TOKYO, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Capital spending by Japanese companies in the October-December quarter rose 6.5 percent from a year earlier, marking a fourth consecutive quarterly increase, government data showed Tuesday.
Investment by all nonfinancial sectors totaled 15.39 trillion yen (about 97.9 billion U.S. dollars), with the information and communications sector contributing to the growth amid the need to build data centers, the Ministry of Finance data showed.
In the fourth quarter of 2025, pretax profits increased 4.7 percent to 30.03 trillion yen, up for the fifth consecutive quarter, while sales edged up 0.7 percent to 400.65 trillion yen, gaining for the 19th straight quarter, it said.
The latest figures will be used to revise Japan's gross domestic product data for the October-December period, which showed the economy grew an annualized real 0.2 percent, marking the first expansion in two quarters. Enditem
京公网安备 11010802027341号