Articles Tagged with ''Japanese manufacturing''

TOKYO—Major Japanese manufacturers, including Toyota and Panasonic, said they would boost employees’ salaries for the first time in years, heeding a call from the prime minister ahead of a sales tax rise next month.

WASHINGTON—Japanese auto parts maker Bridgestone Group has agreed to pay a fine of $425 million to the U.S. Department of Justice over anti-trust allegations related to the sale of anti-vibration rubber products for vehicles.

TOKYO—After three decades as one of the world’s biggest exporters, Japan is now a net importer, due to outsourcing and energy-related imports.

WASHINGTON—More than 80,000 hourly and salaried U.S. auto workers have signed a petition raising serious concerns about the impact Japan’s entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership will have on American jobs and the economy.

SAITAMA, Japan—People and humanoid robots are working side by side on an assembly line at an assembly plant here that makes money-handling machines.

TOKYO—Honda Motor Co. is building a new assembly plant in Japan, its first in the country in nearly 50 years.

KAWAUCHI, Japan—A Tokyo-based manufacturer will open a factory in this village that was up until this April completely evacuated due to the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant disaster.

TOKYO—Japanese manufacturers are doing more assembly jobs by hand in an effort to slash power consumption in the face of possible electric shortages.