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The consumption tax increase next April will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people's financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the impact of the hike, experts say.
Every parent is all too familiar with The Tantrum. The screaming, the flailing arms, the angry head butting — and the timing (normally in the most inconvenient public place possible).
International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.
Tucked away behind the main museums in Ueno, the Tokyo University Art Museum may not be on most people’s radar, but it is definitely one of the city’s top museums in terms of curatorial quality. Whenever I go there, I am always delighted by ...
Francisco Liriano showed up at PNC Park on Tuesday afternoon in a suit with his suitcase packed for a trip St. Louis. The message reverberated through the Pittsburgh Pirates clubhouse. After 21 years away from the playoffs, it was time for the best story ...
Automakers rolled out their advanced driving technologies and IT-equipped vehicles for the opening of Japan’s major high-tech fair Tuesday. More carmakers are joining electronics companies at the CEATEC Japan exhibition this year as vehicles increasingly employ advanced information technology. Honda Motor Co. and Mazda ...
Nissan Motor Co., the most prolific maker of electric cars, plans to offer free rapid charges for its battery-powered Leaf hatchback for new customers in Texas, experimenting with a strategy pioneered by Tesla Motors Inc. Starting Oct. 1, people who buy or lease a ...
The nation’s top three automakers cut domestic output in August by double digits after the “green car” subsidy program ended, data released Wednesday show. Toyota Motor Corp.’s output sank 10.9 percent on year to 233,514 vehicles, Nissan Motor Corp.’s output fell 11.7 percent to ...
Nissan Motor Co. said Friday it will build a car assembly plant in Myanmar to begin manufacturing the Nissan Sunny compact sedan in 2015. The company said the Myanmar Investment Commission approved its application for the joint venture plant with Malaysia’s Tan Chong Motors ...
Nissan Motor Co., the nation’s second-biggest automaker, expects car sales in some emerging markets to rebound next year. The fall in car deliveries in Brazil, Russia and India is a short-term adjustment and sales in these markets will rise in 2014, Nissan Chief Executive ...
Nissan Motor Co., seeking a boost for its second-best-selling U.S. model, has revamped the Rogue small sport utility vehicle to get a bigger share of the growing crossover segment from Honda Motor Co. and Ford Motor Co. The 2014 Rogue, longer and wider than ...
General Motors Co. and Nissan Motor Co., the biggest sellers of rechargeable cars, posted record U.S. plug-in sales in August as their low-cost leases pushed battery-vehicle deliveries this year past last year’s tally. GM delivered 3,351 Chevrolet Volt plug-in sedans last month, up 18 ...
Japanese automakers posted more than 20 percent sales gains in August in the United States, helping expand the overall market by 17 percent from a year earlier to 1.5 million vehicles, the highest for a single month since May 2007, Autodata Corp. said. Buyers ...
Motorists could go hands-free, leaving their cars' computer brains fully in charge, as early as 2020, when Nissan says it plans to have a self-driving vehicle ready for the market.
Japanese auto brands posted a significant decline in customer satisfaction in China among foreign automakers, after the Senkaku Islands dispute sparked nationwide protests last year. Japanese brands trailed their South Korean, American and European competitors, beating only Chinese nameplates in an annual industry survey ...
Domestic automakers led by Nissan Motor Co., producer of the zero-emission Leaf car, said they’ll team up to build up the number of the charging stations across the country to speed up adoption of electric cars. Nissan, Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co. and ...
Nissan said Thursday its April-June net profit jumped 14 percent to $821 million, as it pointed to improved market share in Japan and North America. Japan’s number-two automaker earned ¥82 billion on sales of ¥2.51 trillion in the second quarter, while leaving unchanged its ...