Tokyo - The Japanese carmaker Honda has announced measures to improve pedestrian safety with a new generation of crash test dummies aimed at reducing pedestrian lower back and upper leg injuries.
The car maker said the Polar III dummy improved the evaluation of the injuries common in collisions between pedestrians and taller vehicles such as SUVs (Sports Utility Vehicle) or minivans.
In 1998, Honda was the first car maker to develop a pedestrian crash test dummy to help identify parts of the vehicle most often causing injuries in collisions with pedestrians.
Tokyo - The Bank of Japan decided on Tuesday to keep its key short-term interest rate unchanged at 0.5 per cent as uncertainty spread over the future course of the world's second-largest economy amid global financial crisis.
The policy board of Japan's central bank voted unanimously to forego an interest rate hike at the end of a two-day meeting.
The Japanese economy "has been sluggish against the backdrop of high energy and materials prices and weaker growth in exports," the bank said in a statement.
Tokyo - The Bank of Japan (BOJ) pumped 1 trillion yen (9.69 billion dollars) into the money market Tuesday to ease disruptions amid the global financial crisis.
Japan's central bank conducted the emergency measure for the 15th consecutive business day since the US investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc filed for bankruptcy on September 15.
The bank's move came after the Tokyo market plunged to a five-year low, which sent the key Nikkei Stock Average index below the 10,000 mark Tuesday.
Tokyo - News about the latest emergency package to save Germany's real estate financier Hypo Real Estate Holding AG could not clear the gloomy atmosphere in far-away Asia. It was the same with the bail-out package for US financial institutions approved last week.
It was no longer the banking crisis alone that caused deep concern in Japan and other Asian countries. The biggest fear now was that the financial disaster would develop into a global crisis with catastrophic results for all sectors of the economy.
Tokyo - The Japanese carmaker Honda has announced measures to improve pedestrian safety with a new generation of crash test dummies aimed at reducing pedestrian lower back and upper leg injuries.
Tokyo - The Tokyo stoc
Tokyo - The Bank of Japan decided on Tuesday to keep its key short-term interest rate unchanged at 0.5 per cent as uncertainty spread over the future course of the world's second-largest economy amid global financial crisis.
Tokyo - The Bank of Japan (BOJ) pumped 1 trillion yen (9.69 billion dollars) into the money market Tuesday to ease disruptions amid the global financial crisis.
Tokyo - Stocks in Tokyo continued their downward c
Tokyo - News about the latest emergency package to save Germany's real estate financier Hypo Real Estate Holding AG could not clear the gloomy atmosphere in far-away Asia. It was the same with the bail-out package for US financial institutions approved last week.
