YOKOHAMA, Japan, Nov 27, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Mitsubishi Power, Ltd., a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, has concluded an agreement with Aubert & Duval, a leading European manufacturer of special alloys and metal powders, on technology licensing related to the specific composition and manufacturing of metal powders used as materials for […]

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Nov 27, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Mazda Motor Corporation’s production and sales results for October 2020 are summarized below. I. Production 1. Domestic ProductionMazda’s domestic production volume in October 2020 increased 2.8% year on year due to increased production of passenger vehicles. [Domestic production of key models in October 2020]CX-5: 40,806 units […]

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Nov 27, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Alliance (Thailand) Co. Ltd. (AAT), a joint venture production facility of Mazda Motor Corporation and Ford Motor Company in Thailand, this month celebrates the 25th anniversary since its establishment. Established in November 1995, AAT has utilized combined strength and synergy effect of Mazda and Ford. The […]

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Nov 27, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Mazda Motor Corporation’s crossover SUV, Mazda CX-30, has been named Thailand Car of the Year 2020 by the Thai Automotive Journalists Association. This is the third time in history and the second year running that a Mazda vehicle takes the award after the Mazda3 and CX-3 […]

TOKYO, Nov 27, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of technology to accelerate virtual routers, which play a major role in the functionality of networks in virtual environments. Figure 1: High Speed Packet Addressing Control Technology Figure 2: Hybrid Memory Management Technology Server virtualization, which concentrates multiple applications and […]

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Nov 26, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Mazda Motor Corporation has been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices’ Asia Pacific Index for the fourth year running. The Dow Jones Sustainability Indices are among the longest-running1 ESG investment indices2 in the world. Corporations are assessed annually in the areas of environmental initiatives, social […]

TOKYO, Nov 26, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has agreed to make a capital investment in H2U Investments, the holding entity of the H2U Group. The H2U Group includes The Hydrogen Utility (H2U), the leading Australian developer of green hydrogen and green ammonia projects using power derived from renewable energy […]

Toyota City, Japan, Nov 25, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Toyota Motor Corporation announces the release of “Shodoku Taishi,” a foot-operated sanitizer stand that will be available through Toyota dealers nationwide, starting December 1. Amidst the spread of COVID-19, Toyota has leveraged its on-site monozukuri (manufacturing) capabilities and the Toyota Production System (TPS), which support […]

TOKYO, Nov 25, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Fujitsu today announced the commercial debut of its “FUJITSU Healthcare Solution Online Healthcare Solution” in the Japanese market, offering medical providers a powerful new tool to support COVID-19 countermeasures in medical frontlines and promote the digital transformation of doctors’ work in hospitals and other medical institutions. The […]

TOKYO, Nov 24, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – A Japanese research group consisting of the National Institute for Environmental Studies, RIKEN, Fujitsu Limited, Metro, Inc., and the University of Tokyo has implemented an unprecedented, large-scale coupled calculation of global weather simulation and data assimilation, for a 3.5 km horizontal mesh with 1024 ensembles with the […]

TOKYO, Nov 24, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) is pleased to announce that its consortium with Orascom Construction (Orascom) etc. has signed a contract with the Egyptian government to deliver the Railway Systems, Track and Depot Works Package (CP411) for Phase 1 of Cairo Metro Line 4. About the Project The roughly […]

MHIENG has already made several significant contributions to carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery technology. Jointly with Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc., MHIENG has developed and improved the proprietary Kansai Mitsubishi Carbon Dioxide Recovery Process (KM CDR Process) in combination with a highly efficient amine-based solvent. Recovery systems utilizing this process are currently operating at 13 plants […]

TOKYO, Nov 20, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced the global launch of a PCIe-based Vector Engine card (Vector Engine) to tap into the growing demand for High Performance Computing (HPC) from Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The shipment of the Vector Engine will start from January 2021. PCIe-based Vector […]

TOKYO, Nov 19, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Honda Motor Co., Ltd. will begin sales of the all-new N-ONE mini-vehicle on November 20, 2020, at dealerships across Japan. Based on the underlying concept of the Honda N Series, which is to offer “enjoyable lives with N*,” the development team for the all-new N-ONE focused on […]

TOKYO, Nov 19, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Fujitsu, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and RIKEN today announced a performance milestone in supercomputing, achieving the highest performance and claiming the ranking positions on the MLPerf HPC benchmark(1). The MLPerf HPC benchmark measures large-scale machine learning processing on a level requiring […]

TOKYO, Nov 19, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced the establishment of its Global Open RAN Center of Excellence (CoE) in the U.K. to accelerate the global adoption of Open RAN and to further strengthen its structure for accelerating the global deployment of 5G. This new CoE is responsible for […]

TOKYO, Nov 19, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Fujitsu today announced that it has been chosen for inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World), the world’s leading Socially Responsible Investment (SRI)(1) index. This is the 21st time for Fujitsu to have been included in this index since its creation in 1999. DJSI […]

TOKYO, Nov 18, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Eisai Co., Ltd. announced today that it has been selected for a membership in the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index (DJSI Asia Pacific), the Asia Pacific version of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), which are a family of premier global indices for socially responsible investment […]

TOKYO, Nov 18, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Gilead Sciences K.K. and Eisai Co., Ltd. today announced that Jyseleca (filgotinib maleate 200 mg and 100 mg tablets), a new once-daily, oral, JAK (Janus kinase) inhibitor that preferentially inhibits JAK1, will be launched in Japan on November 18 for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), with […]

TOKYO, Nov 18, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Honda’s first battery-electric vehicle for Europe, the Honda e, has been named ‘German Car of the Year 2021’ in the country’s prestigious annual Car of the Year Awards, becoming the first vehicle from a Japanese brand to do so. The car also won in the “New Energy” […]