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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 20, 2020
Toyota logs first domestic coronavirus infection
Toyota Motor Corp. said a man at its Takaoka plant in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, has tested positive for the coronavirus.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 19, 2020
Biggest factory shutdown since WWII cripples virus-hit U.S. and Europe
The economic impact of the growing coronavirus outbreak is shifting from service driven industries like hotels and restaurants to the manufacturing sector on both sides of the Atlantic, leading to a synchronized shutdown of heavy industry that historians and industry experts say is unlike any seen since...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 17, 2020
Now made in Mexico: Japan auto suppliers shift China production after virus shock
In the Chinese coastal province of Jiangsu, where supply chains have been severed by the coronavirus outbreak, one auto supplier has already shifted production of parts for Mazda Motor Corp. to a site 13,000 kilometers away, in central Mexico's Guanajuato state.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 4, 2020
Nissan faces more pain before gain as business hit further by coronavirus, new CEO says
CEO Makoto Uchida promised to unveil a turnaround plan in May, on top of cutting more than 12,500 jobs amid decade-low profits and management turmoil caused by Carlos Ghosn's 2018 arrest.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2020
Tesla barely registers in Japan, the world's third-largest auto market
For all of Elon Musk’s domination of the burgeoning electric vehicle business, Tesla Inc. is struggling to get traction in Japan, a market he put on a pedestal early in the automaker’s early days.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 28, 2020
Japanese automakers' output in China tumbles in January
Automobile production by major Japanese makers in China plunged in January from a year earlier, data from the companies showed Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 27, 2020
Autonomous driving startup Pony.ai raises $462 million in Toyota-led funding
Autonomous driving firm Pony.ai said it raised $462 million in its latest funding round, led by an investment by Toyota Motor Corp.
BUSINESS
Feb 25, 2020
Nissan warns about future of European plants as Brexit weighs
Nissan Motor Co. gave the starkest warning yet on the future of the Japanese group's car factories in Western Europe, with a plant in the U.K. threatened by Brexit and another in Spain suffering from a slump in demand.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 23, 2020
Germany's mighty carmakers watch with fear as 'golden age' fades
When Kristin and Thomas Schmitt took out a mortgage and bought a house last summer, the German couple's dream looked as if it was coming true. Two months later, they learned that the tire factory where both work would be shut down early next year.

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