Hitachi Construction Machinery jumped 4.1% after the Nikkeibusiness daily reported the company's consolidated operating profit for the fiscal year is expected to be up 40%.
With the weaker yen, some question whether Nissan will follow through with its plan to shift SUV production to the U.S. On April 12, the Nikkeibusiness daily reported that the auto maker may delay the production shift.
Japan's major newspapers, including the Yomiuri Nihon Keizai Shimbun (the so-called Nikkei, the largest business paper) and the Kyodo press wire were all allocated choice downtown real estate for their headquarters by the Japanese government in the 1960s at bargain prices.
The Nikkei article quotes Mitsubishi Research Institute referencing a ranking of international competitiveness of university programs by the Swiss IMD Business School.