London, Jan 15 : In pursuit of comfort amid the ongoing credit crunch, Japanese residents are increasingly turning to stress-relieving pet robots, which resemble real pet cats and dogs.
Made by Sega Toys Co, the Dream Pet range of robotic domestic animals is especially designed to replicate the appearance and behaviour of pet cats and dogs.
The sales of the toys rose 30 per cent between October and December last year, as compared to the same months the previous year.
Tokyo - Nissan Motor Co was expected to incur an operating loss for the 2008-09 fiscal year that ends March 31 due to the slowdown of global car sales and a stronger yen, Japanese media reports said Thursday.
Nissan would log the first operating loss since Carlos Ghosn became the company's chief operating officer in 1999, when the company formed a business partnership with France's Renault SA.
The Japanese automaker lowered its projection for the year's operating profit from 550 billion yen (6.16 billion dollars) to 270 billion yen in October.
Tokyo - Sanyo Electric Co lowered its projections for operating profit and sales for the fiscal year 2008 that ends in March owing to the yen's advance and declining sales of electronics parts and semiconductors, the company said Thursday.
The Japanese home electronics maker revised downward its operating profit to 30 billion yen (335.78 million dollars) from an earlier projection of 50 billion yen.
Sanyo revised sales down to 1.9 trillion yen from 2.02 trillion yen.
Tokyo - Asia's young fashion designers are excited to expose their creations to the region's fashion capital Tokyo and eager to plant seeds for future business opportunities.
"I consider Japan as Asia's fashion capital," Pablo Mendez III of the Philippines said on Wednesday at JFW International Fashion Fair in Tokyo. "I admire the aesthetics of the way [Japanese] people put dresses together."
The Japanese capital is hosting the 19th JFW International Fashion Fair which started Wednesday, at a convention hall Big Sight Tokyo, drawing 730 companies from 15 nations and regions from around the world.
Tokyo - Japan's key machinery orders marked the largest fall on record in November as corporate capital investment shrank amid global economic slowdown, the government said Thursday.
The private-sector machinery orders dropped a seasonally adjusted 16.2 per cent from October to 754.2 billion yen (8.44 billion dollars).
The November decline shows a 27.7-per-cent drop in unadjusted terms from the same month a year before.
Tokyo - Tokyo stocks opened higher Friday on the back of an overnight rebound in the US market and a weaker yen.
London, Jan 15 : In pursuit of comfort amid the ongoing credit crunch, Japanese residents are increasingly turning to stress-relieving pet robots, which resemble real pet cats and dogs.
Tokyo - Nissan Motor Co was expected to incur an operating loss for the 2008-09 fiscal year that ends March 31 due to the slowdown of global car sales and a stronger yen, Japanese media reports said Thursday.
Tokyo - Sanyo Electric Co lowered its projections for operating profit and sales for the fiscal year 2008 that ends in March owing to the yen's advance and declining sales of electronics parts and semiconductors, the company said Thursday.
Tokyo - Japan's key machinery orders marked the largest fall on record in November as corporate capital investment shrank amid global economic slowdown, the government said Thursday.
