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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 25, 2023
Thai farmers tap into sustainable rubber industry
The vast majority of Thailand's rubber plantations are still worked conventionally, but a few farmers are abandoning pesticides to try and lessen their impact on the environment.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 1, 2019
Japan parts makers literally reinventing the wheel to keep up with shift to autonomous cars
The car industry is reinventing the wheel to prepare for autonomous vehicles.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 25, 2019
In digital era, Chelsea's tie-up with Yokohama Rubber blazes new trail in Japan
For Chelsea supporters, the club's iconic blue uniform represents 114 years of history, dozens of domestic and continental trophies and a reputation as one of English soccer's established giants.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 14, 2019
Japan trading house Itochu partners with Singapore's Halcyon to join sustainable rubber trade
Japanese trading house Itochu Corp. will aim to promote sustainable trade in natural rubber under a capital tie-up with a Singaporean market platform operator.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Mar 18, 2018
Fukushima professor develops rubber that can make and store power from light and vibration
Kunio Shimada, a professor of fluid mechanics and energy engineering at Fukushima University, has developed a special rubber that can generate electricity from solar and kinetic energy and save the power generated.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 8, 2016
Police quiz staff, ex-executive of Toyo Tire unit over data manipulation
The police questioned several people including employees and a former executive of a Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. subsidiary in connection with the shipment of products using substandard earthquake shock absorber material, investigative sources said Friday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 24, 2016
Police raid Toyo Tire's headquarters, eye criminal charges
Police raided the headquarters of Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., its subsidiary and two other relevant businesses for alleged fraudulent labeling in connection with a data falsification scandal, investigative sources said Thursday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 15, 2016
Toyo Tire profit shaken down over building quake pads scandal
Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. group net profit plummeted 94.6 percent to ¥1.67 billion for 2015 after a massive special loss from its data falsification scandal clobbered profits, the company said Monday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 25, 2016
China's foreign condom frenzy gives low-libido Japan an economic boost
In Japan, sex-drives have plunged so low that young, libido-challenged men are sometimes referred to as soshokukei danshi, or herbivore men.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 12, 2015
Scandal-hit Toyo Tire's shareholders approve president's exit, new management
Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. shareholders on Thursday approved the resignation of President Takuji Yamamoto and the appointment of new management to win back public trust after revelations that substandard earthquake shock absorber pads were fitted to buildings.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 30, 2015
Toyo Tire reveals 2,880 more tainted rubber products but slashes tally
Scandal-hit Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. said Friday another 2,880 units of its vibration-damping products used in trains are suspect because they were either not tested or based on falsified data.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 21, 2015
Season of scandal hits Japan with flurry of corporate confessions
Japan, which prides itself on maintaining propriety and order, has suddenly been hit by a spate of corporate scandals.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 14, 2015
Toyo Tire says rubber data manipulated; shares plunge
Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. said an internal probe found that it failed to test the quality of some rubber products and data was manipulated in other cases.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 18, 2015
Desert plant may become a better source of rubber
At a test track in Texas last month, Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. researchers discovered they are getting close to accomplishing a feat that eluded the great American inventor Thomas Edison.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 23, 2015
Toyo Tire chairman, president to resign over product data falsification
Toyo Tire & Rubber Co.'s chairman of the board and company president will resign to take responsibility for data falsification that led to the installation of defective earthquake shock absorbers in 154 buildings.
JAPAN
Jun 18, 2015
Toyo Tire chairman, president likely to resign over shoddy quake products
Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. Chairman Akira Nobuki and President Takuji Yamamoto are considering resigning following a scandal in which the company installed substandard earthquake shock absorption devices in some buildings, sources said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 22, 2015
90 more buildings found using dodgy quake dampers from Toyo Tire
Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. confirmed Tuesday that 90 more buildings have been built with its substandard earthquake shock absorption devices, bringing the total to 145.
JAPAN
Mar 17, 2015
Toyo Tire told to speed up checks of substandard quake-absorbing materials
The infrastructure ministry calls on Toyo Tire & Rubber to report on substandard quake-absorbing building materials sold by a subsidiary.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 27, 2013
Toyo Tire will pay $120 million U.S. cartel fine
Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $120 million fine for its role in price-fixing of automobile parts in the United States, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
Tokyo issues strong warning on yen intervention as currency dips further
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki speaks during a meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and South Korean Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok on the sidelines of IMF and G20 meetings in Washington last week.
Japan’s cannabis market growing rapidly amid regulatory shift
The legality of products that contain cannabinoids, a group of substances derived from the cannabis plant, has been somewhat murky in Japan.
North Korean animators may be involved in Japan anime production, report says
North Korean animators may be involved in the production of some Japanese and U.S. animated shows, according to a report by a website providing analysis on North Korea.
BOJ to hold rates with focus on hawkish signals to buoy yen
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda hasn’t ruled out responding to exchange rates with a policy move if the impact on prices is seen to be "non-negligible.”
New workers name Shohei Ohtani as 'dream boss' for two years running
Shohei Ohtani has been overwhelmingly voted as the “dream boss” for people who started working in April, according to a survey.
A craft beer crawl through Tokyo’s top bars, brewpubs and dives
If all you drink is Asahi, Sapporo and Kirin, you're depriving yourself of some of the best craft beer Tokyo has to offer — and there sure is a lot of it out there.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
Tsukiji 2030s: A stadium, culinary center and transportation hub
A computer-generated image shows redevelopment plans for the former site of the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo.
Hearing the impact of climate change in Okinawa, one bird call at a time
Toshihiro Kinjo (center), a research support technician at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, inspects an audio recording device in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 3 as Masako Ogasawara, a research support specialist at OIST, looks on.

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