TOKYO, Oct 30, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today announced a summary of automobile production, Japan domestic sales, and export results for for the first half of the current fiscal year (April 2020-March 2021) and the month of September 2020. World Production The First Half of Current Fiscal Year – Production […]
TOKYO, Oct 30, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced that it is hosting the NEC Visionary Week, which will be conducted entirely online, from November 12 to December 4, 2020. Themed “Co-creation for tomorrow, designing the future,” this NEC flagship event will feature more than 80 conferences and programs, while […]
KAWASAKI, Japan, Oct 29, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of a technology to make AI models more robust against deception attacks. The technology protects against attempts to use forged attack data to trick AI models into making a deliberate misjudgment when AI is used for sequential data consisting […]
Duisburg/ Wolfsburg, Oct 29, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Mitsubishi Power has recently received an order to supply the first Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) in Europe. The highly efficient hybrid system will be put into operation at the Gas- und Warme-Institut Essen e.V. (GWI) in Essen by March 2022. Among other things, flexible operation […]
TOKYO, Oct 29, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Mazda Motor Corporation’s production and sales results for September 2020 and for April through September 2020 are summarized below. I. Production 1. Domestic Production (1) September 2020 Mazda’s domestic production volume in September 2020 decreased 1.7% year on year due to decreased production of passenger and commercial […]
Toyota City, Japan, Oct 29, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Even in the face of the COVID-19 crisis, which broke out early this year, Toyota has maintained corporate activities by implementing comprehensive measures to prevent infection and working in close cooperation with business partners including suppliers and dealers. In addition to these measures, Toyota has […]
TOKYO, Oct 29, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – DENSO, a leading mobility supplier whose 2021 fiscal begins April 1, 2020, and ends March 31, 2021, today announced its global financial results for the first half of its fiscal year, ending September 30: – Consolidated revenue totaled 2,074.7 billion yen (US$19.6 billion), a 20.8 percent decrease […]
TOKYO, Oct 29, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – MITSUBISHI MOTORS CORPORATION (MMC) has started production of its crossover MPV XPANDER in Malaysia. This is the third country where MMC produces the vehicle following Indonesia and Vietnam. The XPANDER is produced at Hicom Automotive Manufacturers (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., a vehicle assembly contractor in Malaysia, and will […]
TOKYO, Oct 28, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) and Air Water Inc. (Air Water) have jointly developed a compact LNG filling facility (Facility)(1) that can be used in space-limited logistics facilities. The equipment will be used to fuel heavy LNG-powered trucks. A compact LNG Filling Station and Heavy LNG Truck This is […]
TOKYO, Oct 28, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Eisai Co., Ltd. announced today that the company will conduct a total of 7 presentations, including the latest data of the investigational anti-amyloid beta (Abeta) protofibril antibody lecanemab (Development Code: BAN2401), at the 13th Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease (CTAD) conference to be held virtually from November […]
TOKYO, Oct 28, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Eisai Co., Ltd. and JD Health announced today that Eisai’s Chinese subsidiary Eisai China Inc. and JD Health have established a joint venture company, Jingyi Weixiang (Shanghai) Health Industry Development Limited Company, to build a Health Service Platform for the elderly in China. In China, due to […]
TOKYO, Oct 27, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Showa Denko (SDK; TSE:4004) decided at its Board of Directors’ meeting today to split its business in optical semiconductors and rare earth alloys through an absorption-type company split effective January 1, 2021 (hereinafter “the Company Split”). Showa Denko Photonics Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of SDK, will […]
TOKYO, Oct 27, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501) announced today that it is undertaking efforts with a view toward adopting new workstyles under the “New Normal,” in which a use of “Working from Home” will be the standard, starting from April 2021. Initiatives will include process innovations and office innovations, such as […]
TOKYO, Oct 27, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Seven Japanese enterprises are pleased to announce that they have agreed to jointly invest in TradeWaltz Inc. (TradeWaltz), the company that manages the trade data sharing platform that operated by the same name. Partaking in the investment are NTT DATA Corporation (NTT DATA), Mitsubishi Corporation (MC), Toyota […]
TOKYO, Oct 27, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has opened Yokohama Hardtech Hub (YHH) in the Honmoku area of Yokohama (Kanagawa Prefecture) as a space for venture firms, manufacturing companies, local government bodies, educational institutions, and other organizations to come together for co-creation and development. It is intended as a […]
TOKYO, Oct 27, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501) and its digital infrastructure and solutions subsidiary Hitachi Vantara today announced that Hitachi was named a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Industrial IoT Platforms based on Gartner Inc.’s evaluation of the company and its Lumada IoT software. Hitachi also received […]
TOKYO, Oct 26, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Eisai Co., Ltd. and Cogstate, Ltd. announced today that the companies have entered into a collaboration whereby Eisai has secured the global development rights and exclusive commercialization rights of all cognitive function tests developed by Cogstate, including the “Cogstate Brief BatteryTM” (CBB) for use in healthcare and […]
TOKYO, Oct 26, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) and Realeyes have jointly developed a new emotion analysis service that combines NEC’s biometric identification and video analytics technologies with Realeyes’ emotion analysis technology. This is part of a collaboration announced in July 2020, and NEC will launch this service in January […]
TOKYO, Oct 23, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) and Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) announced today that they have teamed up to design a 5G Network Massive MIMO Antenna Radio Unit for Rakuten Mobile. The radio unit adopts ADI’s fourth-generation wideband RF transceiver solution to achieve high precision Massive MIMO and possesses […]
YOKOHAMA, Japan, Oct 22, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Mitsubishi Power, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, has received an order for two sets of one of the world’s largest flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems for the Nikola Tesla B coal-fired power plant in Serbia. This is the second order from Serbia for […]
TOKYO, Oct 22, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – MHI Thermal Systems, Ltd., a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, has completed construction of a new development and testing facility for commercial-use air conditioning & refrigeration systems at its Biwajima Works (Kiyosu City, Aichi Prefecture), the core research and development facility among centers throughout the […]