For Yuri Kageyama's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
The criminal trial against Japanese automaker Nissan and its former executive Greg Kelly will open in Tokyo District Court on Tuesday. It’s the latest chapter in the unfolding scandal of Carlos Ghosn, a superstar at Nissan Motor Co. until he and Kelly were arrested ...
Even if acquitted, he has already paid a heavy price, unable to leave Japan and go home to Tennessee while out on bail.
Former Mitsubishi Motors Chief Executive Osamu Masuko, who engineered the automaker’s alliance with Nissan, has died. He was 71. Masuko was named a special adviser to the company when he resigned for health reasons as of Aug. 7. Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said he died of ...
Behind the escalating nuclear crisis sits a scandal-ridden energy industry in a cozy relationship with government regulators, who are often willing to overlook safety lapses. Leaks of radioactive steam and workers contaminated with radiation are just part of the disturbing catalog of accidents that have ...
Toyota's U.S. business has been a lifetime passion for Toshiaki Taguchi from humble beginnings 50 years ago, when barely 100 Toyota cars were being sold a month, to the world's No. 1 automaker today. At the automaker's Tokyo office last year, Taguchi, 69, the former ...
The nation's top telecom carrier is developing a simple wristwatchlike device to monitor the well-being of the elderly. The wearable sensor from NTT Corp., shown this week, is part of a growing effort to improve care of the old in a nation whose population is ...
YOKOSUKA, Kanagawa Pref. — The Leaf electric car is rolling down the bustling assembly line at Nissan's Oppama plant, taking the place of a gasoline-powered compact whose production was moved abroad last year. The Oppama plant in Yokosuka is a showcase for Nissan Motor Co.'s ...
Toy maker Tomy Co. is hoping to score a comeback in the U.S. this Christmas with toy trains and cars that boast a 40-year history in Japan but failed previously to catch on abroad. Tomy, Japan's No. 2 toy company, which also makes Transformer robots, ...
The iPhone's popularity in Japan is cracking open an industry long thought inaccessible to outsiders. For years, the typical Japanese cell phone — built to operate on a network hardly used anywhere else in the world — has been stuffed with quirky games and other ...
A town whose annual dolphin hunt was bloodily depicted in the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove" is hosting the first-ever meeting between antihunting activists and its fishermen to try to find common ground between the two sides. The film portrayed the fishermen from Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, ...
