Japan to subsidize energy-efficient plants

According to the article “Japan to subsidize energy-efficient plants” (August 19, 2010) by Leika Kihara, published on www.reuters.com. Japan’s government plans to support the domestic plants to produce clean energy and economical goods such as Lithium battery cells for electric vehicles. Another purpose of this subsidize is to straighten out the dead line of subsidy cripple at householder to acquire the energy-efficient consumer.

It will also broaden a housing loan program, which was planned to be end by this year. This will be lead to the decrease in fixed rate loans on energy efficient and quake resistant homes for the next 35 years.

In my opinion, it is very courageous for Japan to start dealing with the global warming issues seriously. Many countries are happier seeing their economic growth high while pollution is getting worse. Japan has always been the first to tackle the issue and now seeing opportunity in the crisis it has made green energy its top priority products.

N Korea calls for Japanese apology, reparations for colonial rule

North Korea has blamed Tokyo for being unjust by offering only South Korea for its annexation of the Korean Peninsula a century ago. North Korea though has no diplomatic relations with Japan for a long time, mainly over the incidents that has happened late 1970s and early 1980s as part of North Korea’s espionage.

North Korea has expressed anger on the Japanese for the act that happened during 1910-1945 that the Japanese forced North Koreans to become labors and sex slaves while occupying the peninsula. Japan “should make immediate apology and reparation for the hideous crimes committed against the Korean people,” the North’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the country’s official Korean Central News Agency.

It has pressured Japan to “immediately roll back its hostile policy” towards North Korea. The statement by North Korea came about a week after Naoto Kan, Japanese prime minster, has apologized for the damages suffered by his country from the occupation and North Korea had expressed “deep remorse.” The statement by North Korea stated that Japan should repent and apologize to “all victims for the past without any precondition and discrimination.”

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Gov't to set up special team for job creation for young people

Japan has suffered from a terrible unemployment situation and Naoto Kan, the prime
minister of Japan, has created a special team to support a new plan of creating jobs for young people, including university graduates. The team leader will be the Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Manabu Terata who has served Naoto Kan as an aide.
This remark was made after Naoto Kan has visited employment related facilities in Kyoto in an effort to stabilize the employment situation among the young people. This team of specialist will put together from a short -term to long-term employment support plans, as “new graduates are facing difficulties in finding employment opportunities”, a government official said last Saturday.

Naoto Kan also said he will work hard to accelerate the economic stimulus measures from next work onward. ‘‘I will put together various opinions from the beginning of next week and I want to move on to a stage to compile economic measures,’’ Kan said.
The recent appreciation of the Yen because of rapid economic growth has affected Japan’s economy and Naoto Kan will start a new round of emergency steps to address these issues.

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Honda's U.S. output profit

Honda Motor Co, the first Japanese company that produce car in U.S, said the company’s success in moving production is the guard profit from the yen against the dollar. In July the percentage of the company profit in US, Canada, and Mexico was steadily increased from 82 to 89 percent. On the other hand, Toyota Motor Corp and Nissan Motor Co just made 68 percent of vehicle sold in US.

"Honda's high rate of local production in the U.S. is a clear advantage," Yoshihiro Okumura at Chiba-Gin Asset Management Co. in Tokyo said. "They will benefit even more in the U.S., this sentence provided a lot of pressure to other vehicle company.

In my opinion, Honda Company is very successful at this time because of US citizen give a good feedback about the Honda vehicle. Moreover, at present the price of yen money was sharply increased 4.4 percent against the world's 16 major currencies this year .Therefore, I think Honda will produce the new product in this year to earn high profit.




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Toyota City Low-Carbon Verification Project Begins

Toyota city and private –19sector has start the project name Toyota City Low-Carbon Society Verification Promotion Council, which has Kohei Suzuki as a parent organization and promote the new project of Toyota City. Moreover, the council of Toyota will coordinate by 4 groups which are Toyota City, Toyota Motor Corporation, Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc., and Dream Incubator Inc.

Kohei Suzuki said, this project is really focused on decreasing of the Co2 energy and aim to optimize energy that use in daily life. This project makes Toyota company earn a lot of benefit and there are many people support them to continue with this project.


In my opinion, Supported by people around the world, Toyota Motor Corporation has a great effort since it’s established in 1937 to serve society by creating great products. Now, the Company manufactures vehicles and parts at 53 production sites in 27 countries and regions around the globe and is an active member in the communities it serves.



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100% of Honda civic in Japan is going to be “Hybrid”

In Japan Honda Civic is one of the most popular car models, thus their plan is to change from the normal civic to hybrid civic. Honda will only manufacture hybrid civic starting in 2011. Moreover, Honda had planned to build a smaller car and vehicle using the clean diesel technology.

By 2013, Honda says that they will have as many as hybrid models in its domestic and international market. Not only the hybrid civic but also the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle will be introduced in the same year.

Hybrid technology appears to be one of most intriguing innovation for Honda. They start to phase out the older technologies and focus on hybrid engine. Honda hopes that an increased manufacturing of car batteries will allow their scale. If all goes well, hybrid civic would cost the same or even less than those that use the older technology.

In my opinion, global warming is one of the most danger problems we encountered. It causes many disasters, such as the higher in temperature, flooding and earthquake. Carbon dioxide is one of the factors causing the global warming. Carbon dioxide mostly produced by the vehicle, changing all of the car into hybrid engine would cause the reduction in carbon dioxide. It would reduce the carbon dioxide produced by vehicles; therefore using hybrid car would be one of the choices to save our world.




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IPad winning over elderlyMaker sees lucrative potential in largely untapped market

IPad is a good technology for senior citizens because it can help them know about our world news and the information that they never know before. Furthermore, there are a lot of elderly people give a good comment for IPad.

Hikosaburo Yasuda, 95year olds, said "he plans to buy Apple IPad just because the juvenile has it. “It important to try new things if not you will get left behind”, Yasuda said. Moreover, another reason that makes him want to buy IPad is he never had a chance to read. IPad is a good tool for the senior citizens that try to use computer."

Motoo Kitamura, 78, a former salesman, said "the IPad helps him communicate with his 2-year-old grandson, who turns it on himself to play games. Kitamura uses it to follow the Hanshin Tigers baseball team and show vacation pictures.
Now, there are many customers bought 3.72 million IPads that sell for $565 in Japan and this year’s Apple Company approximately earn 12.9 million this year. It is the biggest benefit in this year".

In my opinion, at present there are many senior citizen try to learn new thing from new technology and in the future the percentages of elderly IPad user will increase sharply during 2011-2012 .




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