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Japan Considers Tariff Cuts on US Beef Imports
Feb 3, 2015Japan is contemplating plans to cut tariff on certain amount of beef and pork imports from the US over a period of 10 years, as part of Asia-Pacific free trade deal talks with the US. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a free trade ...
Tags: Beef, Pork Tariff
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Sony Is Reportedly in Talks to Sell off Its Vaio Personal Computer Division
Feb 18, 2014Related sony Sony’s Credit Cut To Junk By Moody’s sony Sony Pictures Closes Tech Unit, Cookson Departs sony Sony Readies Media-Oriented Smartphones sony Sony's Hirai Talks Wow Factor Tokyo — Sony Corp. is reportedly in ...
Tags: Sony, Vaio Business, Nikkei Business
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Sony Corp. Has Reversed a Decision to Sell off Its Lithium-Ion Battery Unit
Dec 31, 2013Related sony Panasonic, Sony End OLED Panel Venture sony Sony To Sell Off Gracenote sony Molyneux, Fasulo, Okuda Get Sony Promotions sony TWICE Newsmaker Of The Year Tokyo – Sony Corp. has reversed a decision to sell off its ...
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MMC Is to Increase The Production Capacity and Construct a New Manufacturing Facility
Jun 17, 2013Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors (MMC) is planning to increase the production capacity and construct a new manufacturing facility in Indonesia. Both the moves are expected to support the company to address the increasing demands for ...
Tags: Mitsubishi, production capacity
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Capacity Will Be Extended by Subaru at Indiana Plant
May 9, 2013Subaru, the automobile manufacturing division of Fuji Heavy Industries (FHI), is planning to expand the capacity at its Lafayette plant in central Indiana, US, by about 30% to accommodate the production of the Impreza compact car by 2016. ...
Tags: Subaru, automobile
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Now Comes The Hard Part, Selling Electronics
Apr 1, 2013In his first year as Sony CEO, Kazuo Hirai has remade the company, cutting thousands of jobs, selling off large businesses and core properties, and moving divisions around the world. Now comes the hard part, selling electronics. Hirai ...
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Renault-Nissan Alliance Is Planning to Set up a Low-Cost Vehicle Manufacturing Plant
Feb 22, 2013Renault-Nissan alliance is planning to invest about $320m (JPY30bn) to set up a low-cost vehicle manufacturing plant in India The alliance is expected to invest the amount to construct a second manufacturing plant at the company's site ...
Tags: Renault-Nissan, low-cost vehicle, alliance
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BlackBerry Says It Has No Immediate Plans to Sell Its New Handsets in Japan
Feb 18, 2013Smartphone maker BlackBerry says it has no immediate plans to sell its new handsets in Japan, but the company denied it was abandoning one of the world's most tech-savvy nations. Having fallen far behind Apple and lost ground to other ...
Tags: BlackBerry, Japan Market, smartphone
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Japan's Government Is Likely to Provide Insurance for Tankers
Nov 30, 2012Japan's government is likely to provide insurance for tankers that import Iranian oil to Japan in the wake of the European Union sanctions on Iran in July 2012. The Nikkei business daily was cited by Reuters as reporting that it is ...
Tags: Japan, liability exposure, oil imports, Iran
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Dole Food's Acquisition Plan by Japanese Company Itochu
Nov 26, 2012Japanese trading company Itochu is in talks to acquire Dole Food’s global canned-fruit and juice-beverage processing operations, as well as its packaged foods and Asian fruit and vegetable businesses. Dole Food, a distributor of ...
Tags: Dole Food, canned-fruit, juice-beverage, talks
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Panasonic Corp Will Invest 50 Billion Yen to Build a Solar Panel Plant in Malaysia
Nov 17, 2011Panasonic Corp will invest 50 billion yen ($645 million) to build a solar panel plant in Malaysia, to bolster output by a third to 900,000 kilowatts, the Nikkei business daily reported. The plant, which will open in 2012, will be its first ...
Tags: Market View, solar
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Panasonic Corp Will Invest 50 Billion Yen
Nov 17, 2011Panasonic Corp will invest 50 billion yen ($645 million) to build a solar panel plant in Malaysia, to bolster output by a third to 900,000 kilowatts, the Nikkei business daily reported. The plant, which will open in 2012, will be its ...
Tags: solar