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The number of Fast Retailing Co.’s overseas Uniqlo stores outnumbered its domestic outlets for the first time at the end of November, the company said. Fast Retailing had 864 of the casual clothing stores overseas and 844 in Japan, it said Wednesday. It now plans to speed up store openings ...

A labor group whose members include Toyota Motor Corp., Hitachi Ltd. and Panasonic Corp.’s unions said they will seek half the minimum wage increase in 2016 compared with its plans entering this fiscal year. The Japan Council of Metalworkers’ Unions said its members intend to request raises of ¥3,000 or ...

Toshiba Corp. will forgo bonuses to all 33 executive officers for the current business year as managers take responsibility for an accounting scandal, company officials said Thursday. The move is aimed at restoring trust in the company as soon as possible, the officials said. The performance-linked payment, usually paid in ...

Innovation Network Corp. of Japan has put off a plan to invest about ¥200 billion in Sharp Corp. after the government-backed fund failed to agree on terms with the struggling company’s banks, sources said. The fund, known as INCJ, instead will discuss a plan with Sharp’s creditors to spin off ...

The nation is probably set to receive more LNG than it needs, potentially forcing some purchasers in the world’s biggest user of the fuel to resell cargoes and add to a glut. Liquefied natural gas volumes contracted by Japanese buyers may exceed their combined demand from 2017 to 2021, according ...

Japan Inc.’s currency cookie jar may be just about empty. That’s the message in forecasts for the yen, whose three-year slide under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe underpinned the expansion of profits to an all-time high and a doubling of stock prices. The benefits went even further: Every year, big exporters ...

Shoppers spent more than $3 billion online this “Cyber Monday,” making it the biggest online shopping day ever. Research firm comScore said shopping by phone, laptop or tablet jumped 21 percent to $3.11 billion Monday. The 10-year-old shopping holiday has lost some of its luster as retailers push sales forward ...

Japan is closing in on becoming the fourth nation to test fly its own stealth jet, a move that could further antagonize neighboring Asian countries that oppose Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s bid to strengthen the role of the Self-Defense Forces. The aircraft is scheduled to make its maiden flight within ...

U.S. regional airlines are preparing to ask the government to loosen 2013 pilot safety restrictions they say have unnecessarily caused a shortage of qualified flight crews. The airlines, which perform about half of all air-carrier flights under contract to mainline operators, want to be able to hire pilots with fewer ...