Honda has built and ultraefficient vehicle that goes 1300 miles between fill ups. It carries 6-8 passengers – 8 Japanese and 6, sometimes 5 or 4 Americans.
Of course, there is always a catch.
Th…
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Honda Makes an SUV that goes 1300 Miles without refueling
Toyota Overtakes GM in China
Toyota will overtake GM as the number one car maker in the world sometime this year.
Toyota is building factories; GM is closing them down….Toyota…Toyota…Toyota… I am sure GM i…
NEC and Microsoft Prove We Can All Just Get Along
I learned how to use a computer in Japanese. I knew the tool bar titles in Japanese BEFORE I learned them in English.
My first PC was made by www.nec.com. And what I remember most vividly is that it c…
Japan Heads to Hawaii-Ken
Ken (pronounced like the boy’s name) is Japanese for prefecture which is roughly equivalant to the US word for state. When I lived in Japan, I lived in Niigata-ken, or Niigata Prefecture.
Japane…
Honda Decides on the US Midwest
Honda Motors has decided to build a new factory in the heartland of the US.
There is already one such factory right up the street from where I grew up, Cincinnati, OH.
They plan to produce a smal…
Google Teams Up with KDDI in Japan
Google has found a new way to do business in Japan.
Google will team up with Japan’s International Telephone Co. KDDI to offer Internet search services in Japan via mobile phone starting in abo…
Outsourcing – Made in India, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Taiwan….
I saw a cartoon today –
A man and a woman were walking out of a mall.
The man was carrying four boxes – a plasma TV marked "Made in Taiwan….a DVD player marked "Made in Ko…
Paperback Nintendo
Nintendo CEO, Satoru Iwata,says TETRIS Tetris wouldn’t make it…IF…it were pitched to today’s game publishers.
He says that the video-game industry has become too…
