Topic: Japan
Energy-saving electric cars with advanced green technology vie for attention as the Tokyo Motor Show opens Wednesday, with robots and computers becoming ever more part of the vehicles on display.Companies are showcasing concept cars with "transformable" bodies and automotive computers linked to ...
Toyota Motor said Tuesday it would unveil a new compact hybrid car at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show, boasting improved fuel efficiency amid intensifying competition to build more eco-friendly vehicles.The "Aqua", to be sold under the name "Prius C" outside Japan, offers ...
Boeing's 787 Dreamliner flew into Tokyo from Seattle Sunday for test flights as All Nippon Airways prepares to become the world's first airline to deploy the new fuel-efficient long-haul jet.The wide-bodied twin-engine plane touched down at Tokyo's Haneda Airport at 6:20 am ...
TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - As Japan heads into the sizzling summer months facing a severe power shortage after the massive March earthquake and tsunami, individual families are looking for new ways to cut down on electricity use and still stay cool.Takahiro Tsukakoshi ...
Lights went off around the world as landmark buildings and ordinary homes flipped their switches while the annual "Earth Hour" circled the planet in what was dubbed the world's largest voluntary action for the environment.In Paris a minute's silence was observed for ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Lights started going off around the world on Saturday in a show of support for renewable energy, given added poignancy by Japan's nuclear disaster, which raises doubts about nuclear power as a possible solution.Landmarks in thousands of cities, from ...
Lights will go out around the world Saturday with hundreds of millions of people set to take part in the Earth Hour climate change campaign, which this year will also mark Japan's earthquake and tsunami.From across the Pacific, to Australia, Asia, Europe, ...
Today's consumers are demanding greener choices. Coca-Cola is installing 1,500 eco-friendly machines by the end of 2011, but that is only a fraction of the 2.4 million vending machines in existence. This is a designation put out by the Environmental Protection Agency ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Smartphones and Twitter were the hottest products in Japan in 2010 and travel and leisure were back on the menu, an ad agency survey showed, as penny-pinching consumers rediscovered their fun side.Flat-screen TVs equipped for digital broadcasting placed fourth ...
Americans lead big lives. They have big stuff and need big houses to hold it all. Now a new crop of builders, architects, and homeowners are taking the movement to the extreme, building homes in Japan on parcels of land the size ...
