ロッキード事件とは、アメリカの航空機製造大手のロッキード社による、主に同社の旅客機の受注をめぐって1976年2 月に明るみに出た世界的な大規模汚職事件。の英語

The Lockheed scandal is a worldwide corruption scandal involving the major American plane manufacturer Lockheed. It came to light in February 1976 and revolved mainly around the acceptance of passenger plane contracts.

A group led by Sony Corporation of America has basically agreed to buy the major U.S. movie company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

Tezuka Koji, a former administrator for the Lotte Marines, is the head of the department.

A senior vice president of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ishii Izumi, said, "We successfully launched four H-IIA rockets in a short period of time. This gives us great confidence in our rocket."

The merger will create the world's third-largest stock exchange after NYSE Euronext and the NASDAQ OMX Group.

Narita International Airport Corporation replaced the New Tokyo International Airport Authority, the former operator of Narita Airport, on April 1.

The company has temporarily shifted its operations to its plant in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture.

On Sept. 12, following the Nippon Ham Group's beef mislabeling scam, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries filed criminal complaints of fraud against the three former managers of the Himeji, Ehime and Tokushima offices of Nippon Food.

Mimasaka Post Office in Okayama started this system in cooperation with the taxi company Aida Kotsu.

On Sept. 2, TEPCO announced that President Minami Naoya and other top executives would resign their posts to take responsibility for the scandal.

Square Company, the maker of "Final Fantasy," and Enix Corporation, the maker of "Dragon Quest," will merge in April next year.

Tsurumaki Hideo, the president of the company, said, "In Southeast Asia, most people have to arrange financing to buy a car. I don't want such a precious car to be damaged by floods."

Large companies were transferring their production bases to the suburbs or overseas and their subcontractors in Higashiosaka were forced to close down.

Ito Takanobu, the president of Honda R&D Company, says, "We have taken a big step toward our goal of developing a robot that can help people in the office."

On April 15, Merlin Entertainments, a major visitor attractions company based in England, held a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate construction of Legoland Japan in Nagoya.

The merger is expected to form the world's second-largest steel producer after Luxemburg's ArcelorMittal.

On Oct. 3, Sweden's Karolinska Institute announced that this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Osumi Yoshinori, an honorary professor at Japan's Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech).

Sony hopes that the large MGM movie library will help boost DVD sales and also help increase the sales of Sony DVD players.

On Feb. 1, Facebook, the world's largest SNS company, filed papers with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to sell stock to the public.

At the beginning of this month, Japan's largest toy maker, Bandai Company, and the game maker Namco said they will merge in this September.

Fukushima Yasuhiro, the former chairman of Square Enix Company, is one of the 388 winners of the Medal with Blue Ribbon.

The supervisor of the construction handed a special "key" to Legoland Japan President Torben Jensen.

JPX CEO Saito Atsushi said, "We aim to become the market of choice for the world's investors. We hope to revitalize Japan's financial and capital markets and contribute to the growth of the Japanese economy."

RIKEN, Osaka University, the National Research Institute of Police Science and Hitachi will work on a joint development project.

On April 8, Toda Hiroyuki, the president of Seibu Railway at that time, was demoted to a company director.

Fujiya Company, one of the major confectioners, shut down in January because it was disclosed that Fujiya's Saitama plant was using ingredients that were past their expiration date.

This year, the company’s nine beer factories are holding workshops that give children the chance to make a coin bank out of cardboard.

Koja Masafumi, a product planner at Pilot Corporation, and Senga Kuniyuki, a product developer at Pilot Ink Co., Ltd., talked to “Catch a Wave” about their companies’ development efforts.

Mitsubishi is in keen competition with South Korea in the shipbuilding industry, and the Diamond Princess was its biggest undertaking in a decade.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency upped the level of the incident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from level 5 to level 7.