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JAPAN
Aug 11, 2013
Toyota, China's Tsinghua University jointly studying PM2.5 air pollutants
Toyota Motor Corp. and China's prestigious Tsinghua University are conducting joint research on air pollution, in a rare instance of cooperation amid the Senkakus clash.
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.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 2, 2013
Toyota ups profit forecast on yen fall
Toyota Motor Corp., Asia's biggest carmaker, on Friday raised its full-year profit forecast by 8 percent, as the weaker yen bolsters the value of Japanese cars sold overseas.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 31, 2013
Chinese dismiss Japan auto brands
Japanese auto brands posted a significant decline in customer satisfaction in China among foreign automakers, after the Senkaku Islands dispute sparked nationwide protests last year.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 29, 2013
Carmakers join push to spread charging stations
Domestic automakers led by Nissan Motor Co., producer of the zero-emission Leaf car, said they'll team up to build up the number of the charging stations across the country to speed up adoption of electric cars.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 24, 2013
Japan Inc. backs Olympics bid: Cho
Corporate Japan is an active promoter of sports and is completely behind the effort to secure the 2020 Olympic Games for Tokyo, Toyota Motor Corp. Honorary Chairman Fujio Cho said Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 23, 2013
Steel maker reaches price hike pact
Kyodo Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. have agreed on a price hike for sheet metal in the April-September period of about ¥10,000 per ton, sources said Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jul 3, 2013
Global automakers team up in three groups on fuel cells
With the partnership announced Tuesday by Honda Motor Co. and General Motors Co., major global automakers have now divided into three competing groups in the development of fuel-cell technologies, with each including a Japanese player.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 2, 2013
Toyota targets emerging markets in sales blitz
Toyota Motor Corp. will aim to boost sales in emerging markets from 3.7 million vehicles in 2012 to 5 million in the future, a company executive said Monday as the automaker predicts its global sales will reach a record 10 million units.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 20, 2013
Toyota website victim of cyberattack; no customer data leak confirmed
Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday some of its Japanese website content had been tampered with through a cyberattack that could have exposed visitors to a malicious program.
BUSINESS
Jun 18, 2013
Zero-emission cars hard sell in U.S.
Automakers are coming under increasing pressure to sell zero-emission vehicles to U.S. consumers who haven't shown much interest in them, with more states following California's lead in setting sales targets.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 13, 2013
Toyota to hit U.S. sales goal for Prius after all: Lentz
Toyota Motor Corp. said it will meet its U.S. sales goal for the Prius after saying in April that it might adjust the target as declining gas prices sap demand for the hybrid car.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 9, 2013
Imperial Family's car woes sparked Toyota whistleblower
In 2008, Toyota faced an embarrassing problem: The Imperial Family's luxury Century Royal, used to carry Crown Prince Naruhito around Japan, was a dud.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 9, 2013
Dark sides of Toyota's drive to be No. 1
Like most corporate giants, Toyota isn't all squeaky clean. Yet in their book 'Toyota no Shotai' ('The True Colors of Toyota') published in Japanese in 2006, Hajime Yokota and Makoto Sataka catalog the Japanese media's timidity when it comes to covering the nation's top advertiser.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 9, 2013
How even the mightiest can sometimes succumb to their own success
Toyota was famously slow to respond to the glut of claims of sudden acceleration problems afflicting some of its vehicles — at least until a now-notorious recording of an emergency 911 call made from one of the passengers stuck in 45-year-old California Highway Patrolman Mark Saylor's speeding Lexus on Aug. 28, 2009.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 9, 2013
'Lurching' Lexus fortunately just ran into a wall
Tanya Spotts, a real estate agent from Hamilton, Virginia, bought a new Lexus E350 in 2011. This is her story.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 6, 2013
Toyota recalls 242,000 Prius, Lexus hybrids
Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it is recalling around 242,000 units of its Prius and Lexus hybrid vehicles worldwide because of a problem with their brake systems.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 5, 2013
Price cuts help boost Nissan's U.S. sales 25%
Nissan Motor Co.'s U.S. sales surged 25 percent in May, triple the industrywide gain, after cutting prices and increasing incentives.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 1, 2013
Toyota Tsusho, Carrefour to form joint retail venture in Africa
Trading house Toyota Tsusho Corp. and French supermarket operator Carrefour SA have announced they will set up a joint retail venture in Africa.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 22, 2013
Toyoda takes second in car race
Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda took the steering wheel in the Nurburgring 24-hour endurance race through Monday in western Germany, with his team finishing second in its class, the automaker said.

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