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PRODUCTION

Japan's factory output in January fell at the fastest pace since May 2020 due to a drop in automobile-related production.
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 29, 2024
Japan factory output falls at the fastest pace in nearly four years
A production downturn in motor vehicles is also adding to concerns about the fragility of an economy that slipped into recession late last year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 29, 2022
Robots are key to winning the productivity war
While machines do replace specific jobs, their adoption boosts salaries and raises living standards.
BUSINESS
Aug 1, 2018
China's steelmakers seen smashing output records despite mill closures
China's steelmakers are smashing production records by pushing furnaces beyond their typical limits, offsetting nationwide closures that may be even more swingeing than government estimates, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 30, 2018
In major milestone, Inpex begins production at offshore Australian LNG project
Tokyo-based Inpex Corp. announces that its Ichthys liquefied natural gas project has gotten underway off the northwest coast of Australia.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 4, 2018
Suzuki Motor passes 20 million automobile milestone in India
Suzuki Motor Corp. said Monday that cumulative car production reached 20 million units in India.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
May 31, 2018
Japan's industrial output edged up 0.3% in April on robust auto production
Industrial output in April grew 0.3 percent in April, up for the third consecutive month, supported by robust production of cars and auto parts, government data showed Thursday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
Feb 25, 2018
Netflix is animated about anime
Netflix's director of anime, Taito Okiura, tells me he feels like a local baseball player who got drafted into the U.S. Major Leagues. Except, he doesn't play the sport.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 10, 2018
Boeing seen topping Airbus with record 763 jets in 2017 as it keeps output flow moving
Boeing Co. said on Tuesday it delivered an industry-record 763 jetliners in 2017, likely beating European rival Airbus SE to retain the title of world's biggest plane maker.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 14, 2017
Borders in question for Chim↑Pom's new art show
Ballsy art collective Chim↑Pom have taken on Donald Trump's America in their solo exhibition "The other side." One of the most well-known contemporary iconoclasts in Japan, Chim↑Pom have previously caught rats before dyeing them yellow and red to resemble Pikachu and installing them on a Tokyo street, added depictions of the stricken Fukushima nuclear reactors to the lower-right corner of artist Taro Okamoto’s public mural in Shibuya and contributed work to an inaccessible group show within the Fukushima exclusion zone as part of their ongoing mission to be in the wrong place at the right time.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 31, 2017
Industrial output up 0.5 % in December on solid auto production
Industrial output rose 0.5 percent in December from November, lifted by robust production growth in transport equipment, government data showed Tuesday amid hopes for continued recovery.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 4, 2016
Japanese firms assess work prospects, staff safety in Bangladesh after attack
The terrorist attack in Dhaka has dampened prospects for Japanese firms that in recent years have grown more dependent on Bangladesh.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 14, 2015
Economic assessment cut in October on weak production
The government on Wednesday downgraded its basic assessment of the economy as production weakens amid a slowdown in China and other emerging markets.
EDITORIALS
Oct 11, 2015
Smog returns to Southeast Asia
Consumers can help pressure palm oil companies to stop using fire to clear land in Indonesia by supporting products certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 16, 2015
Honda's North American production reaches 30 million vehicles
Honda Motor Co. said Tuesday its North American production reached 30 million automobiles, a major milestone, since it started operations at the Marysville plant in the U.S. state of Ohio in November 1982.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 27, 2015
Mitsubishi Motors to shutter U.S. plant if no buyers found
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will stop making vehicles in the United States this year and will close down its plant in Illinois if no buyers are found.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 24, 2015
Mitsubishi Motors to end U.S. car production: sources
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. has decided to withdraw from vehicle production in the United States as part of its efforts to focus more on growing Asian markets, sources said Friday.
BUSINESS / Economy
May 29, 2015
April industrial output up 1%, signaling economy finally recovering from '14 tax hike
Industrial output rose a seasonally adjusted 1 percent in April from the previous month for the first increase in three months, the government said Friday, signaling that the world's third-largest economy may be starting to recover from last year's consumption tax hike.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 30, 2015
Industrial output takes larger drop
Japan’s industrial production fell more than forecast in February, adding to pressure from a drop in consumer spending and faltering inflation.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2015
Crude oil trades near two-month high as drilling slows in U.S., Libya pipeline fire slows flow
Oil traded at an almost two-month high in London amid speculation that a slowdown in U.S. drilling may curb production.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Nov 5, 2014
Increasing numbers of sea turtles are laying eggs on Japan's beaches
Increasing numbers of marine turtles are laying eggs on Japanese beaches, the Environment Ministry said in a new report.

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