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A sit-in by visa violators and their families entered its second day Tuesday in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau with protesters seeking government good will. The action at the bureau in Minato Ward is being organized by the Asian People’s Friendship Society, ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Takashi Miike's blood-soaked vengeance tale, one of two Japanese films being shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, draws the biggest boos so far, with critics savaging it as overacted and cliched.
Have you ever given your best effort while striving to achieve something but felt like what you were doing was futile? That’s the feeling I’m getting about Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics. With just over three months to go until the IOC ...
Nissan Motor Co. and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. on Monday started manufacturing a jointly developed minivehicle to be launched on June 6 across Japan. The two automakers together command about 10 percent of the minivehicle market. By cooperating, they think they can increase that to ...
Nissan Motor Co. on Friday reported the slowest annual profit growth among Japanese automakers as its success in China backfired. Nissan’s net income in the 12 months that ended in March increased 0.3 percent to ¥342.4 billion, the Yokohama-based company said. Next fiscal year’s ...
Nissan Motor Co. said its new vehicle sales in China in April rose 2.7 percent from a year before to 102,800 units. It was Nissan’s first sales increase since the Senkaku territorial dispute grew heated last September, except for January when its new car ...
Despite the bilateral dispute over the Senkaku Islands, young Chinese consumers appear more concerned with product quality and safety rather than Beijing’s relations with the countries making the products. When asked about the boycott on Japanese products in China after Japan nationalized the China-claimed ...
Toyota Motor Corp. said it doesn’t expect sales in China to fully recover before autumn this year as antipathy lingers toward Japanese brands. “Our original expectation was for sales to come back in half a year, but now our plan is to push harder ...
Nissan Motor Co.’s Infiniti, seeking a bigger share of global luxury vehicle sales, is considering adding a second production site in North America to produce models for the brand locally. Infiniti moved its global headquarters to Hong Kong last year and is preparing to ...
Nissan Motor Co., the most successful Japanese automaker in China, expects sales in the world’s largest automobile market to rebound within three months as demand for Japanese-branded vehicles recovers. “We’ve seen growth in retail year on year in March and year to date,” Andy ...
Japanese carmakers are showcasing their sport utility vehicles and luxury cars at the annual New York International Auto Show, which opened Wednesday. Toyota Motor Corp. debuted the 2014 Highlander SUV with a redesigned exterior, bigger interior and three engine choices, including a hybrid option. ...
After protests erupted across China last year over the Senkaku Islands, sales of Japanese-branded cars there plummeted. Nissan Motor Co.’s prescription for winning back Chinese drivers: a quieter ride and better gas mileage. Nissan introduced its new Teana sedan Tuesday in the southern city ...
Suzuki Motor Corp. said Tuesday it wants to secure a 30 percent share of the domestic minicar market in fiscal 2013 in the face of fierce competition from its rivals. Suzuki’s share for minivehicles, with engines of 660cc or less, dropped below 30 percent ...
Among the 780,000 people employed in Japan’s auto industry, only three are women responsible for the rollout of new models. They all work at Nissan Motor Co. Mie Minakuchi is behind the newest Note hatchback, Nissan’s top domestic seller, which has seen sales triple ...
Nissan Motor Co. will more than quadruple the number of high-speed battery charging stations for electric vehicles in the United States in the next 1½ years. The automaker said Thursday it plans to set up more than 500 new charging stations in the U.S., ...