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Japanese Car of the Year – Toyota iQ

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Micro car iQ from Toyota Motor Corporations’s is named the Japanese Car of the Year 2008-09. This award is organized by Japanese Coty Web site. The winners were selected by a committee of sixty-five jurors who are writers and consultants from automobile industry.

Toyota IQ - Japanese Car of the Year

Toyota iQ won this prestigious award by a great margin over competitors such as Citroen’s C5, Audi’s A4 and Jaguar’s XF. This is a good news for Toyota, as it will help them to advertise the 1-liter iQ to boost sales amid slumping demand for new automobiles in Japan and the U.S. (more…)

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Poisoned Food Threaten People in Japan

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

These days, every Japanese TV show reports some of frozen foods sold in a lot of supermarkets in Japan are likelihood of poison. They are imported from China, one of the biggest country of food exporter in the world. The importer, a business company based Tokyo, and the exporter in China is now under investigating why it should happen and who is blamed about this affair. Fortunately, there are no the deceased so far but many poison victims who took the meat dumplings (“Gyo-za”) around Japan. Japanese news says sales of frozen food falls 40% down after 31th Jan, the day of this contamination being surfaced. (more…)

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Happy New Year from Japan to the World!!

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Happy New Year everyone!!

“Happy New Year”
it become Greetingfor annual event.
How do you all spend New Year in your country?

it is important and traditional than Christmas, not only Japan but also any other far east countries. (more…)

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Notice about New Year Holidays

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Dear Valued Customers and Readers of this blog,

We are going to have New Years Holidays from 29th December 2007 to 6th January 2008.

I know you are wondering why Japanese people take such long holidays at the ending and beginning of the year, and also I know people living outside Japan do have holiday on 1st January, New Year’s Day.

We’re very sorry if we are delay to answer you about inquires between holidays, however, I’m sure we will reply to you on 7th January 2008.

I look forward to meeting many customers around the world and talk about something in 2008.

And…we hope you have a lovely New Year’s Day!!

Best Regards,
Kenji Yoshimoto
President
Best Trading Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan)

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A Russian Staff Come and Joined Us from November

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

We have a new staff from Russia, she has started working with us from 5th November. She speaks Japanese very well!! We went Russian restaurant around Shinjuku yesterday with her as well as another Japanese staff and took delicious wine, borscht and Russian tea (tea with strawberry jam, it’s Russian style!). (more…)

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Tokyo Motor Show 2007 Vol.1

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

I went to Tokyo Motor Show 2007, held at Makuhari Messe, with one of my customers coming from Maldives yesterday. It was opened only to the press or people in auto industry yesterday, they opens to the public from 27th October (Sat) to 11th November (Sun). This is one of very excited events for Japanese car maniacs and they are gathering there from all parts of Japan.
We found various kinds of next generation cars then and had a very exciting time!!

I’m going to write about then in Tokyo Motor Show 2007 with some photos next Monday. Check it out!!

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Nissan New GT-R launches this autumn

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd launches new “GT-R” this autumn.

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It is being admired for its driving performance and mechanical technology from domestic and foreign auto industries.
2 types of package will be available, one is normal, and another is high-power package, they estimate it can reach 450HP. Nissan has already done its test driving at foreign test courses, especially at circular course in Germany, it recorded the best performance compared with all cars in the market. Nissan is planning to inform the public, to focus it on as Nissan’s flag ship model and connect it with image up of them and their products. (more…)

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Japanese Mini Trucks

Friday, September 7th, 2007

As people who have been dealer of mini trucks for ages, might have known, there have been exported mini trucks to U.S approximately a few times than last year.
Involving Auction market price has been dramatically increase, would not be able to provide cheap and high quality vehicles recent year.

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Moreover, we have heard that traders in Japan have been including lately, and some exporters do container vanning without its knowledge and then get many troubles. (more…)

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Approach of typoon to Tokyo

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

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(quotation from Yahoo!Japan)

A big typoon, named FITOW is approaching to Japan now.

We had cool weather these days…it is very nice for us because it was too hot this summer in Japan!! The Japanese record for the maximum temperature was broken, it was 40.9 degrees Celsius / 105.62 degrees Fahrenheit on 16th August in Saitama and Gifu (they are apart each other but both inland areas). In the other words, we experienced the hottest summer we had never had! (more…)

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Welcome to Tokyo!! Bienvenidos a Tokio!!

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Welcome to Tokyo!!
The customers came from Namibia (3 person) and Laos (1 person) to our company from the 1st August to yesterday. Though it did not of course come together, I bought a lot of vehicles.Two visits have come in succession because I was not in Japan in July.Everyone bought a lot of used cars at the auction and I worked very hard, though I enjoyed it very much. (more…)

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