Archive for the ‘Japan’ Category

Honda Makes an SUV that goes 1300 Miles without refueling

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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Posted by Bill Belew on June 6th, 2006 in Japan, Japan | 5 Comments

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…

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Posted by Bill Belew on May 28th, 2006 in China, China, Japan, Japan | No Comments

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…

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Posted by Bill Belew on May 26th, 2006 in Japan, Japan | No Comments

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…

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Posted by Bill Belew on May 26th, 2006 in China, Japan, Japan | No Comments

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…

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Posted by Bill Belew on May 22nd, 2006 in Japan, Japan | 5 Comments

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…

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Posted by Bill Belew on May 22nd, 2006 in Japan, Japan | No Comments

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…

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 12th, 2006 in China, India, Japan, Japan | 4 Comments

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…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 24th, 2006 in Japan, Japan | No Comments