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The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
“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, ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
A weaker yen, credited to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policies, may be helping exporters in general but struggling electronics makers are not yet out of the woods.
Panasonic logs an eye-watering ¥754.2 billion net loss for fiscal 2012 that is only marginally better than its abysmal financial results the year before.
Panasonic Corp. will halve its president’s and incoming chairman’s remuneration from July compared with a year earlier to make clear their responsibility for the struggling firms’ deteriorating earnings, company officials said Wednesday. The electronics maker has already implemented 10 to 20 percent cuts in ...
"Beauty" may not be the first thing that pops into people's heads when they think about electronics, but struggling Japanese home electronics manufacturers see a great deal of promise in a range of beauty gadgets targeting women, from high-tech hair dryers to steam skin ...
Embattled electronics giant Panasonic Corp. vowed Thursday to slash its losses in five business sectors, including televisions and semiconductors, by ¥130 billion over the next three years. The Osaka-based maker also aims to boost its operating profit to more than ¥350 billion for the ...
Panasonic Corp. said its solar-panel operation will probably remain profitable amid growing demand from domestic homeowners. Shipments in February reached a record level as the nation’s feed-in-tariff system for electricity triggered demand for rooftop systems, Kazuhiro Yoshida, who heads the business, said in Tokyo ...
Panasonic is likely to exit the plasma display TV business soon after losing the battle for market share to liquid crystal displays.
Panasonic Corp. is in talks to sell its health care business for up to ¥100 billion to raise badly needed funds for its eroded financial base, industry sources said. The struggling electronics maker has been negotiating the sale of the business, including its electronic ...
The economist picked by struggling Panasonic Corp. to become its first female director said Japan’s electronics makers need drastic changes to align their business models with those of companies including General Electric Co. and Siemens AG. Manufacturers should focus more on growing demand for ...
Renesas Electronics Corp. is considering selling a subsidiary to a new company that Fujitsu Ltd. and Panasonic Corp. will set up by integrating their loss-making system LSI chip operations, sources said Tuesday. Fujitsu and Panasonic announced the system LSI merger plan in February, but ...
Panasonic Corp. is developing a tablet computer for business customers that runs on Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 8 operating system under their new business partnership, sources said Friday. The tablet, which will have a 20-inch liquid crystal display panel, will be the world’s first of ...
Panasonic Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd. are considering setting up a new company possibly in the business year from April to merge their system LSI chip operations, sources said Friday. The move is aimed at rebuilding their respective loss-making businesses by integrating design and development ...