Japan

Japan's Nissan Motor will relocate production of two models from Mississippi to Japan in FY2008/09, due to lower volume sales. According to Japanese business daily Nihon Keizai, the... 2006-10-02

Japan's Nissan Motor sold the remaining share in its Nissan Diesel division to Sweden's Volvo, in order to concentrate on its passenger car business, according to the UK's Financial... 2006-09-29

Japan's Nissan Motor sold the remaining share in its Nissan Diesel division to Sweden's Volvo, in order to concentrate on its passenger car business, according to the UK's Financial... 2006-09-29

Japan's Mitsubishi Motors has halved its y-o-y loss for the first quarter of the Japanese financial year ending June 30. Its operating loss of JPY6.79bn against JPY13.78bn for the... 2006-08-03

Japanese carmaker Nissan produced its 100 millionth vehicle in June, becoming the second Japanese manufacturer behind Toyota to do so. By the end of June, Nissan had produced 100.14mn... 2006-07-25

Japan's Honda Motor has underlined its commitment to the development of its hybrid range, with news of a new components plant in Japan. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun daily reported that... 2006-07-24

Full-year sales for 2005 showed a return to health for the Japanese market, with domestic sales up by 0.54%. This was in line with our forecast for constrained sales based on an anticipated... 2006-07-06

The period of 2000-2005 is at the tail-end of a long downward drift for the commercial vehicle industry in Japan and needs to be viewed with this perspective. Commercial vehicles... 2006-06-08