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Retreat or reinforcement? Decoding foreign investment in China

STORY: Retreat or reinforcement? Decoding foreign investment in China SHOOTING TIME: Recent footage DATELINE: April 27, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:48 LOCATION: Beijing/SHANGHAI/RUGAO, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Shanghai 2. various of Mercedes-Benz 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): HUBERTUS TROSKA, Member of Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG 4. various of Swedish truck maker Scania 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): MATS HARBORN, President of Scania China Group 6. various of city views STORYLINE: Germany's leading luxury automaker Mercedes-Benz on April 19 inaugurated a new building as an upgrade of its R&D center in the metropolis. The center enables efficient software and hardware development and comprehensive environment simulation, facilitating testing of End-to-End, OTA, and V2X functions. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): HUBERTUS TROSKA, Member of Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG "Mercedes-Benz is very confident about China, both the economy and the market. This is the biggest and fastest

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Flowers in Fukushima evacuation zone traded in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Yoichi Kanno of the Yamakiya district of Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, looks at his Lisianthus cut flowers traded in Tokyo's Ota Market on July 23, 2014, for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power accident. The district has been designated as an evacuation zone since the disaster.

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Fukushima promotes specialties

TOKYO, Japan - Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato (C) tastes a peach along with two Miss Peach sales promoters at Ota Market in Tokyo, on Aug. 18, 2011. The governor was aiming to demonstrate the safety of farm products in Fukushima Prefecture, which have been suffering from negative consumer attitudes due to the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Japan to return inedible foreign rice to exporting nations

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Seiichi Ota speaks during a news conference at his ministry on Sept. 12. He said the government will return imported rice to exporting countries if it is found to be tainted and inedible as part of preventive measures against distribution of such rice in the Japanese market.

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Used PC market expanding rapidly

TOKYO, Japan - Workers at a maintenance plant of NEC Personal Products Co., a subsidiary of NEC Corp., in Ota, Gunma Prefecture, exchanges parts of used personal computers.

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TOP Water Systems' Mobile Water Purification System for Disaster "TOP Rescue RO II

Top Water Systems (Ota-ku, Tokyo) will develop a new, smaller and lower-priced version of its TOP Rescue RO II (photo), a mobile water purification system for use during disasters. The company aims to complete the product by June 2020, with a sales target of 100 units for the first year. The size is expected to be less than one-third of the conventional models. The RO II is priced at 6 million yen (excluding consumption tax), and the new product aims to be priced at less than 1 million yen. We will continue to sell the ROII as our main product, but we will expand the market by adding compact products that can be installed in any location, including homes, in order to create a synergistic effect. The RO II has been improved to supply not only water for domestic use and drinking, but also sanitary water for medical use. (Photo taken on October 17, 2019,credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Japan to return inedible foreign rice to exporting nations

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Seiichi Ota speaks during a news conference at his ministry on Sept. 12. He said the government will return imported rice to exporting countries if it is found to be tainted and inedible as part of preventive measures against distribution of such rice in the Japanese market. (Kyodo)

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Fukushima promotes specialties

TOKYO, Japan - Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato (C) tastes a peach along with two Miss Peach sales promoters at Ota Market in Tokyo, on Aug. 18, 2011. The governor was aiming to demonstrate the safety of farm products in Fukushima Prefecture, which have been suffering from negative consumer attitudes due to the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Kyodo)

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Flowers in Fukushima evacuation zone traded in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Yoichi Kanno of the Yamakiya district of Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, looks at his Lisianthus cut flowers traded in Tokyo's Ota Market on July 23, 2014, for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power accident. The district has been designated as an evacuation zone since the disaster. (Kyodo)