Business
Mitsubishi Materials Corp., Japan’s largest nonferrous metal smelter, and other Japanese companies can’t be sued in California by people who say they were forced to work as slave laborers during World War II, a state appeals court said.
Feb. 7, 2003
Mitsubishi Rayon Co.
May 11, 1990
Autos
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said today that it has agreed with Chrysler Corp. on a plan to build Mitsubishi cars in the United States and hopes to start in the second half of 1988.
April 15, 1985
Technology and the Internet
Courts: $134-million penalty stems from firm’s conviction for helping an illegal cartel fix prices.
May 11, 2001
Americans Less Confident About Retirement Savings
Scant attention was paid over the past decade when Japanese industry forged ahead with the task of making mundane commercial products out of “new materials”--high-technology compounds spun off from U.S. defense research.
Jan. 23, 1989
AT&T;, Mitsubishi in Chip Venture: AT&T; Microelectronics and a division of Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric Industrial Corp. said they will work together on integrated circuit development for wireless products such as cellular telephones.
Oct. 9, 1991
A unit of Fluor Corp. has dropped from a partnership formed just last year to build a $640-million copper smelter in Indonesia.
April 25, 1996
Since the dawn of the Jet Age, designers have built aircraft chiefly from sheets of aluminum.
May 9, 2005
Richard D.
Oct. 1, 1996