November 2009
JAL’s game of chicken
“Turbulent” wouldn’t properly describe the recent flight path of national flag carrier Japan Airlines, in a spiralling game of chicken with its retirees and unions over a $3.7 billion pension shortfall.
President Haruka Nishimatsu, who needs a pension deal to get bridge loans and bailout money from the state, is asking for an average 40 percent cut [...]
Retailers do the limbo
For some of Japan’s retailers trying to jumpstart consumer spending, setting prices is like doing the limbo: How low can they go?
Japanese retailers reported mostly dismal first-half earnings results, with the industry stuck in a slump as shoppers remain reluctant to open their wallets even as the economy emerges from recession.
With no sales pick-up in sight, stores seem [...]
Two dimensions of 3D
An old Saturday Night Live segment once included this joke when Frank Sinatra was still alive:
“‘Ol’ Blue Eyes’ is back in town, and sources report nobody’s interested and nobody cares.”
That line came back to me after Sony, once Japan’s “Big Blue”, announced Thursday its vision of an $11-billion 3D market by early 2013, with three-dimensional PlayStation 3s, TVs, Blu-ray Disc players, cameras, [...]
Dell new green bamboo packaging
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BYD spends 1.5b yuan on vehicle testing center
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Sion Power Self-Scrubbing Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
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Toshiba is busy on pushing lithium-ion
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Car Batteries Are Back up for Our Electrical Grid?
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Smartphone battery needs a ‘breakthrough’
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TonenGeneral and Toray team work on lithium-ion battery separator films
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