America's top automakers will skip the Tokyo Motor Show again, raising doubts about their interest in the tough Japanese market, which U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to open wider. The list of participants at the biennial event this year, released Monday by the Japan ...
A U.S. government advisory panel has reversed its opposition to a controversial prostate cancer screening test for men aged 55 to 69, according to draft recommendations published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Patients are now advised to discuss the potential benefits ...
Being overweight or obese in the first trimester of pregnancy has been linked to a higher risk of bearing a child with epilepsy, researchers said Monday. The study was based on data from 1.4 million children in Sweden, and was published in the Journal of ...
New vehicle sales in fiscal 2016 are expected to rise 6.5 percent more than estimated for the current year to 5.26 million units for the first rebound in three years, an industry body said Thursday. The rebound, however, is being projected on a surge in ...
Car owners in Japan have been shouldering unfair levies and a new tax to replace the current car acquisition tax next year will not ease the burden, said Fumihiko Ike, chairman of the nation's biggest automakers' lobby group. Under the government's plan, the acquisition tax ...
Vehicle production dropped 0.5 percent in October to 813,110 units from a year ago, as demand for minivehicles remained sluggish amid the lingering effects of tax hikes, data by an industry body showed Monday. Although auto output has logged 16 consecutive months of decline, exports ...
Vehicle production in Japan fell 5.3 percent in February from a year earlier to 817,390 units, down for the eighth straight month, as demand shrank following a consumption tax hike last year, an industry body said Tuesday. The Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said the output ...
Vehicle production in Japan fell to 743,289 units in November, down 12.2 percent from the previous year amid declining demand, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said Friday. The fifth straight month of decline reflected continued weak consumer spending after the April consumption tax hike. Car production ...
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. "2014 has been ...
A backlog of orders as well as concerted marketing efforts by carmakers have minimized the impact from April's consumption tax hike on sales between April and June — but there are still concerns about sales volume after July, the chairman of the nation's automaker ...
Honda Motor Co. Chairman Fumihiko Ike will take over as chief of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association in May, the industry lobby group said Thursday. He will succeed Akio Toyoda, the president of Toyota Motor Corp. "Mr. Ike is like no one else, and he always ...
Domestic vehicle output rose for a third consecutive month in November, logging a 10.2 percent rise to 846,151 units from the previous year, an industry body said Friday. Car production climbed 10.3 percent to 719,133 units and truck output 11.4 percent to 116,365 units. Bus ...
