Thursday 18 March
Representing Japanese business interests in the US should have become a lot harder when the country’s flagship manufacturer Toyota announced in January that it had been selling cars with bad brakes and had to recall around…
Cartoons meet car-making as Tokyo animators move in with Toyota. Plus, we ask book publishers Harper Studio why it's betting on blogs, and preview tactile new photography book.
Car sales have collapsed but the economy is not the only problem: too many vehicles are design lemons – just see our list of 2009 sinners in issue 19. But this could be the year car design makes its comeback.
Rewind to 1980 and the idea of a Japanese luxury car brand would have been unthinkable. Today, Toyota's Lexus division has become a dominant force in the US luxury market and wants to do the same in Europe. Monocle's Editor…
Green credentials and energy efficiency were the buzzwords at the glitzy annual Geneva Motor Show, now in its 78th year. But the real show-stopper was Nissan's latest project, its luxury sub-brand Infiniti, set to launch…
Sunday 27 December
At the beginning of 2009 pretty much every industry commentator was predicting auto-armageddon for the world’s car makers, but a combination of gadzillions of government dollars and wildly successful cash for clunkers…
Friday 25 November
With 18,000 taxis on Hong Kong’s roads, this is a city in which you’ll never have to wait more than a few minutes to find one.
Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's Me and My Motorcade, Taiwanese and Chinese students rise above old rivalries, and Dehli's High Court turns digital.
What'll happen to our cities in the coming year. Japan wil have more trees, Mumbai will have more high-rises and Portugal will get its first "smart city".
The substantial motorcade of the 'humble' Ugandan president, Norway looks to turn Quatar's desert green and a new bridge betwen Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Monday 13 May
Technical innovation, artistic acumen and an improving economy: it's a good time to think about setting up home in Japan.
Monday 12 March
I hope I’m not alone in having a childish, churlish, fairly instant dislike of anything designated “the next big thing”.
Friday 27 November
Cross an Indian street and it probably won’t be news to you that car sales on the Subcontinent are booming here.
Monday 25 June
The votes have been cast, the numbers have been added up and the results are in. No, not the outcome of an election but the latest ranking of hit consumer products in Japan.
Monday 28 May
At the end of a long week spent working on Monocle’s upcoming Quality of Life issue, I decide to improve the quality of my life by taking myself off to Ginza to seek out the perfect bar.
The lavish motorcade of Kenya's president, the new jet-set of Nigeria, and an old banknote for West Africa returns.
The world is going electric in a bid to combat environmental change and energy dependency. For once this Christmas, batteries are included.
The motorcade of the Greek prime minister plus reports on growing marijuana in Spain and spuds in Ireland.
Mitsuoka makes models based on classic cars and it works unlike most other automakers in that every car is handmade in its workshop in Toyama. This gives it the edge in an industry that’s lifting itself out of the doldrums…
Monocle looks t James Michel, president of the Seychelles, and his motorcade, plus Malawi's new flag and Zanzibar's model way of dealing with political strife.
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