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Drone medicine delivery service

A self-operating drone carrying prescribed medicine flies over a patient's house on a remote island in Goto in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Nagasaki on Feb. 10, 2025, after leaving a nearby medical clinic. Trading company Toyota Tsusho Corp. conducted the test flight of about 3.2 kilometers in an area lacking public transportation, aiming to begin commercial service in the business year from April at the earliest.

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Drone medicine delivery service

A self-operating drone carrying prescribed medicine flies over a patient's house on a remote island in Goto in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Nagasaki on Feb. 10, 2025, after leaving a nearby medical clinic. Trading company Toyota Tsusho Corp. conducted the test flight of about 3.2 kilometers in an area lacking public transportation, aiming to begin commercial service in the business year from April at the earliest.

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Egypt grants land to build 3 GW wind farm in southern province

STORY: Egypt grants land to build 3 GW wind farm in southern province DATELINE: Aug. 31, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:44 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: ENERGY/ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the signing of land for the western wind power project (courtesy of Egyptian Cabinet) STORYLINE: Egypt granted on Wednesday an 852-square-kilometer land in the southern province of Sohag for building a wind farm that can produce 3 gigawatts of electricity per day, in an attempt to bolster the country's green energy production. The project will be carried out by a joint venture between Egypt's New and Renewable Energy Authority and the consortium partners -- Orascom Construction PLC, Toyota Tsusho Corporation, and French energy company ENGIE, according to a government statement. The new wind farm is planned to supply clean energy for two million households and will contribute to reducing CO2 emissions by 6.5 million tons per year, said the statement. The new project will provide 8,000 direct and indirect job opportunities, it added

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Mobile hydrogen station for fuel-cell vehicles unveiled

NAGOYA, Japan - Officials cut the ribbon at a ceremony marking the opening of a site for a mobile hydrogen station for next-generation fuel-cell vehicles in the compounds of the Aichi prefectural government office on Dec. 18, 2014. The station, to be operated by Toyota Tsusho Corp., is expected to be fully launched for public use as early as June 2015.

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Trebling output of 'Kindai tuna' in FY 2020 eyed

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeru Miyashita (2nd from L), head of the Kinki University Fisheries Laboratory, shows a certificate to recognize Toyota Tsusho Corp.-raised bluefin tuna as "Kindai tuna," the university brand tuna, at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 26, 2014. They plan to increase yearly output of tuna to 6,000 in fiscal 2020.

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Toyota Tsusho, Kinki Univ. expand tuna farming alliance

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Tsusho Corp. President Jun Karube (2nd from R) attend a press conference in Tokyo on July 16, 2014, announcing an expansion of cooperation between the company and Kinki University in the bluefin tuna cultivation business.

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Toyota Tsusho to acquire French trading house CFAO

NAGOYA, Japan - Jun Karube, president of Toyota Tsusho Corp., speaks at a press conference in Nagoya on July 26, 2012. Toyota Tsusho, a trading house in the Toyota Motor group, said the same day it will seek to acquire a controlling stake in CFAO SA, a French trading house dealing in automobiles and medicines in African countries, by investing more than 100 billion yen.

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Toyota uses Singapore as test ground for 1-seater electric vehicle

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Japan's Toyota Tsusho Corp. launches a project on July 19, 2012, to test COMS, a single-seat electric vehicle, at the campus of the National University of Singapore. The super-compact electric vehicle was made by Toyota Auto Body Co., part of the Toyota group, for the Southeast Asian market.

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Toyota Tsusho, Tomen announce merger

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Tsusho Corp. President Junzo Shimizu (L) and Tomen Corp. President Mahito Kageyama shake hands in Nagoya on Oct. 28 after announcing a broad agreement to merge into the sixth-largest trading house in Japan on April 1.

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Toyota Tsusho, Tomen announce merger

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Tsusho Corp. President Junzo Shimizu (L) and Tomen Corp. President Mahito Kageyama shake hands in Nagoya on Oct. 28 after announcing a broad agreement to merge into the sixth-largest trading house in Japan on April 1. (Kyodo)

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Kenya's president calls for more Japanese investment

Kenya's president Uhuru Kenyatta (standing) speaks during a meeting with Japanese business executives at the State House in Nairobi on Aug. 20, 2015, with Jun Karube, president of Japan's Toyota Tsusho Corp., sitting next to him. Kenyatta called for more Japanese investment in Kenya. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mobile hydrogen station for fuel-cell vehicles unveiled

NAGOYA, Japan - Officials cut the ribbon at a ceremony marking the opening of a site for a mobile hydrogen station for next-generation fuel-cell vehicles in the compounds of the Aichi prefectural government office on Dec. 18, 2014. The station, to be operated by Toyota Tsusho Corp., is expected to be fully launched for public use as early as June 2015. (Kyodo)

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Trebling output of 'Kindai tuna' in FY 2020 eyed

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeru Miyashita (2nd from L), head of the Kinki University Fisheries Laboratory, shows a certificate to recognize Toyota Tsusho Corp.-raised bluefin tuna as "Kindai tuna," the university brand tuna, at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 26, 2014. They plan to increase yearly output of tuna to 6,000 in fiscal 2020. (Kyodo)

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1st Japan food export fair opens in Chiba

Employees of Toyota Tsusho Corp. promote "Kindai Tuna," a farmed bluefin tuna brand, and other products to a visitor of a booth set up by the trading company at an export fair for Japanese foods, which opened at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba east of Tokyo on Oct. 11, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo