Honda and Nissan signing a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding on producing key components for electric vehicles and artificial intelligence in automotive software platforms is a further sign that Japanese car manufacturers are drawing their horns in and regrouping to focus …
Read More“Don’t be ordinary, Honda” urges a 20 page special feature in Nikkei Business magazine. It points out that Honda occupies a similar space to Sony in Japanese people’s hearts. They both had maverick founders, produced quirky, innovative products for …
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g down the Swindon UK factory was not the only announcement Honda made in February 2019. They are ceasing production of Civics in Turkey, merging their motorbike production in Brazil, bringing R&D for motorbikes in-house and also making some …
“Europe is the heart of global car culture” says Takahiro Hachigo, Honda’s President since 2015. Although Honda has less than 1% market share in Europe, it competes with European car brands in its main markets of the USA and China. …
Read MoreRecent reports that Mitsubishi Motors is to join the Honda-Nissan alliance show that Japanese car companies are forming two camps – Toyota and Not-Toyota.
According to the Nikkei, Mitsubishi Motors, which is 34% owned by Nissan, will work with …
Read MoreWe have finalised the Top 30 rankings for the largest Japanese employers in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region (free download below). As before, the extent to which Japanese companies take the UN Sustainable Development Goals pretty seriously has …
Read MoreWe’ve decided to stop trying to compile the Top 30 largest Japanese employers in the UK by corporate grouping. Partly this is because a substantial number of Japanese companies in the UK have become branches, so do not report their …
Read MoreIn the seven years since the Brexit referendum, the benefits of Japanese long term planning for resilience have become clear. Although employment by Japanese companies in the UK has fallen since 2018/9, this is largely in the automotive …
Read MoreToyo Keizai’s ranking of Japanese companies who have contributed the most financially to CSR activities (either donations or “in kind” activities) show that, unsurprisingly, those sectors which most directly impact Japanese citizen’s lives are also those who contribute the most.…
Read MoreThe statement by Stellantis that it may be forced to shut some of its UK operations if the current local content rules in the Brexit deal continue prompted me to take a look at the current situation for Japanese car …
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