Toyota says China sales in April up 68 percent over year ago

China sales by Japan's Toyota Motor Corp and its two local joint-venture partners rose 68 percent in April from a year earlier to about 81,700 vehicles, according to a company spokesman. For the first ...

TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares rose Wednesday as Japan's benchmark surged to its highest level since Sept. 2008 though wariness over corporate earnings pulled European indexes lower in early trading.

BySeth Walters:Recently, the Japanese government undertook the purchase of a group of small islands from a private Japanese landowner. The Chinese call these islands Diaoyu and the Japanese call them Senkaku,. This has launched an immense firestorm of riots and protests in China, with the Chinese government pleading for people to be calm, aggressively stationing military around the islands, and discussing potential economic sanctions on Japan.

The global economy took another turn for the worse as Japan plunged into recession following two consecutive quarters of growth. Please consider Japan’s economy shrinks annualized 3.5%. Japan’s economy shrank an annualised 3.5 per cent between July and September, the steepest decline since the earthquake-hit first quarter of 2011, as exporters suffered big falls in shipments to key markets such as China and Europe.

BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese car makers' sales in China

US and other auto manufacturers banking on increased car sales in China for 2012 have three reasons to be concerned. Blistering growth in Chinese auto sales is expected to plunge China is taking efforts to dampen foreign investment in autos Trade wars The Wall Street Journal reports