Alliances & Technology Transfer

Japanese materials manufacturer Toray Industries will build a new plant to make water treatment membranes in China, doubling its production capacity in a country facing water shortages.

JOLED, which resulted from a merger of Panasonic's and Sony's next-generation display businesses, has raised 25.5 billion yen ($228.9 million), the company announced on Monday.

Toyota Motor and about 40 other leading Japanese companies will create a framework for sharing technologies and business ideas to spur innovation, joining a growing global trend for collaborative development.

Japanese trading house Marubeni said Thursday that it will team with Kansai Electric Power and Chubu Electric Power to efficiently deliver electricity to a Filipino green city being built on the site of a former U.S. military base.

Japan will dispatch specialists and advisers in areas such as trade to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations as part of a cooperation deal to be signed later this year.

Japan urged the Chinese government to boost protections for intellectual property at their inaugural dialogue on innovation here Tuesday as Beijing seeks to deepen economic and technological cooperation with Tokyo amid the trade war with the U.S.

NAGOYA - Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it will allow royalty-free access to its nearly 24,000 patents for hybrid and other vehicles using electrification technology in a bid to expand competition in the market as the industry adopts stricter emissions regulations.

YXLON International, a division of the Swiss Comet Group, have today announced a collaboration with the Japanese company Nagoya Electric Works (NEW). The collaboration includes the development and distribution of specialized X-ray systems for the semiconductor industry.

Chat app operator Line and online secondhand marketplace Mercari have joined forces, the two companies said Wednesday, in the latest twist in the battle for dominance in Japan's cashless payment service.

Yamato Holdings, a Japanese parcel delivery company, and DHL, the Deutsche Post group's international logistics company, are jointly developing a small electric truck for door-to-door deliveries.