Economy of Japan

The Japanese government has for the first time announced a list of over 300 businesses nationwide that have broken labor laws. Officials want to protect employees from abuse and prevent "karoshi," or death by overwork.

The Prosecutor's Office is checking contracts that have been concluded by the National Electricity Company (NEC) with consultancy and legal service firms.

This was announced for FOCUS News Agency by Spokesperson for Prosecutor-General Rumyana Arnaudova.

Japan's Kansai Paint has acquired a 50 percent stake in Turkey's Polisan Holding's paint unit, Polisan Boya, for $113 million, the companies said in a written statement on Oct. 31. 

Arriving at the EU summit, Cerar said Yaskawa Electric had decided on a new investment in Slovenia, which he said would bring new jobs to Slovenia, and which proved Slovenians "are capable of winning such investments in fierce competition".

You might have heard that come FIFA World Cup time, women supposedly complain their partners are more interested in watching the matches than having sex. So what is the deal with football and men? Could this ‘urban myth’ actually be true and men really do like football better than sex?

IHI will become the first Japanese company to establish a factory for compressors in Turkey, which it sees as a base for exporting the machines to Europe, the Middle East and other growing markets.

The Tokyo-based heavy industry group will partner with Turkish industrial machinery maker Dalgakıran Makina on the joint-venture plant. 

The robot’s name Kirobo comes from a combination of ‘kibo’, or ‘hope’, and ‘robot’, with its creators saying that its value is emotional and has the intelligence of a child.

The Chairman of the Energy Commission in Parliament Delyan Dobrev does not expect any problems to arise concerning the necessary approval of the European Commission for the granting of state aid to the National Electric Company (NEC)

Bulgaria is preparing to grant an interest-free loan to NEC. NEC will use it to pay Atomstroyexport for the equipment ordered for the Belene plant.

Mitsubishi Motors Corp said it had used fuel economy testing methods that were not compliant with Japanese regulations for 25 years, much longer than previously known, and would set up an external committee to investigate the matter.

Mitsubishi Motors Corp said it falsified fuel economy test data to make emissions levels look more favorable, and its shares slumped more than 15 percent, wiping $1.2 billion from its market value on April 20.