Two of three workers rescued on Monday who were buried under a pile of scrap wood that fell on them have died. But the third worker in the accident at a plant of a building-materials maker in central Japan is expected to fully recovery.
Firefighters say they received an emergency call from the Chiyoda Ute plant in Kawagoe Town, Mie Prefecture, around 11:20 a.m. that morning.
Toyota entered a new segment of the Japanese market by launching an electric two-seater named C+pod that makes kei cars look bloated. It developed the tiny hatchback exclusively for crowded urban centers.
Announced only for Japan, the C+pod stretches 98 inches long, 50 inches wide, and 61 inches tall. Put another way, it nearly fits in the eight-foot box that Ford makes available on the F-150. It's 8 inches shorter and 15 inches lower than a Smart ForTwo, and it's about the same size as the Citroën Ami unveiled earlier in 2020.
Japan's tourism minister says two cities are to be excluded from the government's Go To Travel domestic tourism campaign due to a recent surge in the number of coronavirus cases there.
Akaba Kazuyoshi said on Tuesday that the campaign will be suspended for trips to Sapporo City in the northern prefecture of Hokkaido and Osaka City, western Japan, from Tuesday until December 15.
Japan's space agency announced that two more Japanese astronauts have been scheduled for long-term stays at the International Space Station.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said on Friday that Wakata Koichi will stay at the ISS sometime around 2022, and Furukawa Satoshi around 2023.
Two Japanese researchers are among potential Nobel laureates in a list released by a US scientific information service firm. This year's winners will be announced starting from October 5.
Clarivate Analytics has released a list of 24 influential researchers from six countries whose work, it says, is worthy of a Nobel Prize. The firm chose them after analyzing about 50 million papers.
Two powerful weather systems are bearing down on western Japan from different directions.
Weather officials are warning people on the southwestern island of Kyushu to prepare for a strong typhoon heading their way. At the same time, a severe tropical storm is expected to hit western Japan in the coming days.
The operator of the Japanese-owned bulk carrier that ran aground off Mauritius in late July has confirmed that the vessel has split in two.
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines said it confirmed at 2 p.m. on Saturday, local time, that the Wakashio had broken apart.
Two destroyers of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force are expected to take part in US-led military exercises around Hawaii next month.
The biennial Rim of the Pacific Exercise, or RIMPAC, is scheduled to take place from August 17 to 31.
Twenty years have passed since Mitsubishi first launched the Lancer Evolution in the UK. Five of the nameplate’s ten generations were sold officially in the UK between the year 2000 and 2015, marking a total of 5,728 units.
Health authorities in Japan have confirmed the first death from the coronavirus in the country's northeastern Tohoku region.
The Miyagi prefectural government said on Saturday the deceased had received treatment after testing positive for the virus.
This week, Toyota celebrated selling more than 15 million hybrids worldwide since 1997, 5 million of them in the past three years. It really began in 1993, when Toyota decided to develop a car that would be kinder on the environment. The car those engineers created, codenamed 890T, debuted at the 1995 Tokyo Motor Show, an event bearing the theme, "Dream the Dream, a Car with That Feel." That car was called the Prius. Who could have known the homely yellow wonder, looking like it had been pulled straight from a Japanese anime of the time, would reshape the automotive industry. The Wikipedia entry for the 1995 show doesn't mention the Prius, although it does mention the Honda S2000 concept and the Subaru Streega concept, which became the Forester. The New York Times wrote, "The concept cars shown this year will probably not make Detroit quake with fear. But they show some flair nonetheless," one of two sentences covering the Prius stating simply, "Toyota is showing a sedan of the future called Prius that should be able to get 70 miles per gallon."
The 2021 model year upgrades received by the Toyota GR Supra in North America and Europe will soon find their way to Japan too, headlined by two new special edition models.
Police in Fukuoka Prefecture, western Japan, say a man armed with a knife holed up inside a restaurant in Fukuoka City on Tuesday morning and is holding two girls hostage.
They say the girls are aged three and six and are the children of the restaurant's owner. They also say the hostage-taker is a former employee of the store.
Honda's electric car range has been pretty paltry in the United States so far. Its only full electric is the short-range Honda Clarity EV, which is on its way out, and the adorable Honda E doesn't look like it's coming here anytime soon (no matter how much we want it to). But the company is planning on changing that. In a joint press release, it announced with General Motors that it has two new EVs coming that will be based on GM's electric car technology.
The two cars will use the new global EV platform from General Motors and the company's new Ultium batteries. The platform will be used in a wide array of GM vehicles from Chevy to Cadillac. The Ultium batteries are unique pouch-style batteries that allow for lots of packaging flexibility, rapid charging, and will be offered in packs from 50 to 200 kWh. All of this technology will underpin the new Hondas. In fact, these new Hondas will even have OnStar and the hands-free SuperCruise advanced driver assist system. They'll be built in GM factories in North America, too.