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Greek Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni spoke about Greece's investment opportunities and competitive advantages to representatives of KEIDANREN, Japan's Business Federation, and of Japanese airlines in Tokyo.

Japanese electronics giant Sony yesterday upgraded its annual sales and net profit forecasts, driven by strength in its music business and favorable foreign exchange rates.

The conglomerate said its annual net profit for the year to March 2024 should reach 860 billion yen ($6.0 billion), up from a previous estimate of 840 billion yen.

Mitsui and Mitsubishi are shareholders in the Sakhalin-2 liquefied natural gas (LPG) project.
Shares of Mitsui fell by 5.7 percent and of Mitsubishi by 5.4 percent respectively, by the midday break in today's trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, reports Reuters.

Japan's Toshiba yesterday announced plans to split into two companies, revising a controversial proposal to divide into three following a tumultuous period for the storied industrial conglomerate.

Employers' organizations have demanded the resignation of the management of the National Electricity Company (NEC) because of the recent surge in electricity prices for businesses, reports BNT. 

U.S. tech titans Apple and Dell have joined a bid to buy Toshiba's memory chip business, a deal seen as key to the survival of the cash-stripped Japanese industrial conglomerate, the US investor leading the consortium has said.

At a train station used by hundreds of workers at struggling Japanese electronics giant Toshiba, an advert is apparently trying to poach staff worried by their employer's precarious financial position.

The Prosecutor's Office is checking contracts that have been concluded by the National Electricity Company (NEC) with consultancy and legal service firms.

This was announced for FOCUS News Agency by Spokesperson for Prosecutor-General Rumyana Arnaudova.

Toshiba, which sold the first Japan-made color television in 1960, now appears to want to sell its TV business.

Some foreign buyers are said to be showing interest in taking over the unit, according to people familiar with the matter.

Potential bidders include Turkish home-appliance maker Vestel and a few Chinese rivals.

Toshiba's loss-hit U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse Electric Company has filed for bankruptcy protection, the companies said on March 29, as the troubled division wrestles with huge losses and accounting fraud claims.