Nissan Motor Co plans to roll out 200,000 vehicles annually by 2009 in India.10 parts manufacturers are also planning to set up shop in India.
Construction on the factory will begin tomorrow (2007) today if you are reading this overseas….
The cars will be 1-litre-class subcompacts with 30% for the Indian market and the rest for Europe […]
Fuji Xerox Co. has developed the world's fastest toner-based printer.The machines use light instead of heat to affix toner to paper and cuts paper rolls AFTER printing.
The result - 450 A4 (almost 8.5 x 11) size pages per minute.
The printer will be available in Japan this spring at a very hot price of 200 million […]
At one point, during Japan's real estate bubble, it was costing $33,000 a square foot to just buy land! Forget about the house you might want to put on it.
It is still expensive.
The top ten places to give up trying to buy land in Japan are:
10. Hiroshima - $1,250 a square foot
9. Kyoto - $1,347 […]
Nintendo beat all comers in game software in '06 with sales of more than 31 million units, twice and then some of what it sold last year.
No credit was given to Wii for making Nintendo the winner. The Wii was launched too late for any of its games to make the top ten.
Of the top […]
Honda Motor Co. announced that the car of the future is just one Chinese cycle away…2018 is the launch year for fuel-cell cars for the general public.
Super rich kids in elementary school now can expect to get one of these super environment-friendly cars for high school graduation.
Honda already has the FCX Concept fuel-cell car planned […]
I don't know if it qualifies me as being cold-hearted, but I was anxious to read the news this morning, knowing that Hussein would be gone by the time I got up.
He was.
I wonder…why it took so long and so much money to do the deed.
Japan's Prime Minister Abe has pledged to continue […]
If you want to buy a house in Tokyo, it is best to hope you grew up there and your parents or in-laws have land to spare.
Japan's housing prices are second only to London for a detached house….but the amount of land you can get in Tokyo is half of what the Brits get.
Housing prices […]
In 2005, Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare reported that domestic violence in Japan occurred in nearly 40 percent of homes.
Among married couples 26.7% of women reported they had been beaten by their spouse.
The women folk, however, are fighting back…13.8% of men say they had been beaten by their wives.
Whoa! And the world […]
Toyota Motor Corp. knows it needs to produce a more economical car to be competitive in China and India.
Toyota's answer is to first start producing 80,000 - 90,000 Yaris cars beginning in mid-2008. The Yaris is sold as the Vits in Japan.
Guangzhou Automobile Group and Toyota will team up to make the cars.
Toyota thinks the […]
The Japanese brokerage, Nomura Securities Co., advised the largest number of deals in 2005 but lost the top spot to Goldman Sachs in terms of transaction value.
1. Goldman Sachs deals amounted to $48.68 billion.
2. UBS.
3. Merrill Lynch
5. Nomura engaged in 154 deals worth $27.35 billion.
6. Japan's Mizuho Financial Group worked deals worth $25.97 billion.
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