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Japan logs trade deficit of 38 bln USD in fiscal 2023

STORY: Japan logs trade deficit of 38 bln USD in fiscal 2023 SHOOTING TIME: file DATELINE: April 17, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:55 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of street view in Tokyo STORYLINE: Japan's trade deficit in fiscal 2023 shrank around 70 percent from a year earlier to 5.89 trillion yen (about 38 billion U.S. dollars), government data showed Wednesday. In the fiscal year ended March, exports expanded 3.7 percent to 102.90 trillion yen, topping 100 trillion yen for the first time and marking a record high for the third straight year, according to a preliminary Finance Ministry report. Automobile exports, which account for about 17 percent of Japan's total, grew 30.2 percent to 17.88 trillion yen, eclipsing the previous record of 14.67 trillion yen in fiscal 2007. In contrast, imports dived 10.3 percent to 108.79 trillion yen, falling for the first time in three years, chiefly reflecting falls in imports of coal and liquefied natural gas. With a weaker yen inflati

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China achieves breakthrough in ocean thermal energy power generation

STORY: China achieves breakthrough in ocean thermal energy power generation DATELINE: Sept. 13, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:14 LOCATION: GUANGZHOU, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the device STORYLINE: Chinese scientists and engineers have completed an offshore test of an ocean thermal energy electricity generation device in the South China Sea. The 20 kW device, developed chiefly by the Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey (GMGS) under direct control of the China Geological Survey, has returned to Guangzhou, capital city of the southern Guangdong Province, after the test was completed. During the test, the device generated electricity for four hours and 47 minutes, reaching a maximum power output of 16.4 kW. "This offshore test verified the theoretical viability of the indigenously-developed ocean thermal energy power generation system, as well as its practicability, marking a crucial step in China's journey to develop and harness ocean thermal energy, from the land test stage to offsh

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Yoshinoya to raise beef bowl price 27% to 380 yen

TOKYO, Japan - President Yasutaka Kawamura of Yoshinoya Holdings Co. says in Tokyo on Dec. 9, 2014, the "gyudon" beef bowl restaurant chain operator will raise the price of a regular-size bowl by 80 yen or 27% to 380 yen on Dec. 17 to cope with rising U.S. beef prices due chiefly to the weaker yen.

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Gov't to buy land around damaged Fukushima plant for waste storage

TOKYO, Japan - This aerial photo taken by a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 14, 2013, shows a coastal area in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, around the severely damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. The government plans to acquire about 19 square kilometers of land chiefly around the plant to build facilities for the long-term storage of radioactive and other waste piling up in the decontamination process.

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Foreign tourists swarm Tokyo discount store

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign tourists, mostly from China, buy souvenirs at discount store chain Don Quijote Co.'s Ginza outlet in Tokyo on Nov. 20, 2014. The number of foreign visitors to Japan topped 11 million in the first 10 months of 2014 in a record-setting pace backed chiefly by eased visa requirements for Asian nations, a weaker yen and tax exemption for a wider scope of consumer goods.

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Massive floats paraded at southwestern Japan festival

SAGA, Japan - Several massive floats made chiefly of wood and lacquer are paraded along a street in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, at the annual "Karatsu Kunchi" festival on Nov. 3, 2014.

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Giving 'little gifts' a fad among young people

TOKYO, Japan - A staffer at Meiji Seika Kaisha Ltd.'s "100% Chocolate Cafe" in Tokyo holds a set of chocolates to be sold chiefly as "little gifts" on Sept. 4, 2014. Many confectionary companies are developing their own goodies as today's young people often give small presents to their bosses, colleagues, etc. irrespective of the season.

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Long queue of trucks at Turkey checkpoint bordering Syria

KILIS, Turkey - Many trucks carrying chiefly construction materials wait in a long queue to pass through a border crossing in southern Turkey bordering Syria on Aug. 19, 2014, three days after the abduction of a Japanese by Islamic State militants was announced.

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Lawyer criticizes foreign workers' bad conditions

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese lawyer Shoichi Ibusuki (R) explains the poor working conditions foreign trainees are forced to endure, including low wages, in this file photo taken in June 2009. Workers chiefly from Asian countries are subjected to conditions of forced labor, sometimes through the government's industrial training and technical internship program.

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'Akita Kanto Festival' held in Yamagata

YAMAGATA, Japan - The Akita Kanto Festival of Akita Prefecture is held on May 24, 2014 in Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture. The festival is among six festivals typical of the Tohoku region, dubbed "the Tohoku Rokkonsai (six soul festival)" intended chiefly for the repose of souls of people who perished in the 2011 earthquake in northeastern Japan.

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'Morioka Sansa Odori' performed in Yamagata

YAMAGATA, Japan - A team of "taiko" drummers, dancers and pipers perform the Iwate Prefecture-originated "Morioka Sansa Odori" dance in Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture, on May 24, 2014 as part of "the Tohoku Rokkonsai (six soul festival)" chiefly intended to comfort the spirits of a number of people who died in the 2011 earthquake in northeastern Japan.

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Socks resembling sushi in Toyama Pref.

TOYAMA, Japan - Product-planning manager Takashi Matsumoto of socks maker Sukeno Co. in Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, shows various socks resembling sushi in the city on May 12, 2014. The central Japanese company facing the Sea of Japan wishes to sell them as souvenirs chiefly targeting travelers from abroad.

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Honda Crider

BEIJING, China - Honda Motor Co. unveils the Crider sedan in Beijing on June 26, 2013. Crider is Honda's first model developed chiefly by Chinese associates for consumers in China.

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Biodiversity conference in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Participants in the COP 10 international biodiversity conference discuss sticking issues during a recess of a working group session in Nagoya on Oct. 22, 2010. Developing and developed countries have clashed chiefly over the scale of finance needed to achieve new international targets for stopping the loss of biological diversity.

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Free soup for women

TOKYO, Japan - Ajinomoto Co. offers free miso soup and clear Japanese soups chiefly for woman at the Dashi Cafe in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2010, in an effort to promote ''dashi'' Japanese soup stock.

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Free soup for women

TOKYO, Japan - Ajinomoto Co. offers free miso soup and clear Japanese soups chiefly for woman at the Dashi Cafe in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2010, in an effort to promote ''dashi'' Japanese soup stock.

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Panasonic may mark over 300 bil. yen in FY 2008 group net loss

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken on Jan. 28, 2009, shows the headquarters of Panasonic Corp. in Osaka. Panasonic is expected to report more than 300 billion yen in consolidated net loss in the business year through March due chiefly to additional outlays needed to streamline its manufacturing operations and valuation losses on its stock holdings, sources familiar with the matter said Feb. 1.

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Toyota expects 1st operating profit fall in 9 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Katsuaki Watanabe speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on May 8 on the automaker's business results in fiscal 2007. Toyota posted record-high sales and profits in fiscal 2007 as solid vehicle sales in emerging economies and oil-producing nations offset adverse factors. But its group operating profit is projected to fall 29.5 percent to 1.6 trillion yen in fiscal 2008, down for the first time in nine years, due chiefly to the strong yen against the dollar and other key currencies and a slump in the North American auto market.

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Toshiba cuts FY 2007 profit forecasts

TOKYO, Japan - Fumio Muraoka, executive vice president of Toshiba Corp., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 19. Muraoka said Toshiba has cut its group net profit projection for the business year through March 31 by 30.6 percent from its previous estimate to 125 billion yen due chiefly to its withdrawal from the HD DVD business.

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Japan decides to introduce missile defense shield

TOKYO, Japan - The Security Council, Japan' top defense policy board, decided Dec. 19 to introduce a missile defense shield to deal chiefly with the possibility of ballistic missile attacks from North Korea. Toru Ishikawa (L), chairman of the Joint Staff Council, and other uniformed staff leave the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 19 after the council meeting.

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(2)Japan decides to introduce missile defense shield

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Agency Director General Shigeru Ishiba walks into the prime minister's office to attend a session of the Security Council on Dec. 19. The cabinet decided to introduce a missile defense shield in fiscal 2004 to deal chiefly with the possibility of ballistic missile attacks from North Korea.

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Toshiba's group net balance sinks into red

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. Vice President Kiyoaki Shimagami speaks at a news conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 25. The electronics equipment giant said its group net balance sank into the red in the year to March 31, 2001 due chiefly to poor sales and price cuts in information technology products such as computer memory chips.

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Suzuki announces he will quit LDP

TOKYO, Japan - Lawmaker Muneo Suzuki tells a news conference at Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) headquarters in Tokyo on March 15 he will quit the party. Suzuki made the announcement after the LDP Political Ethics Hearing Committee questioned him over various scandals, chiefly concerning his involvement in Foreign Ministry affairs, earlier in the day.

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Kamei holds 'town hall meeting' to drum up support for LDP

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei (C), policy affairs chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, on Feb. 24 fields questions from 16 members of the public about issues ranging from the recent sub-ship collision to education and sagging stock prices at an event at party headquarters. The event, held to drum up support chiefly from undecided voters ahead of this summer's House of Councillors election, lasted for some two hours, with Kamei responding to queries from the floor.

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Cohen arrives in Tokyo for four-day visit

U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen arrives in Tokyo Jan. 11 for a four-day visit to discuss the North Korean situation, bilateral defense guidelines and issues related to U.S. military bases in Okinawa Prefecture. Cohen is scheduled to leave for South Korea Jan. 14. His weeklong tour is intended chiefly to reaffirm U.S. cooperation with its two close Asian allies over North Korea.

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FRANCE-ECONOMY-CPI-INFLATION

(220819) -- PARIS, Aug. 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People fill the tanks of their cars at a gas station near Paris, France, Aug. 18, 2022. Due chiefly to the growing prices of services, food products and to a lesser extent manufactured goods, the yearly inflation in France stood at 6.8 percent in July, according to data published last week by the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). Food prices increased by 6.8 percent in July from 5.8 percent in June. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)

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FRANCE-ECONOMY-CPI-INFLATION

(220819) -- PARIS, Aug. 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People fill the tanks of their cars at a gas station near Paris, France, Aug. 18, 2022. Due chiefly to the growing prices of services, food products and to a lesser extent manufactured goods, the yearly inflation in France stood at 6.8 percent in July, according to data published last week by the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). Food prices increased by 6.8 percent in July from 5.8 percent in June. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)

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FRANCE-ECONOMY-CPI-INFLATION

(220819) -- PARIS, Aug. 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A man fills the tank of his car at a gas station near Paris, France, Aug. 18, 2022. Due chiefly to the growing prices of services, food products and to a lesser extent manufactured goods, the yearly inflation in France stood at 6.8 percent in July, according to data published last week by the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). Food prices increased by 6.8 percent in July from 5.8 percent in June. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)

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FRANCE-ECONOMY-CPI-INFLATION

(220819) -- PARIS, Aug. 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A woman fills the tank of her car at a gas station near Paris, France, Aug. 18, 2022. Due chiefly to the growing prices of services, food products and to a lesser extent manufactured goods, the yearly inflation in France stood at 6.8 percent in July, according to data published last week by the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). Food prices increased by 6.8 percent in July from 5.8 percent in June. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)

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FRANCE-ECONOMY-CPI-INFLATION

(220819) -- PARIS, Aug. 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A man fills the tank of his car at a gas station near Paris, France, Aug. 18, 2022. Due chiefly to the growing prices of services, food products and to a lesser extent manufactured goods, the yearly inflation in France stood at 6.8 percent in July, according to data published last week by the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). Food prices increased by 6.8 percent in July from 5.8 percent in June. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)

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Suzuki announces he will quit LDP

TOKYO, Japan - Lawmaker Muneo Suzuki tells a news conference at Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) headquarters in Tokyo on March 15 he will quit the party. Suzuki made the announcement after the LDP Political Ethics Hearing Committee questioned him over various scandals, chiefly concerning his involvement in Foreign Ministry affairs, earlier in the day.

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Toshiba cuts FY 2007 profit forecasts

TOKYO, Japan - Fumio Muraoka, executive vice president of Toshiba Corp., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 19. Muraoka said Toshiba has cut its group net profit projection for the business year through March 31 by 30.6 percent from its previous estimate to 125 billion yen due chiefly to its withdrawal from the HD DVD business. (Kyodo)

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Toyota expects 1st operating profit fall in 9 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Katsuaki Watanabe speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on May 8 on the automaker's business results in fiscal 2007. Toyota posted record-high sales and profits in fiscal 2007 as solid vehicle sales in emerging economies and oil-producing nations offset adverse factors. But its group operating profit is projected to fall 29.5 percent to 1.6 trillion yen in fiscal 2008, down for the first time in nine years, due chiefly to the strong yen against the dollar and other key currencies and a slump in the North American auto market. (Kyodo)

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Panasonic may mark over 300 bil. yen in FY 2008 group net loss

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken on Jan. 28, 2009, shows the headquarters of Panasonic Corp. in Osaka. Panasonic is expected to report more than 300 billion yen in consolidated net loss in the business year through March due chiefly to additional outlays needed to streamline its manufacturing operations and valuation losses on its stock holdings, sources familiar with the matter said Feb. 1. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba's group net balance sinks into red

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. Vice President Kiyoaki Shimagami speaks at a news conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 25. The electronics equipment giant said its group net balance sank into the red in the year to March 31, 2001 due chiefly to poor sales and price cuts in information technology products such as computer memory chips.

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Fast Retailing pledges $10 mil. to U.N. agency for refugee support

Tadashi Yanai (L), president and CEO of Fast Retailing Co., and Antonio Guterres, head of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, shake hands in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2015. The Japanese maker of Uniqlo casual wear said it will provide $10 million over the next three years to the U.N. agency to be used chiefly for emergency aid and donate winter clothes to families seeking asylum in Europe and Afghanistan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sumitomo Corp. expects 1st net loss in 16 years for FY 2014

Sumitomo Corp. President Kuniharu Nakamura tells a press conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2015, the trading giant is expecting a group net loss of 85 billion yen ($710 million) in fiscal 2014, the first net loss in 16 years, due chiefly to failed energy development projects in the United States, Brazil and elsewhere. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Biodiversity conference in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Participants in the COP 10 international biodiversity conference discuss sticking issues during a recess of a working group session in Nagoya on Oct. 22, 2010. Developing and developed countries have clashed chiefly over the scale of finance needed to achieve new international targets for stopping the loss of biological diversity. (Kyodo)

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Free soup for women

TOKYO, Japan - Ajinomoto Co. offers free miso soup and clear Japanese soups chiefly for woman at the Dashi Cafe in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2010, in an effort to promote ''dashi'' Japanese soup stock.(Kyodo)

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Free soup for women

TOKYO, Japan - Ajinomoto Co. offers free miso soup and clear Japanese soups chiefly for woman at the Dashi Cafe in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2010, in an effort to promote ''dashi'' Japanese soup stock.(Kyodo)

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Beggars

Beggars are usually regarded as drop-outs from society, but making a living from begging was sometimes a religious or artistic activity. As the times moved on however, it became chiefly a means for the poor to obtain money and food.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number13‐7‐0]

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Yoshinoya to raise beef bowl price 27% to 380 yen

TOKYO, Japan - President Yasutaka Kawamura of Yoshinoya Holdings Co. says in Tokyo on Dec. 9, 2014, the "gyudon" beef bowl restaurant chain operator will raise the price of a regular-size bowl by 80 yen or 27% to 380 yen on Dec. 17 to cope with rising U.S. beef prices due chiefly to the weaker yen. (Kyodo)

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Foreign tourists swarm Tokyo discount store

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign tourists, mostly from China, buy souvenirs at discount store chain Don Quijote Co.'s Ginza outlet in Tokyo on Nov. 20, 2014. The number of foreign visitors to Japan topped 11 million in the first 10 months of 2014 in a record-setting pace backed chiefly by eased visa requirements for Asian nations, a weaker yen and tax exemption for a wider scope of consumer goods. (Kyodo)

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Massive floats paraded at southwestern Japan festival

SAGA, Japan - Several massive floats made chiefly of wood and lacquer are paraded along a street in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, at the annual "Karatsu Kunchi" festival on Nov. 3, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Giving 'little gifts' a fad among young people

TOKYO, Japan - A staffer at Meiji Seika Kaisha Ltd.'s "100% Chocolate Cafe" in Tokyo holds a set of chocolates to be sold chiefly as "little gifts" on Sept. 4, 2014. Many confectionary companies are developing their own goodies as today's young people often give small presents to their bosses, colleagues, etc. irrespective of the season. (Kyodo)

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Lawyer criticizes foreign workers' bad conditions

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese lawyer Shoichi Ibusuki (R) explains the poor working conditions foreign trainees are forced to endure, including low wages, in this file photo taken in June 2009. Workers chiefly from Asian countries are subjected to conditions of forced labor, sometimes through the government's industrial training and technical internship program. (Kyodo)

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Bernhard Maier

Car maker Skoda Auto invested more than EUR500m (some Kc12.8bn) in its Czech plants in 2018, and it will invest EUR2bn (some Kc51.2bn) in electromobility and new mobility solutions in the next four years, the company said at its annual press conference today, on Wednesday, March 20, 2019. The company's business results were affected by large investments in new technology - electromobility and digitisation, higher personnel costs and unfavourable exchange rates, board chairman Bernhard Maier said. Other reasons included new emission standard WLTP, and geopolitics, chiefly the US-Chinese trade dispute and Brexit. (CTK Photo/Radek Petrasek)

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Bohdan Wojnar, Bernhard Maier, Klaus-Dieter Schurmann

Car maker Skoda Auto invested more than EUR500m (some Kc12.8bn) in its Czech plants in 2018, and it will invest EUR2bn (some Kc51.2bn) in electromobility and new mobility solutions in the next four years, the company said at its annual press conference today, on Wednesday, March 20, 2019. The company's business results were affected by large investments in new technology - electromobility and digitisation, higher personnel costs and unfavourable exchange rates, board chairman Bernhard Maier (centre) said. Other reasons included new emission standard WLTP, and geopolitics, chiefly the US-Chinese trade dispute and Brexit. Board members Klaus-Dieter Schurmann (left) and Bohdan Wojnar (right). (CTK Photo/Radek Petrasek)

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Bernhard Maier

Car maker Skoda Auto invested more than EUR500m (some Kc12.8bn) in its Czech plants in 2018, and it will invest EUR2bn (some Kc51.2bn) in electromobility and new mobility solutions in the next four years, the company said at its annual press conference today, on Wednesday, March 20, 2019. The company's business results were affected by large investments in new technology - electromobility and digitisation, higher personnel costs and unfavourable exchange rates, board chairman Bernhard Maier said. Other reasons included new emission standard WLTP, and geopolitics, chiefly the US-Chinese trade dispute and Brexit. (CTK Photo/Radek Petrasek)

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Bernhard Maier

Car maker Skoda Auto invested more than EUR500m (some Kc12.8bn) in its Czech plants in 2018, and it will invest EUR2bn (some Kc51.2bn) in electromobility and new mobility solutions in the next four years, the company said at its annual press conference today, on Wednesday, March 20, 2019. The company's business results were affected by large investments in new technology - electromobility and digitisation, higher personnel costs and unfavourable exchange rates, board chairman Bernhard Maier said. Other reasons included new emission standard WLTP, and geopolitics, chiefly the US-Chinese trade dispute and Brexit. (CTK Photo/Radek Petrasek)