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Vai alla Scheda Paese »That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Toyota Motor Corp. said it aims to develop a new, more advanced electric car battery “in a few years” that will allow it to improve driving range and battery life by up to 15 percent. Such performance-enhanced lithium-ion battery technology will likely enable all its electrified vehicles to be improved, ...
The Asian Development Bank has appointed Yasuyuki Sawada, a professor at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Economics, as its chief economist. Sawada, who holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Master’s in International Development Policy from Stanford University, will be the first Japanese to take up the position since ...
Despite Nissan Motor Co.’s decision to keep automotive production in Britain after its exit from the European Union, industry experts have mixed views over whether other Japanese carmakers will follow suit. Experts interviewed are unsure how freely British firms will be able to trade in cars and automotive components with ...
The controversy over drilling for oil in the Atlantic Ocean has been reignited by the election of Donald Trump, and environmentalists and coastal businesses say it could be the first major fault line that divides them from the new president. The Obama administration has moved to restrict access to offshore ...
Businesses around the country on Wednesday cheered a court decision blocking the Obama administration’s sweeping new overtime rules, but many had already raised salaries or ordered managers to stick to a strict 40-hour workweek to avoid costs they expected to incur starting next week. An injunction issued Tuesday by the ...
An experimental treatment for Alzheimer’s failed again in a widely anticipated study, disappointing many who had hoped Eli Lilly had finally found a way to slow the progression of the mind-robbing disease. The drug did not work better than a placebo treatment in a study of 2,100 people with mild ...
Vietnam’s National Assembly has voted to abandon plans to build two nuclear power plants with Russia and Japan, after officials cited lower demand forecasts, rising costs and safety concerns. The vote Tuesday to scrap the country’s first atomic energy project deals a blow to the global nuclear business and to ...
President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership but other Pacific Rim leaders are vowing to push market-opening efforts they say are vital for growth. The possible decline of the 12-nation TPP could give a boost to alternative initiatives including one promoted by China in ...
Pilots for a cargo airline that carries packages for Amazon and DHL went on strike Tuesday, potentially causing delivery delays just as the holiday shopping season swings into high gear. The airline, ABX Air, said it would seek a court order to end the strike by about 250 pilots. The ...
President-elect Donald Trump’s charity has admitted that it violated IRS regulations barring it from using its money or assets to benefit Trump, his family, his companies or substantial contributors to the foundation. According to a 2015 tax return posted on the nonprofit monitoring website GuideStar, the Donald J. Trump Foundation ...
Facebook has built a tool for geographically censoring posts at the leading social network as it seeks a path back into China, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. The New York Times cited three current and former Facebook employees, who asked for anonymity, as saying that the tool could ...
With U.S. President-elect Donald Trump pledging to kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s pro-growth Abenomics campaign is on the ropes. Many analysts say that whether or not the TPP is saved, Abe’s job remains unchanged: continue working to bolster free trade with other major economies, such ...
Nissan is selling its stake in the auto parts company Calsonic Kansei as it casts off noncore businesses to focus on electric vehicles and self-driving cars. The automaker is hiving off its 41 percent stake to the U.S. buyout firm KKR, which is buying the Japan-based Calsonic in a deal ...
The Financial Times is in talks to buy companies that strengthen its digital subscription business as the newspaper capitalizes on greater financial support from its new owner, Japan’s Nikkei Inc., FT Chief Executive Officer John Ridding said. The publisher is hunting for companies that can “support and accelerate our growth ...
President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement to make it “a lot better” for U.S. workers would not be a one-way street for his administration, as Canada and Mexico prepare their own list of demands that could require difficult U.S. concessions. The 22-year-old NAFTA and ...
Wall Street’s post-election rally forged ever higher Tuesday, with the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average finishing above 19,000 for the first time while stock indexes across the globe also rose. The Dow finished up 0.4 percent while the broader S&P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq likewise had record finishes, gaining 0.2 ...
An industry-backed autonomous car lobbying group on Tuesday urged U.S. regulators to go further to remove speed bumps than what was laid out in guidelines published two months ago. In a letter to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a Self-Driving Coalition founded early this year by Google, Ford, Volvo, ...
Hundreds of capitalistic markets, each with thousands of stalls, form the glue that holds North Korea’s socialist planned economy together, say defectors who sold medicinal herbs, skinny jeans, TV sets, foreign drama CDs and other goods there to make a living. “People there say North Korean markets have everything except ...
The dollar traded firmly around ¥111 in Tokyo late Tuesday after overcoming risk-averse selling triggered by a magnitude-7.4 earthquake off Fukushima Prefecture in the early morning. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥110.91-92, compared with ¥110.90-91 at the same time Monday. The euro was at $1.0618-0618, down from $1.0630-0630, ...
Takata Corp. has homed in on bids from Autoliv Inc. and Key Safety Systems Inc. as the air bag maker behind the biggest auto safety recall ever progresses toward a final round of negotiating a sale, according to people familiar with the matter. The two bidders gained an edge because ...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says he will withdraw his country from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact on the day he takes office, dealing another blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The post Trump to dump TPP on first day in office appeared first on The Japan Times.