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RENESAS

Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Apr 4, 2018
Japan labor authorities say death of worker at Renesas unit was linked to overwork
The man died of a heart attack in 2017 after working an average of 80 extra hours per month in the four months before his death.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 10, 2017
Renesas may issue shares to fund war chest ahead of any buying spree: CEO
Automotive chip-maker Renesas Electronics Corp. is hungry for more acquisitions amid a wave of mega-mergers in the industry and may need to issue equity shares sometime in the future to build its war chest, Bunsei Kure, its CEO, said Monday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 13, 2016
Renesas to buy U.S. chip-maker Intersil for $3.2 billion
Renesas Electronics Corp. agreed to buy U.S. chipmaker Intersil Corp. for $3.2 billion, seeking to accelerate its efforts to sell more automotive components.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 22, 2016
Renesas Electronics looks to acquire Intersil amid automotive chip push
Renesas Electronics Corp. said Monday it is considering acquiring U.S. chipmaker Intersil Corp., but revealed few details of the prospective deal.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 1, 2016
Renesas embraces change with plans to outsource chip R&D
Renesas Electronics Corp. is doing something that only a decade ago would have been unthinkable for a Japanese semiconductor maker: outsourcing research overseas.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 2, 2014
Renesas eyes selling panel maker to Apple
Struggling chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp. is currently pondering the sale of its subsidiary business, developing liquid crystal display panels, to Apple Inc., sources said Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 1, 2014
Renesas to exit LCD chip market
Struggling chip-maker Renesas Electronics Corp. will withdraw from the market for small liquid crystal displays as part of efforts to turn around its business, an industry source said Saturday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 22, 2014
Renesas hopes to ax 5,400 more jobs
Struggling chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp., seeking to accelerate restructuring efforts, plans to slash another 5,400 domestic employees, or around 20 percent of its workforce, by the end of March 2016 through early retirements, according to company sources.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 27, 2013
Renesas to close major chip plant in Tohoku region
Struggling chip-maker Renesas Electronics Corp. is looking to close or shrink its major production base for system LSI chips in Tohoku after failing to sell it to a Taiwanese firm, company sources said Saturday.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 10, 2013
Net loss at Renesas balloons to ¥168 billion
Renesas Electronics Corp.'s group net loss expanded to ¥167.58 billion in the business year ended in March on sluggish sales and hefty restructuring costs, the struggling chipmaker said Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 22, 2013
Renesas in talks with overseas firms to sell mobile chip operations
The president of struggling Renesas Electronics Corp. said Thursday that the chipmaker is in talks with overseas companies on selling its loss-making mobile device chip operations as part of efforts to streamline its business.
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Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki has reiterated the government's readiness to take an appropriate action as the yen continues to slide against the U.S. dollar.
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A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
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.

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