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23 Jan. “Cooperation upon the expertise of stakeholders are important”, said CEO of Toyota, in search for cooperation with Mr. Trump
At the ceremony of the launch of mass production of the new bus, “Coaster”, held in Kakamigahara-shi, Gifu-ken, Mr. Akio Toyota, CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation, said with regard to the new US administration, “Either automobile companies or the administration alone cannot make the region happy. What’s important is for all the stakeholders to work together drawing on their own expertise”. This indicate that he would cooperate with the US administration.
Comments: It is still wait and see as to the way the new US administration would influence on the private sector activities in the country.
24 Jan. H-2A rocket successfully launched, the first communications satellite of Ministry of Defense
The 32nd unit of H-2A rocket that carried communications satellite of the Ministry of Defense, “Kirameki 2”, on board was successfully launched at 4:44 PM on 24th by Tanegashima space center of Kagoshima-ken.
Comments: A benchmark of the development of rockets made-in-Japan.
25 Jan. Automatic driving tractor for rice planting, announced by Kubota
Agricultural machinery major, Kubota announced that the company will start selling automatic driving tractors to monitors from June. Kubota will be the first company to sell automatic driving agricultural machinery in Japan. Envisaging an increasing scale of the agriculture with less workforce, the company plans to put it on sale for the wide public in 2018.
Comments: True, an automatic driving could work in the agriculture which will have to be carried on with decreasing workforce.
26 Jan. Your walking age is known by walking for 6m, a system developed by Asics & NEC
Asics and NEC developed a system which could tell the “walking age”by detecting the age equivalent of a way of walking by walking only about 6 meters towards a sensor apparatus. At n expected market entry is from nursing facilities for the elders as the system helps formulating menus of the exercise to prevent them from falling.
Comments: Do you want to try it?
27 Jan. Toshiba to branch out its semiconductor business, inviting bids early next month
Toshiba decided in the meeting of board of directors held today to branch out one of its core sectors of semiconductor business. The company plans to sell some of the stocks of the new company to pay for a huge loss caused by its nuclear power plant business in the United States. After having shareholders’ approval in an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting to be held at the end of March, Toshiba plan to officially branch out the semiconductor business.
Comments: Competition map of the semiconductor vendors may change.
- All the news items are picked up from “Asahi Digital”, and summarized and translated by Europe-Japan Dynamics. The articles are not an official translation by the Asahi Newspaper.