Toshiba Corp. President Masashi Muromachi vowed Wednesday to rebuild trust in the electronics and machinery giant after an accounting scandal. “We’re resolved to do all we can to win back trust and restore the value of the firm,” Muromachi told a general shareholders meeting ...

Stocks turned lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday amid a wait-and-see mood ahead of Britain’s referendum Thursday on whether to leave the European Union. The Nikkei average lost 103.39 points, or 0.64 percent, to close at 16,065.72. On Tuesday, it advanced 203.81 points. ...

SoftBank Corp. is selling its stake in Finnish game developer Supercell to Chinese technology firm Tencent in a deal announced Tuesday that values the company at about $10.2 billion. Under the deal announced by the three companies, Tokyo-based SoftBank will relinquish its stake in ...

Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn, one of Japan’s best-paid executives, received more than ¥1 billion ($9.58 million) in pay for the second straight year after the carmaker’s profit climbed to a record. Ghosn, 62, was paid a total of ¥1.07 billion for the ...

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. forecast its first loss in eight years after setting aside compensation costs related to manipulating fuel-efficiency ratings and falsifying test data. Net loss in the year ending March 31 will probably be ¥145 billion ($1.4 billion), the company said in a ...

A face representing “rolling on the floor laughing” and a hand taking a selfie are among 72 new emojis that will soon make their way to your smartphone. The California-based Unicode Consortium, which controls emoji standards, has released a list of the new characters. ...

Swiss company Nestle will offer on-the-job training for 300,000 African youths to offset high unemployment that poses “severe economic and social challenges” for the continent, the company announced Tuesday. “We’re going to create more than 3,000 internships and apprenticeships in African countries by the ...

A $35,000 payment for “web advertising” in Donald Trump’s most recent campaign finance filings is turning heads because of the firm’s name: Draper Sterling. “Draper” and “Sterling” are the last names of two characters in the television show Mad Men, a fictional drama about ...

U.S. aerospace giant Boeing and Iran Air confirmed Tuesday a tentative deal for the sale of passenger planes, in what could prove a landmark for easing in the difficult U.S.-Iran relationship. The deal, valued as much as $25 billion, would be the largest between ...

A former Google executive who was seen as the heir apparent to the founder of mobile communications giant SoftBank has resigned because of a conflict over the timeline for his succession, the company announced Tuesday. SoftBank had just hours earlier cleared Nikesh Arora after ...

The transport ministry gives Mitsubishi Motors the go-ahead to keep making four minicars tainted by its fuel-efficiency scandal that get 11 percent worse mileage than advertised.

The dollar was steady around ¥104.50 in late Tokyo trading on Tuesday after erasing early losses when stocks rose. At 5 p.m., it stood at ¥104.46-47, compared with ¥104.54-54 at the same time Monday. The euro was at $1.1339-1340, against $1.1340-1340, and at ¥118.46-47, ...