The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Toyota logs record April-Dec net profit, backed by weaker yenTOKYO - Toyota Motor Corp. on Wednesday reported a record net profit of 2.32 trillion yen ($20.10 billion) for the April-December period, up 57.8 percent from a year earlier, supported by a weaker yen as the automaker makes a gradual sales recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.Toyota's operating profit soared 67.9 percent to 2.53 trillion yen in the first nine months, also an all-time high, despite an ongoing global semiconductor shortage and high…READ FULL ARTICLE