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Hitachi picks U.S. engineering firm Bechtel to manage U.K. nuclear plant project
Hitachi Ltd. has appointed major U.S. engineering giant Bechtel Corp. as the project management contractor for a nuclear power plant it plans to build in Britain. The contract was concluded between Horizon Nuclear Power Ltd., a wholly owned Hitachi subsidiary, and Bechtel, Hitachi said Wednesday. Horizon ...
Hitachi to launch AI analysis of hospital leftovers to hasten inpatient recovery
A unit of Hitachi Ltd. will launch a new venture that uses artificial intelligence to analyze the leftovers of carefully planned hospital meals to ensure patients get the nutrients needed to better facilitate recovery, company officials said Monday. While AI is already being used to ...
Japan and Hitachi pin nuclear export hopes on U.K. project in Wales
A nuclear power plant project in Britain is giving Japan a glimmer of hope for spurring infrastructure exports, a key growth strategy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Hitachi affiliate discovers data fraud involving 60,000 batteries
An affiliate of Japanese electronics giant Hitachi Ltd. admitted Friday it had falsified data for 60,000 industrial batteries, the latest in a series of similar scandals that has battered the country's reputation for quality. Hitachi Chemical Co. said it had falsified data for the batteries, ...
British government, Hitachi to begin full negotiations on nuclear plant in Wales
The British government and Hitachi Ltd. have agreed to begin full-scale negotiations on the Japanese firm potentially constructing a nuclear power plant in Wales. "I am pleased to confirm that today Hitachi and the U.K. government have decided to enter into negotiations in relation to ...
U.K. offers Hitachi ¥2 trillion loan to prop up costly nuclear power project in Wales
The firm has signaled that it may withdraw from the project should talks over the government funding proposal prove difficult.
Japanese firms pitch next-generation 'smart city' technologies in New York
As technology to create energy-efficient "smart cities" proliferates, four Japanese companies have shown off their prowess in advanced environmental and information technologies as part of a related exhibition in New York. Daikin Industries Ltd., Hitachi Ltd., Panasonic Corp. and Shimizu Corp. participated last week in ...
Hitachi Ltd. and a Belgium company have signed a contract with Taiwan's state-owned power utility to build offshore wind turbines on the island's west coast as part of the government's ambitious plan to replace nuclear power with renewable energy. While the Jan De Nul Group ...
Japan's Hitachi to trial 'world's first urine test' to spot cancer
Hitachi is poised to carry out what it hailed as the world's first experiment to test for cancer using urine samples, which would greatly facilitate screening for the deadly disease. The engineering and IT conglomerate developed the basic technology to detect breast or colon cancer ...
Hitachi Chairman Hiroaki Nakanishi to head Keidanren business lobby
Keidanren has tapped Hitachi Ltd. Chairman Hiroaki Nakanishi as its next chief, the nation's top business lobby said Tuesday. The appointment was approved earlier in the day at a meeting of the body's board of councilors. Nakanishi, 71, will be formally appointed at Keidanren's general ...
Can performing Beethoven symphonies together help employees team up on projects at work, too? Some companies — above all in Germany and Asia — seem to think so. A conspicuous number of big German corporate names — along with a handful in Japan and South ...
Hitachi Chairman Nakanishi eyed for next chief of Keidanren, Japan's largest business lobby
The Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, is expected to select Hitachi Ltd. Chairman Hiroaki Nakanishi, 71, as the next leader of the nation's biggest business lobby, to succeed current Chairman Sadayuki Sakakibara, sources have said. The organization plans to tentatively appoint its next chairman soon, ...
