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Archive for the ‘Japanese Products’ Category

November 18th, 2008

Japanese Scientist Use Cell from Dead Body to Clone Embryo of Endangered Rabbit

If a Team of Japanese Scientists can bring ‘Jurassic Park’ one big step closer to reality then it’s no surprise perhaps that another group of Japanese scientists have cloned the embryo of an endangered rabbit.
Michael Crichton wants to know, where were these guys years ago, say during the Jurassic period. We could have had some […]

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November 7th, 2007

Russia Next to Get Honda Acura Brand

Honda Motor Co will launch its Acura Brand of luxury cars in Russia next year
Russia's wealthy class in the big cities is the target market.
Behind China and India, Russia is one of the fastest growing markets in the world.
And, Honda wants to increase sales there 6-fold from its 2006 figure to 100,000 vehicles by […]

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November 22nd, 2006

Toyota Camry - Motor Trend’s 2007 Car of the Year

Toyota’s Camry is Motor Trend’s 2007 Car of the year. It is also the hottest selling car in America.
The car has variations - a hybrid among one of them, and broad appeal.
Editor-in-chief of Motor Trend say the Camry has something for nearly everyone - performance, efficiency, roominess. it is the car every rival automaker wishes […]

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November 13th, 2006

Jackie Chan and Jet Li Rank as Most Recognizable “Japanese” Person to a Group of Americans

A group of workers in America was asked to rank the most recognizable Japanese person they know.
Not a tough problem, generally speaking, unless you are American.
Jackie Chan and Jet Li, will be happy to know, or not, that they are ranked #12 and # 22, respectively, on the list of most recognized Japanese people.
If you […]

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November 11th, 2006

China’s “One Dog” Policy

China announced that there are about 400 million less people in China now as a result of the ‘one child’ policy initiated in the 1970s.
For good or for bad, that’s a whole nation or two or three or four of less people than there might have been.
China likes the idea so much they have created […]

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August 25th, 2006

Australia Picks Up After the US in Beef Sales in Japan

The US used to sell about $1.4 billion worth of beef to Japan. No more.
Costco Japan is the only customer right now. And though Costco sales are brisk, they don’t sell a billion dollars worth.
The big supermarkets won’t sell US beef and Australia is happy to take up the slack.
The price, around $12/lb […]

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June 6th, 2006

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.
The vehicle costs $1.5 million and the fuel is 80 cents a mile. Let’s see, that’s about a $1000 for a fill-up.
The vehicle […]

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June 5th, 2006

Toyota Does Right When They Do Wrong - Prius Recall

Toyota is planning to voluntarily recall about 2/3 of the Prius cars they have made.
Someone in Japan learned that when you turn the steeling wheel and drive real slow into a curb, it can break something in the steering mechanism. Trust me, you drive very slowly in Japan a lot, with the steering wheel turned all […]

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May 28th, 2006

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 is tired of the word.
Well, they are about to grow a whole lot more tired of it.
GM is the number one foreign car maker in China with 11% […]

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May 26th, 2006

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 couldn’t get along with any other PCs. I learned Ichitaro and Lotus BEFORE I knew what Windows […]

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