Japan's Nidec Posts Higher Third-Quarter Operating Profit. By Reuters | Jan. 23, 2025. ... Nidec announced a 257-billion-yen unsolicited bid for machine tool maker Makino Milling Machine in December.

By the summer of 2023, only about 30 percent of drink vending machines could accept the 500 yen coins introduced in 2021, according to the Sankei Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper.

Japan's vending machine culture is ahead of the curve. ... TOKYO -- When I was a child, growing up in England, just about the only coin-operated machines were for bars of milk chocolate.