Japan

Japan's Toyota Motor is ramping up production of its hybrid vehicles, which includes setting up a third battery plant in co-operation with Matsushita Electric Industrial. Panasonic... 2008-05-28

Japanese carmaker Nissan Motor and electronic specialist NEC Corp have revealed details of their partnership aimed at producing battery packs for electric vehicles. The partners will... 2008-05-19

After two years of relative protectionism, Bosch seems to be in an aggressive mood in 2008. With strong forecasts for 2008, the company is heading for major acquisitions in Asia and... 2008-05-15

Toyota has secured further shares in steelmaker Daido Steel, according to Japanese business daily the Nikkei, at time when rising input costs are hurting vehicle and steel producers... 2008-05-01

Japanese carmaker Honda will invest US$485mn in a new small car plant, according to reports from Japanese daily Nikkei. Based in Yokkaichi, the plant will use new automated production... 2008-03-10

Toyota is rolling out a new range of models that conform to its cost-cutting Value Innovation (VI) project, which was launched in 2005 and is designed to help it save at least JPY300bn... 2008-02-21

The influence of Japanese carmakers on the world stage has been further underlined, after Toyota overtook General Motors in terms of both sales and production in Q107. However, BMI's... 2007-04-27

Japan's Toyota has made good on its threat to become the world's leading carmaker, overtaking General Motors in terms of both global sales and production in Q107. Despite achieving... 2007-04-26

Despite stronger than expected economic growth in Q406, Japanese vehicle sales during calendar year 2006 declined by 2% y-o-y. BMI's latest Japan Automotives Report highlights the... 2007-02-19

The possibility of the Bank of Japan (BoJ) raising its overnight call rate by 25bps to 0.50% at its February 20-21 meeting has been boosted by stronger than expected Q406 GDP data,... 2007-02-15