The American company Better Place, which provides infrastructure for electric vehicles will be in January together with the largest taxi company in Japan Nihon Kotsu begin a pilot project, reports the Japan Times. The project consists of electric taxis, which are equipped with a replaceable battery and a battery exchange station at Rppongi Hills in Tokyo. (more…)
Jun
19
Tokyo is testing electric taxis
Jun
18
Shinkansen in Brazil faster than the competition?
In the year 2014 will be held the football World Cup in Brazil. The courting of the contract for the high speed line, which Brazil wants to build there, has already begun, although the details of the tender are not yet known. Japan is particularly keen to implement the Shinkansen technology abroad for a large project. (more…)
Jun
13
Nova-founder has 3.5 years in prison
The Osaka District Court has Nozomu Sahashi, the founder and former president of the Nova language school chain, today found guilty of embezzlement of 320 million yen and sentenced to 3.5 years in prison necessarily. The prosecution had asked for five years in prison Sahashi, writes the Asahi Shimbun. (more…)
Jun
12
Taxi flood in Sendai
Before the West entrance to the station of Sendai waiting taxis in up to 12 rows of passengers. This army of vehicles leads the oversupply of taxis and the resulting competition in the capital city of the Tohoku region about 300 km northeast of Tokyo clearly in mind.Increasing competition, declining revenueThe strong increase in the number taxis in Sendai is the result of liberalization under former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. (more…)
Jun
11
Government rescue plan for Kansai Airport
The Japanese transport ministry plans A rescue plan for the Kansai International Airport in the budget request for fiscal year 2010 included. The Japanese government supports the airport today can serve each year with 9 billion yen. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism would like to increase that amount to several billion yen, reports the Japan Times. (more…)
Jun
08
Revenge of the “lost generation”
Japan finally seems out of the recession lasted for a year to find, but for the generation of 20-year-old, who choose this year for the first time, the crisis is far from over. A survey commissioned by the Times among students in their final year at a university in Tokyo survey by a pessimistic picture. (more…)
Jun
06
If it comes to Super Fusion?
In Japanese aviation scene has long been circulating on the following joke: If there should be a merger of ANA, there is a problem with the name of the new company. “JANA” is a bad omen because it is reminiscent of the farewell “jaa ne” which means something like, “So then” means. And “anal” is now not really. (more…)
Jun
04
Japan conquered the iPhone
Lange went the experts believe that Apple's iPhone in the Japanese mobile phone market would remain a marginal phenomenon. The market was too complex with its numerous mobile phone manufacturers. Pay too much to the electronic with the mobile phone used to the customer.Now Apple has Proved that the Japanese prefer the Japanese high-tech mobile phones have an iPhone. (more…)
Jun
03
The mood rises
According to a On behalf of the Mainichi Shimbun survey, the majority of Japanese companies believe the worst of the crisis was reached. 42.5 percent of the 120 companies surveyed said that the low point had already been exceeded. 23.3 per cent were of the view that he had not yet achieved”Thanks to the economic stimulus measures in various countries, and inventory adjustment is the production and export drop halted,” said a representative from Mitsubishi Electric. (more…)
Jun
02
Japan's rich old men
Japan's older generation hold large assets. According to the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs were between 70 and 80 years old Japanese possessed in 2008, an average of 24.15 million yen. “While there are no exact figures, but they say the older generations were 70-80 percent of all assets in Japan» Yasuhide Yajima, chief economist at NLI Research Institute said, told the Financial Times. (more…)