Akebono to close Elizabethtown brake plant, lay off 450 workers by year-end. Company cites decline in U.S. business and implements permanent workforce reduction. Closure follows 2023 decision to ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Hundreds of people are set to lose their jobs in Elizabethtown. The Akebono Brake plant will fully shut down, leaving about 450 workers out of a job. The Japanese company said ...

Akebono Engineering Center in Farmington Hills will lay off 48 people. The layoffs are expected to be permanent. The company lists declining U.S. business as a reason for the job cuts. Japanese brake ...

Japanese brake maker Akebono Brake Corp. is letting go of 48 people employed at its Akebono Engineering Center in Farmington Hills in a move that is expected to be permanent, the company said in ...

Paula Wethington is a digital producer at CBS Detroit. She previously held digital content roles at NEWSnet, Gannett/USA Today network and The Monroe News in Michigan. She is a graduate of the ...

FARMINGTON HILLS, MI — Michigan-based Akebono Brake Corp. is to lay off 53 employees. The layoffs will affect 48 employees at the Akebono Engineering Center located at 34385 W. Twelve Mile Road in ...

Akebono, known for his accomplishments both in sumo wrestling and later professional wrestling, has passed away. Japanese media announced on Wednesday that Akebono had died of heart failure at 54 ...

All Japan Pro Wrestling held their Champion Carnival press conference to introduce this year’s 18-man line-up in Idabashi, Tokyo on Wednesday afternoon, just 650 yards away from Korakuen Hall. The ...

Lumberingly, he paced to the centre of the ring, then back to his corner again. Several times he did this, flexing his arms. Then he squatted, and fixed his opponent with his stare. That stare, of ...

Sumo wrestling fans are mourning a former native of Hawaii who was the first foreigner to attain the highest ranking in Japan's national sport. Akebono died of heart failure in a Tokyo hospital this ...