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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The dollar topped ¥110.50 for the first time in 5½ months in Tokyo Friday, aided by higher U.S. long-term interest rates and growing expectations for an early U.S. interest rate increase. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥110.69-70, up from ¥109.00-01 at the same time Thursday. The euro was ...
The benchmark Nikkei average closed at its highest level in more than 10 months Friday, buoyed by rises in major export-oriented companies on the back of the yen’s weakness. The 225-issue Nikkei average climbed 104.78 points, or 0.59 percent, to 17,967.41 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, its best finish since ...
The Henn na Hotel in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, has been recognized by Guinness World Records as “the first robot-staffed hotel” in the world, according to the chief of the Huis Ten Bosch theme park. “Our hotel will keep on moving with the evolution of robots and artificial intelligence, aiming to ...
Airbus Group SE won an order for 13 Airbus planes valued at about $1.4 billion (about ¥154 billion) at list prices from Japanese budget carrier Peach Aviation Ltd., making inroads in a nation where most aircraft come from Boeing Co. Peach signed an agreement to buy 10 A320neo aircraft and ...
Ministers from 21 Pacific Rim economies pledge to promote free trade in the wake of Donald Trump’s anti-globalism rhetoric. The post APEC vows to promote free trade over protectionism appeared first on The Japan Times.
South Korea has rejected Google’s request to use local mapping data in the company’s global maps service in a highly awaited deliberation that divided the country for months. The land ministry said Friday that concerns about national security outweighed benefits from exporting the country’s mapping data to Google, a unit ...
Donald Trump’s election win has given Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda room to breathe by easing concerns that the yen will strengthen, a former BOJ executive says. The BOJ can remain on hold unless the yen strengthens past 100 against the dollar, a possibility that is “pretty much gone” ...
Abe voiced confidence about Trump as he became the first foreign leader to meet the US president-elect.
Japan’s Prime Minister Shizo Abe is set to become the first foreign leader to meet United States President-elect Donald Trump, since the election last week. Abe said before he departed Tokyo for the United States late on Wednesday that he wanted to build trust and work together for prosperity and ...
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen appears unruffled by incoming President Donald Trump’s victory last week. Her remarks to Congress Thursday suggest that the central bank is on track to raise interest rates at its meeting in December, one month before Trumps takes office. She said she has no plans to ...
The biggest U.S. manufacturer of solar panels is cutting a quarter of its jobs worldwide and will reduce production at its only North American plant. First Solar Inc. said Thursday it will eliminate 450 jobs at its factory near Toledo. A day earlier it said it faced challenging market conditions ...
The last of the 67 charter vessels for the 2016 NZ kiwifruit season - the Asian Lily V27 - left Tauranga yesterday with 2343 pallets of Green kiwifruit, headed for the Japanese ports of Tokyo and Kobe.The 2016 season has broken...
Mazda Motor Corp. plans to launch an electric vehicle in the United States in 2019 as part of its efforts to meet stricter emission standards there, President Masamichi Kogai said. Kogai also revealed in a recent interview that his Hiroshima-based company is considering jointly developing electric motor control technology with ...
Panasonic Corp. said Thursday it will start offering in December a megaphone capable of automatically translating Japanese into English, Chinese and Korean in its latest bid to help companies cope with an increase in foreign visitors to Japan. Panasonic hopes the new translation service can be used in places such ...
The dollar cut its early losses to move around ¥109 in Tokyo late Thursday, drawing buybacks prior to the closely watched meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump later on Thursday. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥109.00-01, still down from ¥109.44-45 at the ...
Apple Inc. has big plans to outfit its next iPhone with vibrant, energy-sipping organic LED displays, seeking to entice consumers with new technology that’s already been embraced by other high-end smartphone makers. The trouble is that the four main suppliers for such components won’t have enough production capacity to make ...
Stocks cut earlier losses to close slightly higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday, underpinned by a stable dollar versus the yen. The 225-issue Nikkei average edged up 0.42 point, or 0.00 percent, to close at 17,862.63. On Wednesday, the key market gauge gained 194.06 points. The Topix index of ...
Gold products worth over ¥4 billion ($36.82 million), including a takoyaki (octopus dumpling) maker, were put on display Thursday at a Takashimaya department store in Osaka. The exhibit will showcase about 1,000 gold products through Monday, including the ¥43.2 million pure gold takoyaki grill that cooks up ball-shaped flour dumplings ...
The Bank of Japan on Thursday announced its first fixed-rate buying operation since the policy’s introduction in September, in a bid to curb surges in interest rates following the victory of Republican Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential race. The BOJ said it would buy an unlimited amount of Japanese ...
Japan’s population is declining, deflation has returned, and the nation’s economy is still stuck in cycle of weak, stop-start growth. And yet, there are a number of hidden and underutilized resources that Japan could tap to try to escape this economic malaise. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ...
On select Canadian farms, thousands of pigs bound for Japan are basking in five-star treatment. Japan’s growing appetite for pricey pork cuts is driving Canadian and U.S. fresh pork exports to record levels, spurring producers to leverage every advantage in the race for market share. While most of the pigs ...