Osaka, Japan - Japanese electronics manufacturer Onkyo will release its first Blu-ray player this autumn.

Tokyo - Apple Inc's iPhone 3G debuted Friday in Tokyo, attracting more than 1,500 fans to the first sale, before being launched in the rest of the nation.

A long queue formed outside Softbank Mobile Corp's flagship store in Tokyo's fashionable Omotesando district early Friday morning.

"I want to try what's available on the iPhone as far as the new software goes," Jiji Press quoted a 25-year-old Japanese university student as saying. He travelled to Tokyo from Nagoya City in central Japan to win the first spot in the queue.

Sales of the iPhone were expected to help Japan's third-largest mobile phone carrier Softbank Mobile beat its rivals NTT DoCoMo Inc and KDDI Corp and lead the domestic market.

Tokyo - Tokyo stocks opened lower Friday as market sentiment was battered by a rise in oil prices.

Tokyo - Japan's current account surplus in May fell 5.9 per cent to 2 trillion yen (18.64 billion dollars) from a year earlier, the Finance Ministry said Thursday.

Tokyo - Tokyo stocks opened lower Thursday due to concerns over credit woes ahead of upcoming earnings reports of US financial institutions. 

Tokyo - Tokyo stocks opened lower Thursday due to concerns over credit woes ahead of upcoming earnings reports of US financial institutions.