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• Toyota in 11-day factory shutdown

  6 Jan 2009: World's second-biggest carmaker attempts to stave off redundancies and shift stock of unsold cars amid catastrophic decline in sales

• UK braced for bleak news as global car sales fall

  5 Jan 2009: Car sales have plunged in Japan, France and the US and UK figures out this week are expected to make grim reading

• Japan sees biggest population fall

  2 Jan 2009:

  Sharpest decline ever poses economic threat to growth prospects amid global recession

• Japanese banks could receive $110bn bail-out

  30 Dec 2008: The reported scheme to relieve the country's banks of trillions of yen in bad loans is the latest emergency measure designed to pull the Japanese economy back from the brink

• Japan suffers record fall in industrial output

  26 Dec 2008: Latest figures deepen recession gloom in east Asia

• Sales slump puts Toyota on track for first loss in 70 years

  23 Dec 2008:

  Japanese carmaker issues second warning as profits pummelled by global downturn and soaring yen

• Toyota heads for first loss since 1938

  22 Dec 2008: Surging yen and dramatic fall in exports batter profits at Japan's biggest carmaker

• Governments pour more resources into battle against global recession

  20 Dec 2008:

  News from the world's second, third and fourth biggest economies reinforces fears about 2009 economic forecast

• Panasonic to take control of Sanyo in ¥800bn deal

  19 Dec 2008: Japan's biggest consumer electronics deal to go ahead after weeks of ill-tempered talks in which major shareholder Goldman held out for a higher price. By Justin McCurry

• Japan slashes interest rates to 0.1%

  19 Dec 2008: Bank of Japan's cut from 0.3% is another attempt by central banks around the world to drag the global economy out of recession

• Rapist guilty of mutilating Lucie Blackman

  17 Dec 2008:

  Japanese property developer found guilty of kidnapping, mutilating and abandoning British nightclub hostess

• Japanese rapist guilty of Lucie Blackman kidnap

  16 Dec 2008: Joji Obara, jailed for life for attacks on nine women, convicted at Tokyo high court of abducting and mutilating the body of British bar hostess

• Timeline: Lucie Blackman

  16 Dec 2008: Chronology of the disappearance of the British bar hostess in Japan

• Japanese business confidence shows biggest fall since 1975

  15 Dec 2008: Sharp rise in the yen and the global financial crisis have deepened gloom among Japanese car and electronics makers

• Founder of Japan's Red Army in final appeal for freedom

  13 Dec 2008:

  Fusako Shigenobu is serving 20 years for orchestrating the 1974 siege of the French embassy in The Hague

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