Tokyo - Japanese carmaker Toyota said Tuesday it is cutting back production of luxury cars and slashing bonus payments for thousands of managers as a result of declining sales.
Toyota said it was reducing production of Lexus cars at two plants in Tahara in central Japan and Miyakawa in the south-west of the country on December 24 and 25.
Night shift work will also be partially halted in January at the two plants, which mostly assemble cars for export, the company said.
Toyota also plans to cut the winter bonus payments of about 8,500 managers by around 10 per cent.
Tokyo, Dec. 2 : A previously unknown son of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il may be emerging as a contender to replace him when he dies, according to reports.
"Until now the in-fighting appeared to have been between two factions representing Kim''s two sons, Kim Jong Nam and Kim Jong Chol, but there are now reports of another son coming forward," The Telegraph quoted Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor of international relations at Tokyo''s Waseda University and an expert on North Korean affairs, as saying.
Tokyo - The Japanese central bank Tuesday decided on emergency measures to support Japanese companies hit by the global financial crisis.
The central bank's eight-member Policy Board agreed in an extraordinary session on a set of policies aimed at encouraging banks to offer loans to companies facing cash problems as a result of the crisis.
The board also decided to leave the short-term interest rate unchanged at 0.3 percent.
Taipei - Taiwan's National Palace Museum, which holds the world's largest collection of Chinese artifacts, plans to hold an exhibition in Britain and Japan, the museum said Tuesday.
"We are negotiating with the British Museum for an exchange of exhibitions - we hold an exhibition of Chinese treasures at the British Museum and they display their collection of Greek sculptures at the National Palace Museum," a museum press officer told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
"The negotiation is still going on. We don't know when the exhibitions can be held, because even after we have reached agreement, we have to wait till both museums have the space to hold the exhibitions," she said, asking not to be named.
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Tokyo - Japanese carmaker Toyota said Tuesday it is cutting back production of luxury cars and slashing bonus payments for thousands of managers as a result of declining sales.
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Tokyo, Dec. 2 : A previously unknown son of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il may be emerging as a contender to replace him when he dies, according to reports.
Tokyo - The Japanese central bank Tuesday decided on emergency measures to support Japanese companies hit by the global financial crisis.
