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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 22, 2014
Sales tax hike stymies domestic car sales: JAMA
Major Japanese carmakers may have benefited from the yen's sharp decline this year, but they were also hurt by the consumption tax hike and prospects for the domestic market appear dim, Fumihiko Ike, chief of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, said Monday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 10, 2014
Honda halts U.S. sales of Acura sedan because of brake fault
Honda Motor Co. told U.S. dealers to stop selling some of its Acura TLX sedans because the parking lock may fail to engage, the latest quality shortcoming at the automaker after President Takanobu Ito took a pay cut.
BUSINESS
Nov 25, 2014
Honda faces record $35 million U.S. fine for 1,700 unreported claims
The company blames the underreporting on 'inadvertent data entry or computer programming errors' that spanned 11 years, according to an internal review submitted to U.S. authorities.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 18, 2014
Lawsuit links Takata air bag death to delay in Honda alert
Honda Motor Co.'s U.S. unit advised dealers not to contact customers about a potentially fatal defect because of a parts shortage, one week before shrapnel from an exploding air bag left a woman looking as if she had been killed with a knife, lawyers for her family said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 13, 2014
Honda discloses fifth Takata air bag-linked fatality, widens recall
Honda Motor Co said Thursday that a driver in Malaysia died after a July accident involving an air bag supplied by Takata Corp — the fifth such fatality and the first outside the United States.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 7, 2014
Facing U.S. safety probe, Honda expands air bag recall
Honda Motor Co., facing a U.S. safety probe, strengthened its recall of U.S. cars to replace potentially defective Takata Corp. air bags linked to several deaths.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 4, 2014
U.S. examines whether Honda failed to report fatal air bag incidents
The U.S. has begun a formal investigation of whether Honda Motor Co. failed to tell regulators about deaths and injuries relating to Takata Corp. air bags that can shoot shrapnel at car passengers.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 28, 2014
2328 umbrellas + one drone + OK Go = made-in-Japan brilliance
“When you're employing hundreds of umbrellas that all have to go up at the same time — there's going to be problems,” says Damian Kulash, the lead singer of OK Go.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 28, 2014
OK Go shares a love of Japan with fans
'Sharing' used to be a dirty word in the music industry, but OK Go have been instrumental in changing that.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 28, 2014
Honda lowers 2014 forecast, predicting 1.6 percent less income than in previous fiscal year
Honda Motor Co. on Tuesday forecast its first profit decline in three years as deliveries to China and Japan weakened.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 25, 2014
Air bag crisis may shift auto market to Daicel, Autoliv
The defect in Takata Corp. air bags linked to four deaths in Honda Motor Co. cars opens the supplier to the risk of losing business in a crucial portion of the market for the safety devices.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2014
Takata air bag defects far more severe than revealed
Manufacturing problems with Takata Corp. air bags go beyond what the Tokyo-based company has disclosed to U.S. safety regulators about why the devices are at risk of exploding with dangerous force, according to internal company documents reviewed by Reuters.

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