The number of tourists who traveled to Japan in November, has risen year on year by 2.1 percent to 565,000 persons. For the first time in 16 months recorded the Japanese tourism organization to rise again. This is thanks to the rapid economic recovery in China and South Korea.The number of travelers from neighboring South Korea has risen by 11 percent to 134,000 persons.

Honda plans to bring the end of 2010 in India and other emerging countries a cheap small car to market. With the 1-liter car, which is currently still in development, the carmaker wants to enlarge its market share in this booming market, the Yomiuri Shimbun wrote. Honda has been in India is not quite grasp the foot, in contrast to rival Suzuki, which controls nearly half the Indian car market.

The largest steel producer in the world threatens to China next year, a shortage of coking coal for steel production. Therefore, China will import more coal, which heats up the competition with Japanese and South Korean steel producers.This year, China's imports of coking coal increased by a factor of 12 because the government closed unsafe coal mines.

Hard in winter clothes, hundreds of people at the opening of the American clothing store chain Abercrombie & Fitch. The interest in the new store was so great that customers had to queue for entry.In the fashionable Ginza district Tokyo, where normally settle luxury shops, the clothing brand of moderately priced its first large store in Asia opened.

The Japanese automaker is currently put on quite the frugal hybrid and electric vehicles.About this development would be not only the environment but also the manufacturer of the batteries. For electric vehicles is the battery, which is normal for the motor car. As a true technological core, it determines the performance and the price of the vehicle.

Vietnam is planning a fast train from the capital Hanoi to Saigon in the economic capital to build. The technology is intended to come from Japan. Prime Minister Nguyen Huu Bang, the Japanese Nikkei Shimbun said that the government wants to use for the 1560 km long route, the Japanese Shinkansen technology.

In Shenzhen Require about 100 blaster compensation, as they are by years of inhaling dust at work may suffer from pneumoconiosis.Has been issued for any of the plaintiffs a diagnosis, because without payment does not pass through the appropriate hospital in Shenzhen the investigation. Actually, the employer would be obliged to assume the costs of work-related health problems.

Sales of beer and beer-like alcoholic beverages is expected to fall 2009 in Japan for the fifth consecutive year. Reports of Japan's five largest breweries, according to the sales are expected to fall to its lowest level since 1992, when the survey began in the data.The period from January to November, sales of beer, happoshu by 2.

The Japanese car manufacturer Suzuki ​​Council today an alliance with the German automaker Volkswagen announced. Volkswagen takes over 19.9 percent of the shares of Suzuki Suzuki while participating in an amount not exceeding 50 percent of this amount spent on Volkswagen.Of mutual interest arises, the world's largest alliance of automotive industry, reports the Asahi Shimbun.

The Polaroid instant camera is planning a comeback for the summer of 2010 in Japan, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported. Two years ago the production of instant cameras from the 1970s had been adjusted. Forever, as it was called then. Ironically, the Japanese American Polaroid digital cameras made the concept obsolete in the new millennium at the latest.