Toyota Motor Corp. is mulling issuing up to ¥100 billion ($900 million) in bonds with maturities of up to 20 years to invest in developing next-generation car technologies, sources close to the matter said Thursday. Toyota plans to spend around ¥1.05 trillion on research and ...
Renesas Electronics Corp. is doing something that only a decade ago would have been unthinkable for a Japanese semiconductor maker: outsourcing research overseas. Outsourcing more R&D reduces the cost of developing components for new applications in autonomous cars and "the internet of things," Chief Executive ...
The researcher hired by Toyota Motor Corp. to spearhead its robotics and artificial intelligence efforts says the automaker's production principles can be applied to build affordable helper robots for rapidly aging societies. Robot makers are struggling with the same scale challenges that the auto industry ...
A Great Wall Motor Co. research and development base in Yokohama has started operations as the Chinese automaker aims to strengthen cooperation with Japanese auto parts makers. The launch Tuesday reflects Great Wall's efforts to deliver high-quality products by gaining technological knowledge from Japanese companies ...
Hitachi Ltd. and Kyoto University's iPS cell research institute will launch a project to compare induced pluripotent stem cells generated from patients with diseases and from healthy volunteers to help develop new drugs and learn more about disease mechanisms. The project, expected to start later ...
Japan's ability to create new industries will suffer if steps are not taken to bolster the nation's scientific research capabilities.
A joint research initiative for developing car engines will be led by the Research Association of Automobile Internal Combustion Engines (AICE), it was announced Monday. The aim of consolidating the industry's research into nonpolluting, fuel-efficient engines is to reduce development costs at each of the ...
NTT DoCoMo Inc., despite being Japan's biggest mobile phone carrier, has been struggling against tough smartphone competition from KDDI Corp. and Softbank Corp., which is leading in that area. But one edge that the cellphone behemoth — it has more than 60 million subscribers — ...
