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RECALL

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 12, 2015
Toyota recalls RAV4 EVs to repair Tesla system posing crash risk
Toyota Motor Corp., which built about 2,500 electric vehicles over three years with Tesla Motors Inc., said it's recalling the RAV4 EVs to repair components supplied by Tesla.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Mar 9, 2015
Takata's air bag response puts firm in NHTSA's cross hairs
With no breakthrough in sight regarding Takata Corp.'s faulty air bags and its handling of extensive recalls, U.S. transportation authorities are ratcheting up pressure on the embattled Japanese auto-parts supplier.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 26, 2014
Honda delays Legend sedan to guard against another quality lapse
Honda Motor Co., the automaker struggling with mounting recalls, said it's further delaying the start of sales for the redesigned Legend sedan to conduct additional checks on its radar safety system and hybrid powertrain.
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2014
Honda starts investigative recall in Okinawa over Takata air bags
Honda Motor Co. has begun an investigative recall in Okinawa over air bags made by Takata Corp., the first such move in Japan, a company official said Monday.
BUSINESS
Dec 19, 2014
Takata issues apology ad in U.S., Germany but not in Japan
Takata Corp. issued an apology advertisement in U.S. and German newspapers on Thursday, as the Japanese auto parts supplier has been embattled due to global recalls over its potentially defective air bags.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 11, 2014
Honda, Nissan widen air bag recalls in Japan after junkyard rupture
Honda Motor Co., Nissan Motor Co. and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. on Thursday followed Toyota Motor Corp. and widened air bag recalls in Japan after one of the devices made by Takata Corp. ruptured in a junked car.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 11, 2014
Takata patent history shows decades spent seeking safer air bags
Air bag patents show researchers probed ways to make the devices more durable and the explosive propellant inside them more stable for decades before the Takata Corp. products designed to save lives started killing people.
BUSINESS
Dec 9, 2014
Honda air bag recall goes global; 19 million cars now involved
Honda Motor Co. says it will expand its recall to replace potentially lethal Takata Corp. air bag inflators, taking the total number of vehicles affected to more than 19 million.
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2014
Takata air bag recall could affect over 3 million cars in Japan, ministry says
The transport ministry expressed fears Thursday that recalls related to potentially defective air bags produced by Tokyo-based auto parts supplier Takata Corp. could affect more than 3 million cars in the country.
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2014
Mazda to recall over 60,000 vehicles due to brake problem
Mazda Motor Corp. said Thursday it will recall a total of 61,647 units of the CX-5 sport utility vehicle and Atenza sedan, known as the Mazda6 overseas, produced between February 2012 and September 2013 to fix a break problem.
BUSINESS
Dec 4, 2014
Honda to expand air bag recall across entire U.S.
Honda Motor announces it will expand its recall campaign to the entire United States to address the risks linked to Takata Corp. air bags.
BUSINESS
Dec 4, 2014
Takata snub of recall request not backed by data, NHTSA says
The top U.S. auto-safety regulator told lawmakers Wednesday there is no way Takata Corp. can justify limiting an air-bag recall to only high-humidity states.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 1, 2014
Inside Takata, tantrums but little sense of crisis over air bags
Shigehisa Takada, the third-generation head of Takata Corp., shows little sense of the crisis engulfing the Japanese air bag maker at the center of one of the auto industry's biggest safety recalls, according to three people who have met him recently.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 26, 2014
Takata air-bag rupture in Japan signals more automaker recalls
The transport ministry said Wednesday a Takata Corp. air bag ruptured in a model not covered by existing recalls, suggesting automakers may have to expand safety campaigns to replace the devices linked to five deaths.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 23, 2014
Toyota recalls 400,000 Lexus models due to fuel leak fire hazard
Toyota Motor Corp. recalled more than 400,000 Lexus vehicles in the United States because of the risk of fire caused by fuel leaks.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 21, 2014
Explosive mix at Takata air bag factories
The dusty, industrial town of Ciudad Frontera, Mexico, has moved from the far reaches of the global auto supply chain to the front lines of an investigation into why air bags from Takata Corp. are blowing up with lethal force in accidents.
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.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 13, 2014
Takata subpoenaed by federal grand jury in U.S. as chairman apologizes
Takata Corp., the Japanese air-bag maker at the center of a global recall crisis, has been subpoenaed by a U.S. federal grand jury to explain the defects with its safety devices.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 12, 2014
Takata chairman stays out of sight as air bag crisis imperils dynasty
Takata Corp. Chairman Shigehisa Takada's failure to come forward and address an air bag crisis ensnaring the world's biggest automakers risks shaking investor confidence in the 81-year-old company's prospects.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 11, 2014
Takata coverage suspended by SMBC Nikko, citing air bag crisis
Takata Corp. was suspended from coverage by a securities firm that said the lawsuits and recalls the air bag maker faces in the U.S. cloud its earnings outlook.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
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JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Putin’s war will soon reach Russians’ tax bills
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Kyotographie's strong 12th edition shines light into the margins
Yassine Alaoui Ismaili, who goes by Yoriyas, turned to photography, shooting motion while in motion himself, after an injury forced him to give up his career as a professional breakdancer.

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