Charlotte Cooper

Position: Journalist

Blog Posts

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Japan's Democrats get ready to govern

Close your eyes and it could almost be a minister speaking. Japan's main opposition Democratic Party is gearing up for government after the Aug. 30 election, if a talk by the party's No.2 leader Katsuya Okada is anything to go by.   Full Article 

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Gassing about electric cars

Would you buy a car that only goes 100 miles (160 km) on a tank of fuel? That's the range of Nissan's 5-seater electric car planned for sale in the U.S. and Japan in 2010 -- a similar size to Nissan's ...  Full Article | Comments [14] 

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Expect action in Japanese M&A

After falling off a cliff at the start of this year as the global financial crisis gripped, mergers and acquisitions by Japanese companies overseas are likely to pick up again in the second half of this ...  Full Article | Comments [1]