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The History of Diesel Engines in japan Is the History of Yanmar Interviewer., Let us focus first on Yanmar's history so we can better appreciate the present and future of [...]

DR AKIRA TONOMURA of Hitachi's Advanced Research Laboratories has made a name for himself by studying an oddity of quantum physics known as the Aharanov-Bohm effect. For a researcher in [...]

Although the Honda CR-V has been available in the U.S. market since 1997 (the first-gen appeared in Japan in 1995), and even though it is sold in 160 countries and [...]

Economy's cold, but water-borne program proves hot LAST YEAR, the Persian Gulfwar, travel safety uncertainties and a weak economy put a damper on attendance at the Water-Borne, Higher-solids and Powder [...]

GO SOUTH, PAINT technologists, if you want to hear the last - or at least latest - words on coatings formulation that is keeping the industry attuned to pressing environmental [...]

Byline: Mark Rechtin Honda's redesign of the CR-V crossover is the third of four product changeovers that will define the brand for most of this decade. The Odyssey has proven [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- A California appeals court recently rejected demands by the state's largest conduit bond issuer that one of its former attorneys and employees - who now works as [...]

IT'S BEEN ABOUT A YEAR since I last saw many of you in Chicago at the 2001 event. Since WasteExpo 2001, so much has happened to all of us that [...]

Andrew Baird, formerly of J.P. Morgan Securities Asia Ltd., has been named deputy director of research for Goldman, Sachs & Co. Keith Baum, executive director and Goldman's head of research, [...]

Japanese Nobel Prize winning scientists have been much in the news lately, and indeed feature in Look Japan in the pages directly following these. But what of the companies and [...]

The downturn in financial markets has exposed the incoherent strategies and chaotic systems of the City's securities firms. But now the City is learning to manage, writes Charles Grant THESE [...]

Nomura Securities' Global Ambitions A six-foot-high, shimmering ice sculpture of the world dominated the marble-walled banquet hall. The symbolism was not lost on the thousand guests asked last January to [...]

Andrew Baird, formerly of J.P. Morgan Securities Asia Ltd., has been named deputy director of research for Goldman, Sachs & Co. Keith Baum, executive director and Goldman's head of research, [...]

Banks have recently been plagued by the antics of rogue traders, who blow unexpectedly large holes in their balance sheets. This week it was the turn of Banque Paribas, a [...]

Supermarkets are assuming a more prominent role in video-recording sales in Japan. Supermarkets and convenience stores sell only 2.7% of videos there, but sales are increasing rapidly and supermarkets have many marketing advantages, including circulation, one-stop-shopping and a family appeal. The average price of videos sold in Japanese supermarkets is around $30, with a 30% margin and selections including children's videos, how-to tapes, imported movies and sports videos., TOKYO -- Supermarkets in Japan are just beginning to enter the sell-through video market. But suppliers and retailers already see enormous potential for the category. Suppliers, frustrated by flat sales [...]