September 26, 2012
September 25, 2012 -- Dentsu Inc. (President & CEO: Tadashi Ishii; Head Office: Tokyo) announced today that in addition to Dentsu Inc. winning two Grand Prix, Dentsu Group companies received a total of eight Gold Spikes in the Film, Digital, Promo & Activation, Design and Integrated categories at the Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity 2012 held from September 16 to 18 in Singapore.
September 26, 2012
September 25, 2012, Osaka Japan -- Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (“Santen”) today announced that it will establish a new wholly owned sales and marketing company (“Newco”) in China.
September 25, 2012
Hanoi and Tokyo, September 24, 2012 -- The Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) and JCB International (JCBI), the international operations subsidiary of JCB, the only global payment brand based in Japan, have officially announced today the launch of the new Vietcombank JCB EMV chip credit card. Vietcombank is proud to be the first bank in Vietnam to issue a JCB credit card using EMV chip technology.
September 25, 2012
-- The Company’s Compovision near-infrared camera will be showcased at P-mec Europe held on October 9 to 11, 2012 --
September 24, 2012
-- Enables Wireless Printing from iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch --
September 24, 2012
September 24, 2012 -- Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (“NSSMC”) will be established on October 1, 2012 through a merger between Nippon Steel Corporation and Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
September 21, 2012
Sept. 21, 2012 -- In 2010, I set Honda's "Direction for the next 10 years" which is "to provide good products to our customers with speed, affordability and low CO2 emissions." Since then, we have been devoting our full efforts in leveraging Honda's unique technologies, ideas and ingenuity to create attractive products that please our customers who purchased such products. In addition, as a manufacturer of personal mobility products, we have been proactively executing various initiatives which contribute to a significant reduction of CO2 emissions.
September 21, 2012
HIROSHIMA, Japan -- Mazda Motor Corporation will incorporate "i-ACTIVSENSE" technologies into the all-new Mazda6 (known as Atenza in Japan) to be launched later this year. i-ACTIVSENSE is a series of Mazda's advanced safety technologies designed to aid the driver in recognizing hazards, avoiding collisions and reducing the severity of accidents when they cannot be avoided.
September 19, 2012
-- Overall power output of Panasonic's HIT solar power generating system does not degrade even when the system is operated with high system voltages under high temperature and high humidity. --
September 19, 2012
YOKOHAMA, Japan, Sept. 19, 2012 -- Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. today announced that Japan dealers have received 21,880 market orders for the all-new Nissan Note compact only two weeks after its launch on September 3.
September 18, 2012
Sept. 18, 2012 -- ITOCHU Corporation (headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo; Masahiro Okafuji, President & CEO; hereinafter “ITOCHU”) and Dole Food Company, Inc. (headquartered in Westlake Village, California, USA; hereinafter “Dole”) have agreed and signed a definitive agreement for ITOCHU’s acquisition of Dole’s worldwide packaged foods and Asia fresh produce businesses for $1.685 billion.
September 18, 2012
Tokyo, September 18, 2012 -- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today it has been designated as a "Green Asia Special Global Strategy Synthesis Area" company in Japan's Fukuoka Prefecture. Under this designation, Mitsubishi Electric's Fukuoka-based Power Device Works, a base for the development and manufacture of power devices, will accelerate development of new technologies and products including silicon carbide (SiC) power devices.
September 14, 2012
September 14, 2012 -- Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC, President: Hirobumi Kawano) announced today that it will provide equity financing to INPEX Gas British Columbia Ltd. (“IGBC”), which, jointly established by INPEX CORPORATION and JGC Corporation, has acquired a 40% participating interest in British Columbia shale gas assets.
September 14, 2012
Toyota City, Japan, September 13, 2012 -- Toyota Motor Corporation's (TMC's) Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC), an advanced safety research center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the United States, yesterday announced new joint research partners -- Stanford University, Toronto University, University of California San Diego and Ohio State University -- and seven new research programs.
September 13, 2012
Sept. 13, 2012, TOKYO -- Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce the release of the Nikon D600. Despite having the smallest and lightest body among Nikon FX-format cameras, the D600 offers advanced basic camera performance, and is equipped with a new FX-format CMOS image sensor with an effective pixel count of 24.3-million pixels and the same EXPEED 3 image-processing engine built into high-end Nikon D-SLRs (D4, D800, D800E) for superior definition and image quality.
September 13, 2012
TOKYO, Japan, September 13, 2012 -- Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced that it earned the second highest disclosure scores among all Japanese companies in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)(*1) 2012 Global 500 Report (10th annual report) released yesterday by the CDP, which analyzes the world's 500 largest companies' initiatives in addressing countermeasures against global warming and disclosing information regarding greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
September 12, 2012
Sep. 12, 2012 --The consortium among four (4) companies (hereinafter “MITC Consortium") consisting of MODEC, Inc. (MODEC), IHI Corporation (IHI), Toyo Engineering Corporation (TOYO) and CB&I Nederland B.V. (CB&I) announced that MITC consortium has been awarded a contract from Malaysian state-operated oil company, Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) for the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) of a Floating LNG (FLNG) Project on dual FEED mode in Malaysia.
September 12, 2012
September 12, 2012 -- Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. (Sumitomo Metals) has decided to make a capital investment in its subsidiary Standard Steel, LLC. in the United States.
September 11, 2012
-- Selected by Ministry of Environment for Research and Development against Global Climate Change --
September 11, 2012
September 11, 2012 -- PENTAX RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD. is pleased to announce the launch of the PENTAX-06 TELEPHOTO ZOOM, an interchangeable telephoto zoom lens designed for exclusive use with super-compact Q-mount digital Interchangeable-Lens cameras.