As someone with firsthand knowledge of what it was like to be spirited away against their will to North Korea, Kaoru Hasuike has a unique insight into the thorny abduction issue.
Tokyo’s Central Wholesale Market in Tsukiji may be long gone, but the warren of narrow streets that constitute the outer market area, called Tsukiji Jogai Shijo, still bustle with a taste and a sense of the old days.
The recent widespread shutdown at Toyota group’s assembly plants exposed a vulnerability in its hallmark “lean” production system, which minimizes inventory.
Toyota Motor Corp. fully resumes production in Japan with the remaining production line at a plant in Gifu Prefecture back in operation, after disruption caused by an explosion at a parts supplier's factory.