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Japan's Core Machinery Orders Hit 10-Year High in Nov., 2017
Apr 1, 2019Mainly on strong demands from service sectors, Japan's core machinery orders have continuously surged, and hit a 10-year zenith in November, 2017, showing that the Japanese government's efforts on encouraging local enterprises to invest in ...
Tags: Core Machinery
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Toyota Redesigns Vitz Car with 1.5-Liter Engine Hybrid System
Jan 17, 2017Toyota Motor has partially redesigned the Vitz car with a 1.5-liter engine hybrid system and enahnced control of the engine, motor, inverter, and other parts. The Vitz2 is a core Toyota brand model that was initially introduced in 1999. ...
Tags: Toyota Motor, Hybrid System
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Shell and Showa Shell Sekiyu Supporting Relief Efforts in Japan
Dec 10, 2016Shell’s Country Chairman for Japan, Chris Gunner, said “Our hearts are heavy as we reflect on the thousands of lives lost and the enormous damage due to the earthquakes and the tsunami. Shell has been part of the Japanese ...
Tags: Shell, Natural Gas
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First-in-Japan Project Aims to Prevent Smartphone Related Traffic Accidents
Nov 24, 2016Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), Komeda Co., Ltd. (Komeda), and KDDI Corporation (KDDI) will begin an initiative on September 20, 2016 by utilizing a smartphone application called Driving Barista. The application is aimed at reducing the ...
Tags: Smartphone, Traffic Accidents
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Mitsubishi Motors to Take $480m Charge Over Fuel-Cheat Scandal
Jun 23, 2016Mitsubishi Motors said that it will book a $480m charge this fiscal year to compensate customers who are affected by its fuel economy manipulation scandal. Chairman Osamu Masuko said that the company will pay a compensation of ¥100000 ...
Tags: Mitsubishi Motors, eK Wagon
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Suzuki Admits Discrepancies in Fuel Efficiency Tests in Japan
May 23, 2016Suzuki has admitted identifying discrepancies in its vehicles' fuel economy and emissions tests in Japan. The company said there has been no outright manipulation of information, and the difference in results was within an acceptable ...
Tags: Suzuki, Fuel Efficiency
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Toyota Enters Public Private Partnership to Test Hydrogen Fuel Supply Chain
Mar 16, 2016Toyota has joined a Japanese government initiative to test end-to-end hydrogen fuel supply chain which aim to cut down CO2 emission significantly. This private-public partnership consists of Kanagawa Perfectural Government, municipal ...
Tags: Low-carbon, Hydrogen, Renewable energy
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China Responds to Japan-South Korea Sex Slavery Deal
Dec 29, 2015The Chinese government has welcomed the agreement reached by Japan and South Korea on Japan's wartime sexual slavery of Korean women during World War II, calling on Japan to deal with historical issues in a responsible way. Chinese ...
Tags: Sex Slavery Deal
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Foxconn Proposes to Buy Sharp: Report
Dec 29, 2015It's being reported Hon Hai Precision Industry, aka Foxconn, may be prepared to spend around 2.5 billion U.S. dollars to acquire Sharp Electronics. The proposed price is said to be about 50 percent higher than Sharp's current market ...
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Bank of Japan Unveils Fresh Measures to Increase Wages, Business Spending
Dec 22, 2015he Bank of Japan (BOJ) announced on Friday it would expand the size of its asset purchasing program while maintaining the same size of the monetary base, in a bid to drive wages higher and boost business spending, two mainstays of the ...
Tags: Bank of Japan Unveils, Increase Wages, Business Spending
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Japanese Gov't to Compile Record 798 Bln USD Budget for Fy 2016
Dec 22, 2015The Japanese government is set to announce a record-high budget of some 96.7 trillion yen (798 billion U.S. dollars) for the next fiscal year to cope with the nation's dire demographic circumstances and related welfare costs, government ...
Tags: Japanese Gov, Budget
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Japan to Phase-out Incandescent and Fluorescent Lights by 2020
Nov 27, 2015The Japanese government intends to phase out the country’s incandescent light bulbs and fluorescent tubes by 2020, and convert all lights to LEDs, reported Asahi Shinbun. The policy was formulated ahead of the 21st Conference of the ...
Tags: LED lamps, light bulbs, fluorescent tubes
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Asia-Pacific to Dominate 2014 photovoltaic modules Demand, Says Solarbuzz
Nov 5, 2015Demand for photovoltaic modules and systems in 2014 will be dominated by the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, which will account for around half of all new solar shipments as the industry continues its rapid transition away from Europe. ...
Tags: PV Demand, solar shipments
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Chinese Shopping Spree Seen in Japan
Nov 3, 2015A "tax free" sign written in English, Chinese and Korean is displayed at a shop popular with tourists from Chinese-speaking countries in the upscale Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, February 19, 2015. [Photo: CFP] Chinese shoppers are ...
Tags: Chinese Shopping, "tax free", Japan
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Sino-Japan Tensions Rise Over China's Nanjing Massacre Memory Application
Oct 28, 2015Tensions between the two Asian giants, China and Japan, are running high after the Japanese government tried to block China's application to UNESCO to list documents relating to the 1937 Nanjing Massacre and "comfort women", or the 200, 000 ...