Fukushima evacuees screened for radiation. Photo Source: Mail Online

Daily Mail: Sealed off and screened for radiation: Tsunami survivors make emotional visit to ghost-town homes engulfed by Japan’s nuclear meltdown

The people were covered in protective suits, head nets, and rubber gloves before being screen and transported by bus to the devastated region.
After an painful [...]

China Daily: Royal couple visits evacuees

Two months after Japan’s quake and tsunami catastrophe sparked a nuclear disaster, Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited evacuees from the radiation zone on Wednesday.
Hundreds of well-wishers cheered and waved as the 77-year-old emperor and the empress, 76, arrived at Fukushima airport by Self-Defense Forces aircraft before changing to [...]

Every year, New York based consultants Interbrand release a list of the world’s 100 best brands based on such elements as financial strength, influence on purchasing decisions, and earnings potential. This year, while Coca Cola was the ‘best global brand’, Toyota remained Japan’s top brand around the world, in spite of a drop compared to [...]

The Wall Street Journal reported the other day that the Toyota Prius hybrid will this year become the best selling model in a calendar year, beating out the 20 year record of the Toyota Corolla. The Corolla marked 300,008 vehicles in sales in 1990, and so far this year (to November) the Prius has already [...]

Toyota is going on the offense at the end of the year in the US, with a massive launch to their ‘Toyotathon’ marketing and sales campaign which has been a fixture for about three decades. After being the biggest selling maker under the Obama government’s ‘Cash for Clunkers’ policy, Toyota believe themselves well placed to capitalize [...]

In its annual list of the 100 Best Global Brands, Business Week has placed two Japanese brands in the top 20, with Toyota the highest ranked at 8 (down 2 places from last year). The second placed Japanese company is Honda, up two spots to 18th. While Japan has two [...]