News on Japan

New safety risks hit Toyota, Mazda vehicles

2010-10-22T11:08:39Z

Further trouble for Japan's auto industry emerged Thursday as embattled Toyota suspended production and sales of its Lexus GX 460 sport utility vehicle and Mazda announced a recall of 90,000 cars.

Toyota, the world's biggest automaker, said it would suspend production and worldwide sal...

Mazda to recall nearly 90,000 compact cars

2010-10-22T11:08:37Z

Japan's Mazda Motor will recall nearly 90,000 passenger cars domestically and in China due to an oil hose defect, the company said Thursday.

The automaker, which is part owned by US giant Ford, will start recalling 35,181 units in Japan and some 54,000 in China of the Mazda 3, ...

Nissan recalls nearly 540,000 vehicles worldwide

2010-10-22T11:00:24Z

Japan's Nissan Motor said Wednesday it would recall nearly 540,000 vehicles worldwide, most of them in the United States, due to brake pedal defects and faulty fuel gauges.

Nissan -- Japan's third-largest carmaker, and partnered with France's Renault -- said it plans ...

Nissan NA to export engines to Japan

2010-04-16T10:16:12Z

Nissan NA plans to export engines from US to Japan for first time to install in Infiniti SUVs

Nissan is planning to export engines from the United States to Japan for the first time.

Nissan executives told Nashville radio station WPLN that the plant at Decherd is exporting engines for a luxury SUV, the

Infiniti QX56, Nissan Armada To Go Separate Ways

2010-10-26T14:11:33Z

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Japan New Year

2010-12-31T05:01:02Z

Women chat as they offer this year's last prayers at a temple in China town in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Japan, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)

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Japan World Markets

2010-12-30T01:01:25Z

Traders on the Tokyo Stock Exchange react during the afternoon trading in Tokyo at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Most Asian stock markets traded in narrow ranges Thursday as fewer investors participated in the market ahead of the New Year holiday while Japan's Japan joining a United States-backed trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, free trade agreement in Yokohama near Tokyo as the Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average climbed 1.5 percent to 10,370.53 after the Bank of Japan kept monetary policy unchanged at the current super loose set...

Japan Stabbings

2010-12-17T03:01:23Z

A teacher of Edogawagakuen Toride High school, left, escort for their students to a station in Toride, Ibaraki prefecture, north of Tokyo, after their classes were canceled following a knife attack at the station Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. An unemployed Japanese man with a knife attacked students and other passengers waiting on two public buses outside the station Friday in a rampage that...