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TOKYO: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries says it is halving the annual development budget for Japan’s first regional jet in half a century, the M90 SpaceJet, as the coronavirus pandemic squeezes profits. …

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Sony Corp. presented Thursday the world’s first image sensors with built-in artificial intelligence, promising to make data-gathering tasks much faster and more secure. Calling it the first of its kind, …

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Nissan Motor Co. plans to cut its global production capacity by 20 percent from the current level by fiscal 2022, as the spread of the new coronavirus has led to …

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Major mobile phone carriers KDDI Corp. and SoftBank Corp. saw their group operating profits hit record highs in fiscal 2019, which ended in March, while rival NTT Docomo Inc. posted …

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Mazda Motor Corp. said Thursday its group net profit sank 80.8 percent in fiscal 2019 from a year earlier, to ¥12.13 billion ($113 million), on sales declines in global markets …

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OMAHA, Neb: U.S. meat exports are surging even as the industry is struggling to meet domestic demand because of coronavirus outbreaks at processing plants that have sickened hundreds of workers …

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TOKYO (AP) : Japanese electronics and entertainment company Sony Corp. reported Wednesday that its quarterly profit tumbled as the coronavirus pandemic delayed music and movie releases and disrupted product supply chains. Tokyo-based Sony’s profit …

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