Tokyo, July 16, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Motors Corporation has developed a new competition car, the Racing Lancer, whose mission will be to target victory on next year's Dakar which breaks new ground in 2009 with a switch
Credit Saison Co. said Wednesday that on September 1 it will absorb its fully owned subsidiary, Lawson CS Card Inc., to streamline sales promotion and administration work. Credit Saison will inherit some 1.73 million holders of the Lawson CS card,
Tokyo, July 16, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited announced today the development and launch of a new microcontroller driver for its MB91460 Series of high-performance 32-bit automotive microcontrollers, jointly developed with EB, Elektrobit Corporation and compatible with
Tokyo, July 16, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces its decision to acquire land in the city of Sorocaba, in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, as the site for a new plant for Toyota do
Fujitsu PC Asia Pacific today introduces its latest enhanced LifeBook tablet-convertible PCs, the LifeBook T5010 and LifeBook T1010. Both notebooks boast a generous 13.3" WXGA 1280 by 800 widescreen on an extended glass cover pivoting on a bi-directional hinge and
Domestic and overseas orders for Japanese machine tools in June were both down from a year earlier, marking the first such double drop since September 2002, an industry group said Wednesday. Overseas orders experienced its first fall in five months,
Major Japanese trading house Marubeni Corp. said Wednesday it has received an order to build a gas-fired cogeneration power plant from an electricity producer in Thailand. Marubeni won the order, worth some 33 billion yen, from Glow Energy Public Co.,
Meiji Dairies Corp. said Wednesday it will raise the prices of its cheese and margarine products on Sept. 1. The prices of 42 items will be either raised or kept unchanged with reduced volumes. The price hikes will range from
Yamaha Motor Co. said Wednesday that in September it will start making cast wheels for motorcycles in Vietnam to meet growing demand in Southeast Asia. For the integral manufacturing from casting to painting, the Japanese motorbike maker will invest 1.5
Japan Airlines is considering abolishing flights connecting Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, with Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture and Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, by March 2009, it was learned Wednesday. JAL is holding negotiations with local governments and communities on the withdrawal,
Japan's Fair Trade Commission on Tuesday ordered the two regional units of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. to stop their misleading advertisements for their fiber-optic Internet Protocol telephone services. The FTC's latest business improvement order for NTT East Corp. and
Nintendo Co. has caused a big paradigm shift in the video game market with its Nintendo DS portable and Wii home-use machines, President Satoru Iwata said Tuesday. Iwata made the remark at a media briefing for the just-started Electronic Entertainment
The benchmark Nikkei average finished a directionless session marginally higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday, as better-than-expected earnings by Intel Corp. underpinned the technology sector. Snapping a three-day losing streak, the 225-issue Nikkei average finished up 6.24 points at
Three major Japanese regional banks are set to form a business alliance featuring joint development of an advanced credit management system, informed sources said Wednesday. The three--Kagoshima Bank , Eighteenth Bank and Yamanashi Chuo Bank --judged it necessary to join
