Tōkyō :: Japan
| about 9 hours ago
| Business News
The world's largest car manufacturer, Toyota, has said it will stop production at all of its Japanese plants for a total of 11 days in February and March. The almost unprecedented stoppage follows a previously announced three-day halt in January, a...
Toyota :: Japan
| about 10 hours ago
| Business News
A sweeping suspension of domestic production is almost unprecedented. In 1993, Toyota halted output for one day as a strong yen hammered sales. Japanese-built cars make up around 40 per cent of Toyota's sales in the United States, where foreign-made...
Tōkyō :: Japan
| about 13 hours ago
| Technology News
Parliamentary Secretary for Internal Affairs and Communications Tetsushi Sakamoto on Tuesday retracted his controversial remarks that questioned whether unemployed people who took shelter in a Tokyo park over the New Year period really possess the will to work. Referring to...
Tōkyō :: Japan
| about 18 hours ago
| Technology News
Japanese whalers are trying to disrupt anti-whaling efforts by getting other nations to refuse activists entry to their ports to refuel their ship. The Japan Whaling Association has called on the Australian and New Zealand governments to close their ports...
Tōkyō :: Japan
| about 16 hours ago
| Business News
Japan plans to seek to expand the environment business market to 100 trillion yen by 2015, about 1.4 times the 2006 level, to increase jobs in the area by 800,000 to 2.2 million, government sources said Monday. Prime Minister Taro...
Aso :: Japan
| about 12 hours ago
| Business News
The bold demands from Yoshimi Watanabe, former state minister for administrative reform, reflect increasingly open dissatisfaction within the ruling LDP with the prime minister, who has already seen his support ratings plunge to levels that proved politically fatal to previous...
Tōkyō :: Japan
| about 16 hours ago
| Political News
Some 500 jobless people, many of them laid-off temp workers, who spent the New Year's period encamped in Hibiya Park were relocated Monday to four other sites arranged by the welfare ministry after volunteers closed the temporary shelter in the...
Tōkyō :: Japan
| about 7 hours ago
| Political News
Opposition lawmaker Yukio Hatoyama, meanwhile, demanded that Aso resign and call for snap elections, which must by law take place by September this year. Hatoyama, a leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, demanded Aso scrap a plan to give...
Ōsaka :: Japan
| about 9 hours ago
| Conflict & Tragedy
Two taxi drivers were assaulted early Tuesday in Osaka Prefecture but the cases are not believed to be related to two recent fatal taxi holdups in the prefecture, police said. Police arrested a 23-year-old temp worker, Masahito Sawamura, for slightly...
Tōkyō :: Japan
| about 14 hours ago
| Political News
If the Conservatives want to regain their reputation for economic competence, they will have to do better than this. David Cameron's claim that the "innocent victims" of "Gordon Brown's recession" include the nation's savers has some truth in it, but...