NEC Announces Business Structure Reform for Achieving the Mid-term Management Plan 2025

TOKYO, Jan 31, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced business structure reforms for further accelerating and strengthening the execution of business strategies in support of achieving the Mid-term Management Plan 2025. The implementation of reform measures centered on “organizational simplification,” “flattening of layers (hierarchies),” “flexibility of organizational design” […]

Eisai: Lenvima (Lenvatinib) in Combination with Keytruda (Pembrolizumab) Approved in Taiwan for the First-Line Treatment of Patients with Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma

TOKYO, Jan 31, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Eisai Co., Ltd. announced today that LENVIMA (generic name: lenvatinib mesylate), the multiple receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor discovered by Eisai, in combination with Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, N.J., U.S.A.’s KEYTRUDA (generic name: pembrolizumab) has been approved in Taiwan for the first-line treatment of patients […]

Honda Releases Production, Sales and Export Results for December 2021

TOKYO, Jan 28, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today announced a summary of automobile production, Japan domestic sales, and export results for the month of December 2021. World Production Calendar Year of 2021– Production in Japan experienced a year-on-year decrease for the third consecutive year.– Production in regions outside […]

Mazda Production and Sales Results for December 2021 and for January through December 2021

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Jan 28, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Mazda Motor Corporation’s production and sales results for December 2021 and for January through December 2021 are summarized below. I. Production 1. Domestic Production (1) December 2021Mazda’s domestic production volume in December 2021 decreased 0.5% year on year due to decreased production of passenger […]

Fujitsu Establishes AI Ethics and Governance Office to Ensure the Safe and Secure Deployment of AI and Leading-edge Technologies in Society

TOKYO, Jan 28, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Fujitsu Limited today announced the decision to establish a new organization to strengthen its governance of AI ethics. Building and maintaining trust remains central to all of Fujitsu’s business activities, forming the basis of its Purpose–“to make the world more sustainable by building trust in […]

Toyota Announces Sales, Production, and Export Results for 2021 (January – December)

Toyota City, Japan, Jan 28, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces its sales, production, and export results for December 2021 as well as the cumulative total from January to December 2021, including those for subsidiaries Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. and Hino Motors, Ltd. Highlights: – In 2021 (January to […]

Eisai Announces Results and Continued Support of Initiatives for Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases

TOKYO, Jan 28, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Eisai Co., Ltd. announced today that its CEO Haruo Naito participated in the online event entitled “100% COMMITTED to End NTDs” celebrating the 10th anniversary of the London Declaration, an international public-private partnership to eliminate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), on January 27, 2022. CEO Naito […]

NEC Acquires Mobile Network Innovator Blue Danube Systems, Inc. to Enhance its 5G Product Portfolio and Customer Support Capability

TOKYO, Jan 28, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Blue Danube Systems, Inc., a U.S.-based provider of CBRS/4G/5G RAN products and AI/ML-based software solutions that help mobile operators address the challenge of 5G network buildouts and spectrum […]

Hitachi Energy Achieves 100% Fossil-free Electricity in Own Operations

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND, Jan 28, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Hitachi Energy today announced that it has achieved the first-step target set out in its Sustainability 2030(1) plan – the use of 100% fossil-free electricity in its own operations(2). The company is driving towards being carbon-neutral in its own operations by 2030(3), in line […]

Renault, Nissan & Mitsubishi Motors Announce Common Roadmap Alliance 2030: Best of 3 Worlds for a New Future

PARIS & TOKYO, Jan 28, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Renault Group, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, the members of one of the world’s leading automotive alliances, today announced common projects and actions to accelerate and to shape their shared future towards 2030, focusing on the mobility value chain. Highlights:– […]

Hitachi to Establish Hitachi Automation to Reinforce Robotic SI Business in Japan and ASEAN Countries

TOKYO, Jan 27, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501, “Hitachi”) and Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd. (“Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems”) today announced that they have been accelerating the global development of the line building business leveraging industrial robots (“the robotic SI(1) business”) and will establish Hitachi Automation, Ltd. (“Hitachi […]

Production of New Mazda CX-50 Crossover SUV for North American Market Starts at New U.S. Plant

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Jan 27, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Mazda Motor Corporation began production of its brand-new Mazda CX-50 crossover SUV, targeted at the North American market, from January 18 at Mazda Toyota Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc., a new plant jointly constructed with Toyota Motor Corporation in Huntsville, Alabama. The CX-50 is Mazda’s first […]

NEC Develops Autonomous Mobile Robot Control Technology that Doubles Efficiency While Maintaining Safety

TOKYO, Jan 27, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced the development of a control technology that doubles the efficiency of autonomous mobile robots (AMR) in warehouses while maintaining a high level of safety. NEC plans to put this technology into practical use by March 2024 and to have […]

Toyota Announces Adjustments to Domestic Production in January and in February, as of January 26

Toyota City, Japan, Jan 26, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Due to the shortage of parts supply caused by the spread of COVID-19 at our supplier in Japan, on January 21 we announced additional suspensions of domestic plant production for completed vehicles (Adjustments to Domestic Production in January) and also our revised production […]

Toyota Announces Adjustments to Domestic Production in January and in February, as of January 25

Toyota City, Japan, Jan 25, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Due to the shortage of parts supply caused by the spread of COVID-19 at our supplier in Japan, on January 21 we announced additional suspensions of domestic plant production for completed vehicles (Adjustments to Domestic Production in January) and also our revised production […]

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing: Strong Debut for the GR YARIS Rally1 with Second Place for Ogier

Toyota City, Japan, Jan 24, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team has completed a strong debut event for the new GR YARIS Rally1 with Sebastien Ogier claiming second overall and Kalle Rovanpera finishing fourth at Rallye Monte-Carlo. Ogier had been on course to claim a record-extending ninth […]

Mitsubishi Power Europe and Stockholm Exergi partner to deliver clean power and heat to the city of Stockholm

Duisburg, Jan 21, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Mitsubishi Power Europe has signed a contract with Stockholm Exergi, the largest local district heating, cooling and electricity provider, to modernise the combined heat and power (CHP) plant – Kraftvarmeverk 1 (KVV1) at Vartaverket, Stockholm. Although the plant was originally built in 1976 for fossil […]

Hitachi Rail Awarded Contract to Operate and Maintain Princess Noura Bint Abdul Rahman University Autonomous System in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Jan 20, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Hitachi Rail announced today that it has signed a 72.5 million EUR contract with Princess Noura Bint Abdul Rahman University to operate and maintain the autonomous metro system in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the next three years. Autonomous metro system in Riyadh, Saudi […]