Mazda to boost production capacity for CX-5 SUV

Mazda to boost production capacity for CX-5 SUV

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken July 3, 2012, shows Mazda Motor Corp.'s auto assembly plant in the city of Hiroshima. Mazda said the same day it will boost production capacity for its smash hit CX-5 sport utility vehicle to 240,000 vehicles a year the following March, from 160,000 units, due to robust sales at home and abroad.

Safe water for children

Safe water for children

TOKYO, Japan - Toddlers hold drinking water in plastic bottles distributed by the authorities at a daycare center in Tokyo on March 24, 2011. The Tokyo metropolitan government the same day began distributing 240,000 plastic bottles of drinking water for infants under the age of 12 months in the wake of the discovery March 22 that water at a water purification plant for tap water in Tokyo contained radioactive iodine at levels higher than allowed for infants. Radioactive materials apparently had fallen from a nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture crippled by a massive earthquake and tsunami.

Safe water for children

Safe water for children

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on March 24, 2011, at a Tokyo daycare center shows drinking water in plastic bottles distributed by the local authorities. The Tokyo metropolitan government the same day began distributing 240,000 plastic bottles of drinking water for infants under the age of 12 months in the wake of the discovery March 22 that water at a water purification plant for tap water in Tokyo contained radioactive iodine at levels higher than allowed for infants. Radioactive materials apparently had fallen from a nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture crippled by a massive earthquake and tsunami.

Safe water for children

Safe water for children

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on March 24, 2011, at a Tokyo daycare center shows drinking water in plastic bottles distributed by the local authorities. The Tokyo metropolitan government the same day began distributing 240,000 plastic bottles of drinking water for infants under the age of 12 months in the wake of the discovery March 22 that water at a water purification plant for tap water in Tokyo contained radioactive iodine at levels higher than allowed for infants. Radioactive materials apparently had fallen from a nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture crippled by a massive earthquake and tsunami.

Used car market in Beijing

Used car market in Beijing

BEIJING, China - People visit a used car market in Beijing on Dec. 19, 2010. The city government decided on Dec. 23, 2010, to limit the number of new auto registrations for 2011 to 240,000, about one third of the limit in 2010, to ease the traffic congestion in the city.

Used car market in Beijing

Used car market in Beijing

BEIJING, China - People visit a used car market in Beijing on Dec. 19, 2010. The city government decided on Dec. 23, 2010, to limit the number of new auto registrations for 2011 to 240,000, about one third of the limit in 2010, to ease the traffic congestion in the city.

Matsushita to sell world's 1st Blu-ray DVD recorder-player

Matsushita to sell world's 1st Blu-ray DVD recorder-player

TOKYO, Japan - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. will market the world's first Blu-ray DVD recorders with replay functions on Nov. 15 in Japan, the company said on Sept. 20. The DMR-BW 200 and DMR-BR 100 will have a suggested retail price of about 300,000 yen and 240,000 yen, respectively.

Suzuki to build plant in Shizuoka Pref. for 60 billion yen

Suzuki to build plant in Shizuoka Pref. for 60 billion yen

TOKYO, Japan - Suzuki Motor Corp. Chairman Osamu Suzuki and President Hiroshi Tsuda tell a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 9 that the comapny will begin building a new plant this fall at its existing manufacturing base in Shizuoka Prefecture with an investment of about 60 billion yen. The plant, capable of manufacturing 240,000 compact cars a year, will become operational in the fall of 2008, they said.

Coalition agrees to loosen political donation rule

Coalition agrees to loosen political donation rule

TOKYO, Japan - The Liberal Democratic Party's Secretary General Taku Yamasaki (C) and representatives from two other governing coalition parties meet in Tokyo on June 11 and agreed to raise the minimum amount of political donations requiring mentioning the donor's name in official political funds reports from 50,000 yen a year to 240,000 yen.

Huge illumination corridor lit in Kobe

Huge illumination corridor lit in Kobe

KOBE, Japan - A 270-meter-long stretch of lights, containing 240,000 electric lamps, is test lit Dec. 7 in Kobe's Chuo Ward, western Japan. The lights, to shine Dec. 12-25, are to pray for the repose of the souls of the victims of the 1995 Kobe earthquake and for the restoration of the quake-devastated districts.

Japan's daily COVID-19 tally tops 240,000

Japan's daily COVID-19 tally tops 240,000

A news screen in Tokyo's Shibuya area shows on Aug. 3, 2022, that Japan's daily COVID-19 cases topped 240,000 for the first time.

Japan's daily COVID-19 tally tops 240,000

Japan's daily COVID-19 tally tops 240,000

A news screen in Tokyo's Shibuya area shows on Aug. 3, 2022, that Japan's daily COVID-19 cases topped 240,000 for the first time.