TOKYO, Feb 22, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – Eisai Co., Ltd. announced today that it has received orphan drug designation for a prospective indication for unresectable biliary tract cancer with FGFR2 gene fusion by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan (MHLW) for its in-house discovered fibroblast growth factor (FGF) receptor (FGFR1, FGFR2, FGFR3) […]
TOKYO, Feb 22, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – Eisai Co., Ltd. announced today that it has received the 18th Corporate Philanthropy Award (FY 2020) of the Japan Philanthropic Association. The presentation ceremony was held on February 19, 2021 (Friday) at the GakushiKaikan (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo). Award ceremony (left: Ms. Yoko Takahashi, director, the Japan Philanthropic Association, […]
TOKYO, Feb 22, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) and Northgate Public Services (NPS) today announced a name change that means from July 2021, NPS will become NEC Software Solutions UK. The new name brings NPS under the global NEC brand, strengthening the company’s position as a market leader in the development […]
TOKYO, Feb 19, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – After making a near-perfect start to the 2021 season on Rallye Monte-Carlo last month, the TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team will target another strong result on Arctic Rally Finland on 26-28 February. Making its debut in the FIA World Rally Championship, the event takes the place […]
TOKYO, Feb 19, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced that at a meeting of the company’s Board of Directors held today, Toshihiro Mibe, currently the company’s Senior Managing Director, was named the next President and Representative Director, effective April 1, 2021. Mibe will succeed Takahiro Hachigo, the current President and Representative […]
TOKYO, Feb 19, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – MITSUBISHI MOTORS CORPORATION (MMC) started operation of a 5-megawatt (MW(1)) capacity rooftop solar power system at the Laemchabang Factory of Mitsubishi Motors (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (MMTh), a production and sales company in Thailand. Combined this solar power system with the 2-MW capacity system, which is scheduled to […]
TOKYO, Feb 18, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – MITSUBISHI MOTORS CORPORATION (MMC) announced that the OUTLANDER PHEV has closed out 2020 as Europe’s best-selling plug-in hybrid SUV. A total of 26,673 units were sold across Europe in 2020, and the OUTLANDER PHEV became the second best-selling plug-in hybrid across all segments(1). The OUTLANDER PHEV is […]
TOKYO, Feb 18, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. has announced the development of a technology that automatically detects different work elements–for instance, “removing a part,” “tightening a screw,” or “installing a cover” – from video data consisting of a series of tasks from manufacturing lines and other places of manual work. Fig.1: […]
UK, Feb 17, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – New edition of the FMC-Film Music Contest 2021 has prepared the largest and the most exclusive offer of competition categories so far. In addition to the already traditional popular music categories, it will also open brand new and there will be 7 of them together. FMC 2021 […]
TOKYO, Feb 17, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – Showa Denko (SDK; TSE:4004) today announced its 2020 Consolidated Financial Results. – 2020 Consolidated Financial Statements and summaryhttps://www.sdk.co.jp/assets/files/english/ir/library/fss2020-4q.pdf About Showa Denko K.K. Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; TSE: 4004, ADR: SHWDY) is a major manufacturer of chemical products serving heavy industry to computers and electronics. Our Petrochemicals segment […]
TOKYO, Feb 17, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – MITSUBISHI MOTORS CORPORATION (MMC) today revealed the all-new OUTLANDER, featuring a new design direction, premium quality, rugged performance and innovative technology. The flagship SUV is reimagined and reinvented in every way and gears up for sale in North America (the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico) in […]
TOKYO, Feb 17, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – MITSUBISHI MOTORS CORPORATION (MMC) continues to expand its product portfolio by launching the refreshed PAJERO SPORT1 mid-size SUV in Indonesia. Inheriting the PAJERO series’ off-road capability, reliability and durability, the PAJERO SPORT fuses elegance and comfort. The latest model is designed with a more refined, powerful exterior […]
TOKYO, Feb 16, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – Turboden S.p.A., a Group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) based in Lombardy, Italy, has received an order for two sets of 14-megawatt (MW) binary cycle power generation equipment to be installed in a gas compression system (GCS) that drives the gas turbines supporting compression of […]
TOKYO, Feb 15, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – Eisai Co., Ltd. and Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, N.J., U.S.A. (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada) today announced the first presentation of new investigational data from the pivotal Phase 3 CLEAR study (Study 307/KEYNOTE-581) in an oral presentation session (Abstract #269) at the […]
Toyota City, Japan, Feb 12, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – TOYOTA GAZOO Racing (TGR) focuses on motorsports and engages in activities to offer ever-better cars to our customers, including the development, production and establishment of sales projects for products created from the racing environment. The year 2020 was difficult for TGR as numerous motorsports events […]
TOKYO, Feb 12, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced that the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI) put an NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA supercomputer into service. The newly deployed HPC solution is used for high-resolution regional climate modelling. The SX-Aurora TSUBASA supercomputer was delivered by NEC Deutschland GmbH in September 2020 and operational […]
TOKYO, Feb 10, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) today announced that it has invested in C-Zero, a hard tech startup located in Santa Barbara, Calif., to accelerate the first commercial-scale deployment of C-Zero’s drop-in decarbonization technology, which will allow industrial natural gas consumers to avoid producing CO2 in applications like […]
TOKYO, Feb 10, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems Ltd. (MHI Thermal Systems) a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) Group, has confirmed its latest technology has the ability to remove and inactivate the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) by enzyme-urea formulation processing technology or irradiation by UV-C LED (ultraviolet-C light-emitting diode). […]
Tokyo, Japan and Innsbruck, Austria, Feb 10, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) and ParityQC today announced that they have started collaborating in the field of quantum annealing, a method of quantum computing. NEC will be the first company worldwide(1) implementing the ParityQC architecture for quantum annealing devices. The collaboration entails NEC […]
TOKYO, Feb 9, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – MITSUBISHI MOTORS CORPORATION (MMC) rolled its first produced all-new OUTLANDER off the assembly line at Okazaki Plant in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The company began its shipment to North America on February 8, and will make its global debut on February 17. With more than four years of […]