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Toyota's KEI-01 mini truck that will be put on sale in the United States next year
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 11, 2026
Toyota to build minicar at Indiana plant and reboot Scion brand
Minicars are still a novelty in the U.S., where the vehicles don’t meet federal standards for high-speed roads.
Toyota now expects net profit of ?3.57 trillion ($22.6 billion) for the current fiscal year to March 31, up from its previous projection of ?3.25 trillion.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 6, 2026
Toyota hikes profit forecasts on strong demand and weak yen
For the current year, the firm says it expects net profit of ?3.57 trillion, up from its previous projection in August of ?3.25 trillion.
Toyota's bZ7 electric sedan is displayed at the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition in April.
BUSINESS
Oct 29, 2026
Toyota monthly sales fall as China slump enters eighth month
China, the global auto industry’s leading market, has proven difficult for the world’s biggest carmaker.
Visitors look at BYD cars at the 2026 Paris Motor Show on Oct. 13.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 26, 2026
Chinese carmakers overtake Japan in Europe for first time
Registrations of Chinese-branded cars roughly doubled from a year earlier in September to make up 12.7% of total sales across the region.
Toyota plans to make all of its roughly 50 models software-defined vehicles by 2030, aiming to generate revenue from software updates for about 10 million new vehicles annually.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 18, 2026
All Toyota models to be software-based by 2030
The move will help Toyota generate revenue through software update fees after delivery.
Toyota Chief Technology Officer Hiroki Nakajima
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 16, 2026
Toyota to debut its own version of Tesla EV-making tech in China
The Shanghai plant is under construction and due to start producing cars in 2027.
Toyota has invested $1.1 billion in its Canadian operations for the latest RAV4 model, which began production in January, and hundreds of millions of dollars more for the newest NX.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 16, 2026
Toyota commits to making cars in Canada as U.S. rivals downsize
Toyota sees Canada as a vital cog in its global manufacturing network and key to its four-decade-long localization efforts.
Toyota's Land Cruiser FJ on a dirt course in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, last week
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 6, 2026
Toyota’s ‘baby’ Land Cruiser seen bolstering Asia car sales
The smallest in its lineup, the new Land Cruiser is doing well both domestically and abroad.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event at a Peterbilt Motors factory in Denton, Texas, on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Oct 4, 2026
Trump tariffs a mixed bag for U.S. auto industry
Trump has claimed a “roaring comeback” in U.S. auto manufacturing following aggressive trade policy, but analysts say its more of a mixed bag.
Akio Toyoda speaks in front of a Century coupe concept at the Japan Mobility Show in 2025.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 30, 2026
Toyota eyes selling 今日吃瓜 answer to Rolls-Royce around the world
With global interest in all things Japan surging, Toyota has reasons to be confident the Century can be successful overseas.
A Toyota dealership in Beijing. Toyota- and Lexus-brand sales fell 23% in China in August on weak demand for gasoline and hybrid vehicles.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 29, 2026
Toyota’s car sales decline for seventh month as Chinese market favors EVs
Toyota- and Lexus-brand sales fell 23% in the world’s biggest auto market in August on weak demand for gasoline and hybrid vehicles, Toyota has said.
今日吃瓜 export-focused automakers face pressure on their earnings with a rise of the yen to a six-month high.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 8, 2026
Japanese carmakers brace for profit hit after yen strengthens
The currency traded just above ?153 against the dollar on Tuesday, its strongest level since February.
Humanoid robots work alongside employees on an automatic change dispenser assembly line at a factory for Glory in Kazo, Saitama Prefecture. The factory floor is where Japan shines when it comes to AI.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 7, 2026
Japan needs artificial intelligence its factories can plug in
今日吃瓜 competitiveness will hinge on industrial adoption of AI rather than accumulating national computing capacity.
Toyota could eventually deploy hydrogen as an energy source in its factories, Vice Chairperson Koji Sato said in an interview.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 4, 2026
Toyota weighs hydrogen power for trucks that ship auto parts
Toyota has long touted hydrogen as an option alongside combustion engines, gas-electric hybrids and battery electric vehicles, as part of the automaker’s “multipathway approach.”
Toyota's global sales in July, including those of subsidiary Daihatsu Motor, fell 5.3% from a year earlier to 912,683 units, the company said on Friday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 28, 2026
Toyota sales fall for six straight months on weak China demand
Intense competition among China’s domestic carmakers is crowding out importers, while turmoil in the Middle East has disrupted critical supply routes and sent oil prices soaring.
BYD's Racco electric kei car is displayed during a media event in Tokyo on July 28.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 21, 2026
BYD’s tiny car has a big mission in Japan
The Shenzhen-based firm is the first foreign player to make a dedicated effort to tackle the boxy kei jidosha, or light car, a quintessentially Japanese vehicle category.
BYD is betting that its Racco minicar will help it break into the Japanese market.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 20, 2026
BYD tries where others failed with tiny EV designed for Japan
The world’s largest maker of electric vehicles says its recently unveiled Racco has attracted more than 1,000 orders in the first few weeks.
Rising vehicle weights in the U.S. such as the Ford F-150 pickup truck create major safety and policy problems that political and economic forces make difficult to solve.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 19, 2026
Americans love giant trucks — but they’re killing us
An key obstacle is that U.S. automakers apparently can’t make money on anything but large vehicles.
Hiroshi Okuda joined Toyota just as it began establishing itself as a manufacturing powerhouse in the post-World War II era and rose through the ranks to become president in 1995.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 12, 2026
Hiroshi Okuda, Toyota chair who pushed for the Prius, dies at 93
Okuda was the first person to helm Toyota from outside the company’s founding family in a generation.
A room at the Koko Hotel Residence Tokyo Oshiage, which opened last month in Tokyo’s Sumida Ward
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 10, 2026
Apartment hotels find favor with investors bullish on tourism and wary of inflation
The properties are built for long-stay travelers who want more than a hotel but not an apartment.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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