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Nissan sees 1st operating profit fall in 8 yrs on slack sales

TOKYO, Japan - Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn answers a media question at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 26. The company said its group operating profit in the first half of fiscal 2006 fell 15.3 percent from a year before to 348.65 billion yen on sluggish sales, marking the first such profit fall since 1998, before Ghosn took the automaker's helm.

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Boom for digital cameras

OSAKA, Japan, - Digital cameras are selling briskly in Japan, with shipments rising 7 percent to 1.18 million devices in fiscal 1998 end March 31, 1999. The cameras, which translate electrical impulses into pictures that can be seen on computers, are shown at a discount shop for electronics appliances in downtown Osaka on July 17.

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Emperor addresses the Diet

Emperor Akihito addresses the opening of an 18-day extraordinary session of the Diet (parliament) on Friday, Nov. 27. The extra session will deliberate a third supplementary budget for fiscal 1998 and a bill to revise the Fiscal Structural Reform Law.

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Supplementary budget enacted

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (R), Finance Minster Hikaru Matsunaga (L) bow to members of the upper house who voted into law a 4.6 trillion yen fiscal 1998 supplementary budget Wednesday June 17. This pave the way for long-awaited full-scale implementation of the latest government economic stimulus package worth 16.65 trillion yen.

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Diet approves FY '98 state budget

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (R) bows at a plenary session of the House of Councillors after the fiscal 1998 state budget is approved by the upper chamber April 8. Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi is second from right, Finance Minister Hikaru Matsunagathird from right and Chief Cabinet Secretary Kanezo Muraoka at left.

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Nissan sees 1st operating profit fall in 8 yrs on slack sales

TOKYO, Japan - Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn answers a media question at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 26. The company said its group operating profit in the first half of fiscal 2006 fell 15.3 percent from a year before to 348.65 billion yen on sluggish sales, marking the first such profit fall since 1998, before Ghosn took the automaker's helm. (Kyodo)

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Japan eyes higher food self-sufficiency

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tokuichiro Tamazawa addresses a meeting of government advisers March 9. He presented a plan to boost Japan's self-sufficiency in food to 45% in fiscal 2010 from an estimated 40% in fiscal 1998.

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Boom for digital cameras

OSAKA, Japan, - Digital cameras are selling briskly in Japan, with shipments rising 7 percent to 1.18 million devices in fiscal 1998 end March 31, 1999. The cameras, which translate electrical impulses into pictures that can be seen on computers, are shown at a discount shop for electronics appliances in downtown Osaka on July 17.

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Boom for digital cameras

OSAKA, Japan, - Digital cameras are selling briskly in Japan, with shipments rising 7 percent to 1.18 million devices in fiscal 1998 end March 31, 1999. The cameras, which translate electrical impulses into pictures that can be seen on computers, are shown at a discount shop for electronics appliances in downtown Osaka on July 17.

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Emperor addresses the Diet

Emperor Akihito addresses the opening of an 18-day extraordinary session of the Diet (parliament) Friday Nov. 27. The extra session will deliberate a third supplementary budget for fiscal 1998 and a bill to revise the Fiscal Structural Reform Law.

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Toyota revises output forecast d

Hiroshi Okuda, president of Japan's auto giant Toyota Motor Co., speaks to reporters at a Nagoya hotel Wednesday July 22. He announced a downward revision of the company's fiscal 1998 domestic auto production forecast from 3.44 million to 3.20 million vehicles. ==Kyodo

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Supplementary budget enacted

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (R), Finance Minster Hikaru Matsunaga (L) bow to members of the upper house who voted into law a 4.6 trillion yen fiscal 1998 supplementary budget Wednesday June 17. This pave the way for long-awaited full-scale implementation of the latest government economic stimulus package worth 16.65 trillion yen. ==Kyodo

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Diet approves FY '98 state budge

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (R) bows at a plenary session of the House of Councillors after the fiscal 1998 state budget is approved by the upper chamber April 8. Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi is second from right, Finance Minister Hikaru Matsunaga third from right and Chief Cabinet Secretary Kanezo Muraoka at left.