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Sales of imported motor vehicles in Japan, including those made at Japanese carmakers’ overseas plants, plunged 22.7% in October from a year earlier to 11,390 units amid severe economic conditions, an industry body said. The number represents the 18th...
Tags: Japan Automobile Dealers Association, Japan Automobile Importers Association, Toyota Motor Corp.
Updated on Monday, November 02, 2009, 18:59 IST Tokyo: Tyre maker Bridgestone's exit from Formula One is part of an exodus by Japanese automotive industry giants from the multi-million-dollar sport amid the worst industry slump in decades.
Tags: Suzuki Motor, India, Japan Automobile Dealers Association, billion yen, india sales, profit forecasts, suzuki quadruples
Toyota’s Prius hybrid was the top-selling car in Japan in September for the fifth straight month, helped by tax breaks and government incentives for ‘green’ vehicles, an industry group said Tuesday. Toyota Motor Corp, the world’s biggest automaker, sold...
Tags: Japan Automobile Dealers Association, Toyota Motor Corp., selling cars
Japan’s housing starts dived 38.3% in August from a year earlier to 59,749 units for the ninth straight month of decline, with condominium construction starts falling notably, the government said Wednesday. Starts on condos for sale by developers plunged...
Toyota's hugely popular Prius ranked as Japan's best-selling car in August, keeping the top spot for the fourth consecutive month with the help of government subsidies and tax breaks, an auto industry group said Friday. The Japan Automobile Dealers Association...
Tags: Japan Automobile Dealers Association, Toyota Motor Corp., Toyota Prius, Bloomberg, selling cars
Mercedes-Benz launches 1st luxury hybrid model in Japan Tokyo: Mercedes-Benz Japan Co., an arm of Daimler AG of Germany, released the S-Class hybrid sedan Thursday, becoming the first foreign automaker to roll out an electric-gasoline model in the Japanese...
Tags: Mercedes-Benz Japan Co., Japan Automobile Dealers Association, Japan Tokyo, selling cars, Toyota Motor Corp., Toyota Prius
Japan's Toyota Motor aims to cut the cost of producing its compact cars by a billion dollars a year as their demand is likely to grow amid the global recession, a report said on Sunday. The world's top automaker plans to use common platforms and parts...
Tags: Japan Automobile Dealers Association, RBS Securities Japan Ltd., Toyota Motor, trillion yen, Nikkei, Bloomberg, electric cars, account surplus, billion yen, Mitsubishi Motors Corp
Lines curled around for blocks in downtown Tokyo Monday for 5,000 tiny but freebie diamonds French jeweller Mauboussin was giving away in an attention-getting drive in Japan, a nation where it's still unknown. ``A value of a diamond doesn't go down. And...
It may not be dawn yet for Japan's ailing economy but the darkness is starting to fade as the country's factories spring back to life and the benefits of massive public spending take root. Fueling those hopes were fresh reports Thursday from the government...
Tags: Nikko Citigroup, Nikko Cordial Securities Inc., Citi Japan, Japan Automobile Dealers Association, billion yen, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Tokyo, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp
The Bank of Japan predicted the recession would lead to a 3.1 percent gross domestic product contraction in the year ending in March 2010. The prediction is a sharp increase in the bank's assessment of the country's economic troubles.
Tags: Japan Automobile Dealers Association, Chrysler LLC, Akinori Iwamura, Tokyo, Toshihiro Nikai, jobless rate, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, yen inning, Bridgestone Corp., Nintendo Co.