THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT intends to modify the fuel efficiency standards so that electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids will also be subject to tax assessments, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

THE JAPANESE government intends to effectively ban products of two major Chinese telecommunications equipment makers – Huawei Technologies Co and ZTE Corp – from telecommunications devices at government ministries and agencies, the Self-Defence Forces and other entities, as their products have been described as posing a national security risk, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.