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TOYOTA

Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2013
Tokyo Motor Show still green, tries to spark pizazz
Japanese and foreign car manufacturers offered a glimpse of the future as they unveiled their latest eco-friendly and unique next-generation concept cars as the 43rd Tokyo Motor Show was opened to the media Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 20, 2013
Camry tweaks eyed to keep its lead in U.S. sales
Toyota Motor Corp.'s Camry, headed for a 12th straight year as the best-selling U.S. car, will get "significant attention," including freshened features, to hold the title a 13th year, the brand's U.S. sales chief said.
LIFE / Language / THE BUZZ
Nov 9, 2013
Ima desho!: Do it now!
今でしょ!
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 7, 2013
Staying home paying off for Toyota amid weakening yen
Staying at home is paying off for Toyota Motor Corp.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 29, 2013
Camry loses Consumer Reports nod
Consumer Reports pulled its recommendation for Toyota Motor Corp.'s Camry sedan and said post-bankruptcy General Motors Co. is among the automakers cracking Japanese brands' dominance in fielding reliable cars.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 25, 2013
Toyota fined $3 million by U.S. jury
Toyota Motor Corp. must pay $3 million in a lawsuit claiming that a defect in a Camry caused the vehicle to suddenly accelerate, leading to an accident that left one woman dead and another injured, an Oklahoma jury says.
BUSINESS / THE VIEW FROM EUROPE
Oct 13, 2013
Crumbling keiretsu networks good sign for foreign firms and Japan
For years and decades, foreign observers have cried foul over various barriers — both existing and perceived — to the Japanese economy. Their main target is usually the keiretsu, the closely knit business networks automakers exclusively maintain with groups of 200 to 300 suppliers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 11, 2013
Toyota wins first acceleration trial
Toyota Motor Corp. was not responsible for an accident that killed a 66-year-old woman who crashed her 2006 Camry into a tree after it sped out of control on a road and into oncoming traffic, a Los Angeles jury finds.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 11, 2013
Hydrogen prototype takes to the road in race toward fuel cells
Toyota Motor Corp. has long held out hydrogen as the ultimate alternative to gasoline for powering automobiles. Soon, consumers will be able to kick the tires of its fuel-cell car and those of other automakers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 9, 2013
Honda Fit designed as 'Prius-killer' in challenge to Toyota
Honda Motor Co. wants to remind the world that hybrid means more than the Prius.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 8, 2013
Toyoda tries to revive love for cars
While Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda is on the cusp of a record year for profit, kids nowadays make him nervous. They're so clueless that boys without cars have the nerve to ask girls out.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 1, 2013
Full electric future still far off, says Toyota chair
Toyota Chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada rode his pioneering work on the Prius hybrid to the top of the world's biggest car company.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 30, 2013
Toyota maintains Interbrand ranking at No. 10 in world
Seven Japanese firms made it onto the list of the top 100 most valuable brands in the world for 2013 compiled by U.S. consultancy Interbrand.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 17, 2013
Eiji Toyoda was instrumental in turning Toyota into export giant
Eiji Toyoda, who died Tuesday in Aichi Prefecture, spearheaded Toyota Motor Corp.'s expansion in the U.S. as the automaker's longest-serving president.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 5, 2013
Remodeled Honda Fit to debut Friday
Honda Motor Co. will debut its remodeled Fit hatchback Friday in Japan to challenge Toyota Motor Corp.'s lead in hybrid compacts.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2013
Prius to get boost from new battery upgrades
Toyota Motor Corp., whose Prius dominates the market for hybrid vehicles, said its next generation of batteries will be more efficient and improve mileage.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 28, 2013
Toyota U.S. chief testifies brakes pitched as 'Smart Stop' instead of 'Safe Stop'
Toyota Motor Corp. opted against marketing its brake-override system as "Safe Stop" to avoid promising more than the mechanism could deliver for driver safety, the company's top U.S. executive told a California jury.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 25, 2013
Lexus takes aim at young buyers in Middle East
Toyota Motor Corp.'s Lexus unit decided to open one of its three new global luxury concept stores in Dubai to cater to growth opportunities in the Middle East, where consumers are among the youngest in the world.
EDITORIALS
Aug 13, 2013
Opportunity to raise wages
armakers and other large Japanese manufacturers should take a cue from better business results of late, due to the weaker yen, and increase workers' wages.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 9, 2013
Subaru's record surge leads FHI to debate staying niche player
Which carmaker's stock has risen the most — some fivefold — since the beginning of 2012, besides Tesla Motors Inc.? Subaru producer Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers