Inside the maze of fishmongers and sushi shops of Tokyo's Tsukiji district, buyers and tourists are assailed by more than just the smell of fresh seafood. There's also the incessant buzzing. Starting before dawn, the world's biggest fish market resounds with the noise of scooters ...

The expected bankruptcy of troubled air bag maker Takata Corp. isn’t just a crisis for its employees and suppliers — it also throws a wild card into one of the most complicated recalls in automotive history.

Yusuke Goto would have crashed his Toyota Crown five years ago if the premium sedan hadn't detected the 45-year-old was veering off and righted the steering wheel. So when he found similar features in the cheaper Nissan Serena minivan, it was an easy choice. "Earlier ...

Embarrassed by the recall of thousands of kitchenware pots after they appeared to leach lead when heated, discount-furniture king Akio Nitori took an unusual step. He hired a team of auto industry engineers to revamp the quality assurance and testing division. Ten years later, every ...

Nitori Holdings Co. is considering buying an apparel chain in Japan, a move that will pit the furniture seller against rivals including Fast Retailing Co., Asia's largest clothier. The home furnishing retailer will look for a company with 100 to 200 stores as cash from ...

In a small coastal town on the Sea of Japan, Uber Technologies Inc. is deploying an unusual strategy. The average age of an Uber passenger in Kyoto's Tangocho district, population 5,914, is at least 70. Even stranger: Most of these elderly customers don't own a ...

Takata Corp. and some of the world's biggest carmakers face an extensive, expensive to-do list as they try to resolve the worst safety crisis in the auto industry's history. Executives for the Tokyo-based maker of air bags are scheduled to meet in Japan with Honda ...

Shuttered factories dot the streets of Osaka, a city that once reverberated with the sound of trucks delivering all manner of parts to Japan's industrial giants. Signs advertising available space underscore how competition from places like China and South Korea has eaten away at the ...

Mitsubishi Motors Corp., embroiled in a car-rigging scandal in Japan, may find that its future increasingly hinges on its performance in Thailand — the automaker's biggest overseas production base. Paced by Thailand-built Triton pickups and Pajero SUVs, Mitsubishi Motors sold more than twice as many ...

Mitsubishi Motors opts not to release a projection of its fiscal 2016 earnings amid a scandal involving falsified fuel efficiency figures.