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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Argentina President Mauricio Macri agreed Monday to speed up negotiations for a bilateral investment accord as part of efforts to strengthen economic ties. In a meeting in Buenos Aires, Abe and Macri also called for deepening exchanges at the leader and ministerial levels and affirmed ...
U.S.-affiliated insurance firm AIG Japan Holdings K.K. and wearable robot maker Cyberdyne Inc. have formed a business alliance in the nonlife insurance business. Under the tie-up deal announced Monday, the unit of New York-based American International Group Inc. and Cyberdyne will develop and sell nonlife insurance products for users of ...
The Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, is calling on the government to take measures to allow more foreign nationals to work in Japan in fields involving research and development as well as to ease labor shortages. In its policy proposal made Monday, the nation’s biggest business lobby specifically sought relaxed ...
Stocks recouped earlier losses and closed higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Tuesday, as investors were relieved by the lack of major damage from a powerful earthquake in northeastern Japan the same day. The 225-issue Nikkei average gained 56.92 points, or 0.31 percent, to close at 18,162.94, hitting its highest ...
Subaru, a tiny, conservative Japanese brand, is about to build a big, brash, American-style SUV. It’s either an exercise in kaizen — slow, steady improvement — or a complete loss of cool. To be sure, the market is there. Americans are ditching their sedans for SUVs at a dizzying pace. ...
An international conservation group has set the 2017 catch quota of bluefin tuna in the western Atlantic Ocean at 2,000 tons, unchanged from the current level, Japan’s Fisheries Agency said Tuesday. Japan’s current allocation of about 346 tons will be maintained under the decision made at the annual weeklong meeting ...
A retailer in northern Japan has come up with a product it hopes will help turn around the country’s declining appetite for rice: several varieties of the staple sold in PET bottles to appeal to young people. More than 30 brands are on offer, including the popular Hitomebore and Akitakomachi ...
Donald Trump said Monday he would move to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal the day he takes office, in line with a central campaign pledge. “I’ve asked my transition team to develop a list of executive actions we can take on day one to restore our ...
Canada will shutter its coal-fired power plants by 2030 as part of its strategy to cut greenhouse gas emission under the Paris climate accord, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna announced Monday. The plants, located in four provinces, produce about 10 percent of Canada’s total CO2 emissions, and closing them will remove ...
The hard-eyed view along the Tug Fork River in West Virginia coal country is that President-elect Donald Trump has something to prove: that he’ll help bring back Appalachian mining, as he promised time and again on the campaign trail. Nobody thinks he can revive it entirely — not economists, not ...
Authorities on Monday defended their decision to douse protesters with water during a skirmish in subfreezing weather near the Dakota Access oil pipeline, and organizers said at least 17 protesters were taken to the hospital — including some who were treated for hypothermia. Protesters trying to push past a long-blocked ...
A union representing pilots at Germany airline Lufthansa says it’s going on strike in a long-running dispute over pay. The Cockpit union said Monday that pilots of all short- and long-haul flights out of Germany will go on strike all of Wednesday. The union says Lufthansa has been posting “very ...
China’s Anbang Insurance Group Co is in talks to buy as much as $2.3 billion in Japanese residential property assets from Blackstone Group , two people involved in the discussions said, in what would be Japan’s biggest property deal since the global financial crisis. The U.S. asset manager is discussing ...
The dollar temporarily rose above ¥111 in Tokyo trading Monday, retaking the line for the first time since March 31 as long-term U.S. interest rates inched up. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥110.90-91, up from ¥110.69-70 at the same time Friday. The euro was at $1.0630-0630, up from ...
The benchmark Nikkei average closed above 18,000 for the first time in more than 10 months Monday, thanks to brisk purchases backed by the yen’s decline. The 225-issue Nikkei average climbed 138.61 points, or 0.77 percent, to end at 18,106.02 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, its highest finish since 18,191.32 ...
A Bank of Japan policymaker on Monday voiced fears that the uncertainty created by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s economic policies will negatively impact the financial markets. “I am particularly concerned about the risks that global financial markets will experience sudden changes against a backdrop of growing uncertainties over overseas economies,” ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government is pushing for a greater role for fiscal policy next year, according to draft guidelines for the 2017 budget seen by Bloomberg. The government handed the document for Japan’s initial budget for the fiscal year starting in April to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on ...
New technological innovations have a tendency to create new business opportunities, and the latest craze, virtual reality, is no exception. With the debut of cutting-edge VR headsets this year, many firms from video game makers, 360-degree-video distributors, arcade operators and cellphone carriers are gearing up to position themselves ahead of ...
In June, hundreds of people thronged a small virtual reality event in Tokyo’s Akihabara district, forcing the organizer to cancel it halfway through. What drew such a big crowd so quickly? A VR-based porn demonstration. “It was unexpected,” said Kento Yoshida, head of the group that organized the event. “But ...
Japan posted a trade surplus for a second straight month in October, according to data released by the Finance Ministry on Monday. The surplus was driven by a continued decline in the value of imports, which have fallen faster than exports. Exports fell 10.3 percent in October from a year ...
For game lovers, 2016 is likely to be remembered as the year when virtual reality technology, having become widely affordable, began to take over. With the much-anticipated commercial debut of VR headsets, gamers are taking a significant step toward total sensory immersion in the world beyond the screen. But many ...