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...General Motors, elected to pull out last June, leaving the plant unprofitable, Toyota says. "After the decision by General Motors to withdraw from the NUMMI joint venture, Toyota conducted a thorough review of its alternatives in light of current and anticipated market conditions," says TMC executive vice president Atsushi Niimi. "Based on this review, we have determined that over the mid-to-long term, it just would not be economically viable to continue the production contract with NUMMI." (See the most exciting cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Auto Plant in California Shut by Toyota | 8/28/2009 | See Source »

...bring their visions horrifically to life. Japanese need no reminder of Aum Shinrikyo, the cult that staged a deadly chemical gas attack on commuters in Tokyo's subway system seven years ago, allegedly masterminded by Aum's Shoko Asahara. Last week, one of Asahara's top henchmen, Tomomitsu Niimi, became the eighth Aum member to be sentenced to death in connection with the chemical attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cult Shock | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

Japanese police today arrested the security chief of thecultsuspected inlast month's nerve gas attackon the Tokyo subway system that killed 11 people. Tomomitsu Niimi, 31, was charged with kidnapping a 29-year-old woman who says he drugged her and kept her in a freight container for three months because she was trying to leave the Aum Shinrikyo cult. In a Moscow court yesterday, a teenager who once belonged to the cult said the sect had tested nerve gas on its Russian followers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOP CULT MEMBER ARRESTED | 4/12/1995 | See Source »

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