Tokyo / AP Mitsubishi Motors is giving 100,000 yen ($960) to each Japanese owner of its car as a compensation for inflated mileage and extra gas costs. The Japanese automaker said Friday it will take a 50 billion yen ($913 million) charge to cover mileage-rigging expenses, including for the eK minicar models sold in Japan since 2013, and also ...

  Tokyo/ bloomberg Siemens and Gamesa Corp. Tecnologica agreed to combine their wind-turbine manufacturing businesses, creating a company that will dominate the industry and speed up consolidation triggered by competition and price pressures. Europe’s largest engineering company will own 59 percent of the capital of the new business, Gamesa said in a statement on its website. Gamesa, based in Zamudio, ...

  WASHINGTON / AP State Department officials shook up America’s generally obedient diplomatic establishment this week with an internal memo urging US military action against Syria’s government with the goal of pressing President Bashar Assad to accept a cease-fire and gaining the upper hand on him in future talks on a political transition. Reasons abound for why an intervention is ...