held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new semiconductor plant in
Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture on Wednesday, as it revived its earlier plan to boost output capacity, given a recent recovery in demand for chips use in smartphones and other gadgets.
''I would like Foreign Minister Lavrov to visit Japan in the first half of this year as much as possible and I would like to visit Russia in the latter half (of this year,)'' Okada said in a speech in
Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture.
company is expected to be obliged to sell its production equipment in the factory in
Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, under the antimonopoly law, the sources said.
The technology to utilize extra heavy oil, whose global reserves are estimated to be almost equivalent to those of crude oil, was developed in conjunction with the International Center for Environmental Technology Transfer (ICETT) in
Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, it said.
Two people on bicycles died Thursday when they were knocked onto a railway crossing by a car behind them and were hit by an express train in
Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, police said.
''It's desirable to reach a conclusion by the end of December'' in light of the process to compile the fiscal 2010 state budget, Okada said in a speech in
Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture.
Toshinori Asai, 57, allegedly sold around 570 tons of the contaminated rice to the dealer in
Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, from 2006 to 2007 after his company purchased the China-produced rice from the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry in the name of making glue, they said.
The pipeline will run from either Chubu Electric's Kawagoe thermal power plant in Mie Prefecture or its liquefied natural gas facility in
Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, to a pipeline that Osaka Gas is building in Shiga Prefecture.
The two companies plan to employ the new cell technology starting in the first half of 2004 with 2-gigabit and 4-gigabit NAND flash memory chips that will be manufactured by their joint venture in
Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, they said.