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.

The iQ micro car from Toyota, will be available in Japan from Nov. 20.  It can carry three adults and has additional space for a child or luggage.  It will be priced between 1.4 million yen ($14,300) and 1.6 million yen.  BMW’s Mini One is priced from 2.08 million yen, and Daimler AG’s twin-seat Smart For Two is sold from 1.76 million yen.

The Toyota iQ, is currently the world’s smallest four-seater car Measuring just under 3 meters. It is shorter than Japanese mini cars such as Daihatsu Motor Co.’s Move. and little longer than the 2.4-meter Smart ForTwo.

The iQ won this award mainly because of its space efficiency and design, particularly its ability to seat four people in a body less than three meter long, as well as its combination of safety and low CO2 emissions.

This car is currently not available in other countries. If you are interested, we can arrange shipment for you. It is a nice car for those who are looking for a compact, fuel efficient car for small family.

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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.

We cannot live without products from overseas, especially in Japan, since we do not have enough nature resource and cost to produce them here, so we have to outsource and buy them from foreign countries. While we depend on them, lots of Japan based companies moved thier factories to Asian countries, for example China, Thailand, Indnesia and so on, hire locals with inexpensive salary than Japan, and lecture the method to work. Our country, Japan, was the same in our old days, we could be developing with assistance of foreign countries. Now our position has been changed, developing to developed. We have to teach them not only how to work but also importance of hygiene, sanitation and safe for food production, the reason why so is, no one allowed to threaten the other’s health.

In Best Trading, we have no staff who got having that bad food, we are very fine. I have no idea when and where poison was into the foods, and who…in fact, it’s doubtful of deliberate accident, according to some newspaper. It is uncertain at this moment, however, I am looking for the truth coming out and the time we can eat anything with no worries.

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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.

we will introduce one of the traditional we normally do then.
named “Kagami-mochi”, means rice cake with Orange on the top.
it is said that Kagami-mochi was given to the God when Boys go for the war and Girls have good health for a gift long time ago.

since then, it is custom of New Year to pray health at the begining year.
after New Year passed by, we will cut and eat them so that we can get good luck for 1 year, named “Kagami-Biraki”

we hope we introduce our custom of New Year annually 

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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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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!).
In these days, we have many inquiries by phone calls and e-mails from Russia. Japanese cars are so much popular there today than ever before, I have been thinking about we need a staff from Russia. Speaking Russian and Japanese, besides, being able to live in Japan…however, finally we got found.
She is going to get new Skype ID and announce to you soon in order all customers in Russia to contact her to talk about exporting Japanese cars. We believe we can supply more efficient service to you all.

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

It is being admired for its driving performance and mechanical technology from domestic and foreign auto industories.
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 thier products.

The previous model of GT-R had equipped its body based on Skyline, however, new GT-R has the original body. Therefore, new GT-R is distinguished from the latest Skyline, appered in the end of 2006, and no description of “Skyline” in the name of new GT-R.

We always have received many inquiries about Skyline and GT-R from the world. It usually takes a few month or so untill new model cars are lined up in Japanese auction market.
So…we can start suggesting and selling New-Used GT-R to you around the end of 2007 or the beginning of 2008.

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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!

In Japan, approaching typoon is one of the phenomenons of getting Autumn every year. We usually have big typoons more in September and Octorber than in July and August.
Once it hit the city, it is hard for us to spend our daily life. Crazy wind makes our umbrella no more work, many things like Kawara, tiles on roof of Japanese house, fly away and vehicle, even if it is big one, overturn. Driving rain is also bad for us because it causes floods.
Soon it comes good season for harvest. I hope Kome has no damage!!
(Do you know what Kome is? The answer is terribly good rice in Japanese.)

It will be probable that cars in the ship from Japan cannot leave on time due to bad weather. With strong waves, it is danger for both PCC/RoRo ships and container ships.
We will thank you for your understanding about a little delay to arrive at your port because of safeness and protecting your cars from damages.

 

 

Estos dias el crima un poco frio,pero esta muy bueno porque este verano hacia muchisimo calor en japon.
Hacia un calor inusitado,renovo un recordo de tempratura.
Nunca tuvimos tan calor como este verano.

Ahora estamos epoca de tifon.Siempre vienen muchos tifones en septiembre o ocutubre.
a veces gran tifon da un golpe directo a la ciudad y nuestra vida.
El gran tifon trae viento muy fuerte y se lleva el tejado o a veces se lleva el auto tambien.
Hacemos auccion aunque tormenta,pero es muy duro examinar en ese situacion…
Despues de tormentas viene tiempo cosecha.Ojala que el tifon no le de un golpe a Kome…
(Sabe que es Kome?Kome es el mejor arros !)

Me parece que puede ser que haya unos probremitas del barco desde japon por el tema de tifon(las olas
altas etc..)
Es un peligro para barcos de PCC/RoRo y contenedor.
Muchas gracias por entender de aplazar unos dias para salir del puerto,eso para protejer y no danar
a sus autos. 

Hoy presentamos Auction en Kyushu,punta del extremo meridional de japon.
ahi se pueden comprar muy barato pero sale un poco caro por el tema del barco.
 

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