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JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Mar 14, 2016

Aichi firm touts automated driving technology

Aisin Seiki Co. is putting its automated driving technology to practical use by developing a system that can pull a vehicle safely to the side of a road if the driver becomes suddenly incapacitated.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 12, 2016

U.S. police probing November death of former Russian Press Minister Lesin

Police are investigating whether former Russian Press Minister Mikhail Lesin, who was found dead in a Washington hotel in November, was brutally assaulted before returning to the hotel, a U.S. law enforcement source said Friday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 10, 2016

China, South Korea step up sanctions on North Korea

China has barred a North Korean freighter from one of its ports and South Korea announced a crackdown on individuals and companies linked to Pyongyang's weapons program, stepping up sanctions against the isolated state.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 9, 2016

China-made truck used by North Korea in new artillery system

North Korea is using Chinese-made trucks in a new mobile artillery system showcased five days ago, according to photographs reviewed by Reuters, underlining the difficulty in enforcing U.N. sanctions against the isolated state.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 9, 2016

Japan Post scales back graduate hiring in blow to labor union

Japan Post Holdings Co. is hiring fewer graduates than it planned next fiscal year, in contrast with labor union calls for the newly listed financial and mail delivery giant to boost staffing.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Mar 7, 2016

With new toe-operated fan, students put their best feet forward

Three students at Aichi Prefectural Toyohashi Technical High School have designed a new type of standing fan that can be operated by using one's toes — and it's set to be produced and sold nationwide this spring.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 6, 2016

Amazon to restore encryption to Fire tablets after complaints

Amazon.com Inc said it plans to restore an encryption feature on its Fire tablets after customers and privacy advocates criticized the company for quietly removing the security option when it released its latest operating system.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 4, 2016

Facebook to ditch tax-reducing U.K. sales structure

Facebook said it would stop booking sales to U.K. clients via Ireland, a practice which reduced its taxes, following the British government's introduction of a new tax on profits shifted offshore.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 3, 2016

Skymark may fly international routes after restructuring, chairman says

Bankrupt carrier Skymark Airlines Inc. is weighing the possibility of starting overseas flights and is set to unveil a business plan by April as part of its turnaround, Chairman Nobuo Sayama said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 3, 2016

Toyota taps non-Japanese to help oversee structural overhaul

Toyota Motor Corp. is handing non-Japanese executives major promotions in the third overhaul of its complex business structure in six years, as President Akio Toyoda seeks ways to make the world's largest automaker more nimble.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Feb 23, 2016

Forced labor allegations and abuses continue to dog Japan's foreign trainee program

Tang Xili came to Japan in 2013, hoping to earn enough in three years to build a new home for her daughter. Instead, she ended up in a labor union shelter after leaving an employer she says owes her about ¥3.5 million in unpaid wages.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 20, 2016

Trump calls for boycott until Apple unlocks California shooter's phone

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called on Friday for a boycott of Apple products until it agrees to help the U.S. government unlock the cellphone of one of the killers in last year's shooting in San Bernardino, California.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 19, 2016

Fastest-growing Airbnb market at risk as lodging-scarce Japan cracks down

Aileen Jeffery arrived in Tokyo two years ago and spotted what she thought was the best opportunity of her career: Hotel rooms in the capital were scarce and a boom in tourism was exacerbating the shortage.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 10, 2016

Former world's richest man Tsutsumi settles suit with Seibu

Hotel and train operator Seibu Holdings Inc. settled legal claims by its units against ex-chairman Yoshiaki Tsutsumi and four former managers over damages related to the falsification of shareholder records that led to the company's delisting a decade ago.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 8, 2016

Nomura, Mizuho see Takata's distressed debt at bargain price

Takata Corp. may be embroiled in the biggest vehicle recall in U.S. history as its air bags have been linked to 11 deaths, but don't count it out as an investment, say credit analysts at Mizuho Securities Co. and Nomura Holdings Inc. who are recommending investors buy its bonds.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 8, 2016

Cyberattacks target JR Hokkaido; security info may have leaked

More than 300 files of information, including those related to transportation security, may have leaked out after a personal computer at Hokkaido Railway Co. came under cyberattacks, NHK reported on Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 7, 2016

Obama, other advocates of gun control own stock in firearms makers through mutual funds

U.S. President Barack Obama, a fierce advocate for gun regulation, is an unlikely investor in the firearms industry — yet he has money in a pension fund that holds stock in gun and ammunition companies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2016

Toyota seeks to sell Prius as stylish and sporty, starting with the Super Bowl

It is not easy being green, particularly when gas is cheap.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 4, 2016

Olympics minister denies cash-for-favors allegation involving English teacher dispatch agency

Toshiaki Endo has admitted taking cash from the founder of a Tokyo teacher dispatch agency but said he did nothing wrong.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 4, 2016

Meet the man who's making virtual reality feel more real

As a student at the University of Bristol, Tom Carter became obsessed with a seemingly impossible notion: letting people feel and manipulate virtual objects. A professor turned him on to an esoteric concept — using ultrasound to simulate tactile sensations — that was floated and abandoned back in...
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 1, 2016

Mustafa Koc, Turkey's beloved businessman

Turkish magnate Mustafa Koc was able to walk a fine line with a government that too often sees its secularist opponents as terrorists.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 1, 2016

Toyota to halt Japan output next week after steel plant explosion

Toyota Motor Corp. said Monday it will suspend production at all assembly plants in Japan next week in the wake of a steel factory explosion, dealing a blow to the supply of crucial models including the new Prius hybrid.

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