Company in Focus

TOKYO (Nikkei) -- McDonald's Holdings Co. (Japan) (2702) saw its same-store sales edge up 0.5% in May, the first year-on-year rise in 14 months.

TOKYO (Nikkei)--Growth prospects based on Asian expansion are driving expectations for the July 3 debut of Suntory Holdings Ltd.'s soft-drink unit on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

TOKYO (Nikkei)--Major online brokerage house Rakuten Securities Inc. is seeing rapid earnings improvements thanks to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policy mix.

TOKYO (Nikkei)--The big Japanese automakers are on a roll again, with their combined profit for the current fiscal year expected to near the all-time high reached before the global financial crisis struck in 2008.