On March 15th, 2010, 158 Japanese companies established the CHAdeMO convention to consolidate the specification of rapid charger which is inevitable for the prevalence of EV. Administrative agents are TOYOTA, NISSAN, Tokyo Electric Power Company, Mitsubishi Motors and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. The term of “CHAdeMO” is the coined word, [...]

 The stock of thin-screen televisions of dealers and makers within Japan will run out completely around the end of March in 2011. Many orders of liquid crystal panel are pouring in. On April 17th, 2010, SHARP announced to increase the production capacity of large-size liquid crystal panel in its Sakai [...]

 There are many high-mileage cars, i.e. HV, EV, kei car (mini-vehicle) and so on, in Japan. The number of them is increasing drastically. An automobile, which is major customer of gasoline, doesn’t and will not consume gasoline so much. Everybody can imagine easily it must impact on the oil industry [...]

 Sony announced to release 3D Televisions in order of precedence from June 10th, 2010. Sony has an intention to increase the ratio of 3D liquid crystal TV up to 40% by making use of contents held by its group companies, i.e. games, movies and so on, until 2012 fiscal year. [...]

 On March 8th, 2010, Domino’s Pizza, the pizza chain, disclosed “Domino’s Application” for iPhone/iPod touch. This application has a function which makes use of location-based services provided by GPS and points the place where a client is. By making use of this application, Domino’s Pizza can deliver a pizza to [...]

 It is 30 years since the company sold plastic models of Gundam series. On March 6th, 2010, BANDAI released “Mega-sized Gundam” in commemoration of the 30th anniversary. The price is Japanese Yen 8,190 (incl. VAT). “Mega-sized Gundam” is re-created the initial model of Gundam series of “RX-78-2″. It is the [...]

One March 2nd, 2010, “Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.” announced to sell two types of “Eneloop Bike Series”, electric motor assisted bicycle, from April 1st, 2010. Their recommended retail prices are Japanese Yen 157,290 each. The initial production number is 1,000.
 They have two new functions, i.e. “Eco Charging Function” and “Power [...]

 On March 2nd, 2010, “Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.” announced that to tie up with “Konarka Technologies, Inc.”, Massachusetts, USA, in order to develop and produce the organic thin-film solar battery, which is the next generation of solar battery. The company invests US$ 20 million to Konarka and owns 7.5% of [...]

 On March 2nd, 2010, Kyocera Corporation announced to increase the production amount of solar battery as of the March in 2013 to one million kilowatts, which is 2.5 times of that in 2009 fiscal year. The company has increased the production capacity gradually by around 0.1 million kilowatts at each [...]

 ”KING JIM CO., LTD.” releases a portable e-money viewer of “RELET”, which can confirm its balance, i.e. Edy, Suica, nanaco and WAON, from April 1st, 2010. The company has a plan to sell 25,000 sets an initial year. The number of e-money issued is over than 100 million. A lot [...]