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Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
Tonkatsu is comfort food, gourmand grub — not a gourmet delicacy. So what are those hearty, unpretentious deep-fried breaded pork cutlets doing in an elegant little bar-style restaurant above one of Ginza’s temples to high-end consumption? Katsuzen has come a long way from its ...
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
It is a tricky deal being an authorized biographer. Charles Moore’s big advantage over those who have previously tackled Margaret Thatcher is that he has been provided with material denied to them. Of the arrangement that he was offered by his subject, he writes: ...
Unbelievable energy. Splendid self confidence. Never-wavering faith in his abilities or his teammates. Those are ingredients to success for Draelon Burns, the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ super substitute. Burns buried a remarkable three buzzer-beating shots to close out the three final quarters, and his team needed ...
Toyota expects to book group operating profit of ¥1.8 trillion for the current business year, up 36.3 percent from the year before, on the back of the weaker yen and brisk sales in North America and Asia.
Toyota expects to book group operating profit of ¥1.8 trillion for the current business year, up 36.3 percent from the year before, on the back of the weaker yen and brisk sales in North America and Asia.
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 ...
Toyota Motor Corp.’s new automobile sales in the United States fell for the first time in 18 months in April on weaker sales of hybrid vehicles, an industry report said Wednesday. Sales at the leading Japanese automaker came to 176,160 units, down 1.1 percent ...
Toyota Motor Corp. outsold all automakers for the fifth straight quarter as the yen’s depreciation sharpens its edge over General Motors and Volkswagen. Worldwide sales for Toyota, including those of subsidiaries Hino Motors Ltd. and Daihatsu Motor Co., reached 2.43 million vehicles in the ...
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 ...
Toyota Motor Corp. plans to build Lexus ES 350 sedans in Kentucky, the first U.S. production for its luxury brand, as CEO Akio Toyoda pushes to localize output in the automaker’s biggest markets. Toyoda and Jim Lentz, Toyota’s North American chief, said Friday in ...
For the second time in seven months, Toyota Motor Corp. and Ford Motor Co. both claim to produce the world’s top-selling car. The clash shows how counting in the global automotive industry is complicated. Ford said Tuesday that its Focus compact was the leading ...
Having drawn lessons from a series of predicaments since the 2008 global economic crisis, Toyota Motor Corp. is focusing on lowering production costs worldwide and improving its competitiveness in design as overseas competition builds. “We are finally getting out of the long tunnel after ...
Toyota Motor Corp.’s Camry in March ceded its rank as America’s best-selling midsize car for the first time in 17 months, slipping behind Nissan Motor Co.’s Altima and losing share to Honda Motor Co. and Ford Motor Co. models. Camry sales in the U.S. ...
Toyota President Akio Toyoda has said he will accelerate structural reform of the automaker to improve operations and boost profitability. “We will aim to change the structure of the company so we can achieve sustainable growth,” Toyoda said in a recent interview. As part ...