The two countries remained at odds but agreed to meet again later this month to weigh possible joint development.

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China rejects Japan's call to halt gas projects

BEIJING, China - Kenichiro Sasae (L), director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and Nobuyori Kodaira, head of the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, speak to reporters after two days of talks with Chinese officials in Beijing on May 31. China turned down Japan's request to halt its gas projects in the East China Sea but made a detailed proposal for easing the dispute, they said.

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China tables new plan in gas talks with Japan

BEIJING, China - Kenichiro Sasae (R) and Nobuyori Kodaira, Japanese delegates to Japan-China negotiations on exploration rights in the East China Sea, speaks with reporters at the end of talks in Beijing on March 7. China produced a new proposal and Japan promised to look into it, Sasae said. (Kyodo)

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Japan, China to meet for 2nd day of talks over gas row

BEIJING, China - Nobuyori Kodaira, director general of the Natural Resources and Energy Agency, responds to questions from reporters at a Beijing hotel on March 7 before Japan and China meet for a second day of talks aimed at solving a dispute over gas exploration rights in the East China Sea, after failing to bridge their differences the previous day. (Kyodo)

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Japan, China split over gas fields but agree to meet again

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Japanese delegate Kenichiro Sasae (L) and Nobuyori Kodaira (R), director general of the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, hold a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 1 after talks with China on Chinese gas and oil exploration in East China Sea fields. The two countries remained at odds but agreed to meet again later this month to weigh possible joint development. (Kyodo)

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Toyota 'Mirai' fuel-cell cars delivered to local gov'ts in central Japan

Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura (far R) and Toyota Motor Corp. Executive Vice President Nobuyori Kodaira (2nd from L) join other officials in a ceremony at the Aichi prefectural government office in Nagoya, central Japan, on Jan. 20, 2015, marking the delivery of two of the automaker's "Mirai" fuel-cell sedans for official use by the prefectural and Toyota city governments. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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China rejects Japan's call to halt gas projects

BEIJING, China - Kenichiro Sasae (L), director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and Nobuyori Kodaira, head of the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, speak to reporters after two days of talks with Chinese officials in Beijing on May 31. China turned down Japan's request to halt its gas projects in the East China Sea but made a detailed proposal for easing the dispute, they said. (Kyodo)

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Japanese delegates arrive in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Nobuyori Kodaira (L), head of the Natural Resources and Energy Agency, and Kenichiro Sasae, head of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, speaks to reporters on arrival at a Beijing hotel on Jan. 8 for talks with Chinese officials. (Kyodo)

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Toyota posts record 1st-half profits

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyori Kodaira (C), executive vice president of Toyota Motor Corp., smiles as he is surrounded by reporters after a press conference in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Nov. 5, 2014, on the automaker's earnings for the first half of fiscal 2014. Toyota posted a record group operating profit of 1.35 trillion yen for the six months to Sept. 30, up 7.7 percent from a year earlier. Net profit rose 12.6 percent to a record 1.13 trillion yen. (Kyodo)

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Toyota posts record 1st-half profits

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyori Kodaira, executive vice president of Toyota Motor Corp., holds a press conference in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Nov. 5, 2014, on the automaker's earnings for the first half of fiscal 2014. Toyota posted a record group operating profit of 1.35 trillion yen for the six months to Sept. 30, up 7.7 percent from a year earlier. Net profit rose 12.6 percent to a record 1.13 trillion yen. (Kyodo)