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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Yes, you could call it free money. But that doesn’t mean all Alaskans are happy about the $1,022 dividend checks nearly every resident will receive starting Thursday from the state’s oil wealth fund. Folks were looking at getting more than twice that amount. “It’s really putting the hurt on my ...
Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., the world’s biggest maker of giant excavators, has offered 689 million Australian dollars ($529 million) to buy Australia’s Bradken Ltd. The purchase would be its biggest ever and is likely to boost profit by about 10 percent, Nomura Securities Co. said. The Tokyo-based company said Monday ...
The New York attorney general’s office has ordered the Trump Foundation to immediately stop fundraising in the state, saying it isn’t registered to do so. James Sheehan, head of the attorney general’s Charities Bureau, wrote in a letter dated Friday that the failure to stop immediately and answer demands for ...
The global conference that governs wildlife trade voted Monday against strengthening the ban on ivory sales, exposing bitter divisions among African countries and experts over elephant conservation. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) rejected a proposal to include all African elephants in its highest category of protection, ...
The dollar was firmer around ¥101.40 in Tokyo trading Monday, buoyed by rising stock prices and receding concerns about the deterioration of Deutsche Bank’s financial health. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥101.38-39, up from ¥100.88-88 at the same time Friday. The euro was at $1.1229-1229, up from $1.1184-1186, ...
A new robot for lonely people made by Toyota Motor Corp. can do little other than chatter in a high-pitched voice. The ¥39,800, 10-cm-tall, doll-like Kirobo Mini — whose name comes from kibo (hope) and robot — supposedly has the smarts of a 5-year-old. Its value, according to general manager ...
A trans-island express train painted in the same colors as a limited express run by Japan’s Tobu Railway Co. is up and running in Taiwan. The train, a Tze-Chiang Limited Express, is painted in the same gold, black and vermilion as the Nikko Moude Spacia express train operated by Tobu ...
India, which accounts for about 4.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, ratified the Paris climate change agreement Sunday at the United Nations, officials said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet had given its approval Wednesday to ratify the Paris agreement on Oct. 2, coinciding with the birth anniversary of India’s ...
In deciding to target bond yields, Japan is deploying a monetary strategy to combat deflation used by its former enemy in World War II. The trouble is that America’s experience back then suggests the tactics probably won’t work on their own. Economists who have studied that period say it was ...
Lombard Street, the scenic San Francisco thoroughfare known as the “Crookedest Street in the World,” has become so thronged with gawkers that residents say it feels more like an overcrowded amusement park than a residential road. Cars waiting to drive down the 600-foot-long street often stretch back for three blocks. ...
The United Nations on Sunday called for the shutdown of all legal domestic ivory markets as it looks to combat poaching and put pressure on countries that continue to trade in elephant tusks. Member states of the U.N.’s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, known as CITES, agreed on ...
Stocks turned higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday, with investor sentiment brightened by a rebound on Wall Street in last week’s final session. The 225-issue Nikkei average rose 148.83 points, or 0.90 percent, to close at 16,598.67. On Friday, the key market gauge tumbled 243.87 points. The Topix ...
Business confidence at Japan’s largest manufacturers has sunk to its weakest level since Tokyo launched measures to kick-start the tepid economy more than three years ago, the central bank said in its quarterly sentiment survey Monday. The Bank of Japan’s closely watched tankan report comes after GDP barely grew in ...
A number of top firms held ceremonies Monday to give university students and graduates informal employment offers next spring. Many companies began their ceremonies Monday after being green-lighted to issue the informal offers starting Saturday. At Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.’s ceremony in Tokyo, President Takeshi Kunibe noted that circumstances surrounding ...
Department store operator Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd. on Friday opened a small outlet in Paris to sell Japanese confectioneries and sundry goods. Previously, Isetan Mitsukoshi ran an outlet that catered mainly to Japanese visiting Europe. This shop, on the ground floor of Maison de la Culture du Japan in western ...
Apple Inc. is in negotiations with Sharp Corp. to secure organic LED displays for the iPhone maker’s next generation of devices, according to a person familiar with the matter. Any supply pact for organic light-emitting diode displays, would hinge on the Osaka-based firm’s output capacity, said the person, who asked ...
Regional banks welcomed another player to the sector Monday after two lenders in Kyushu merged to become Nishi-Nippon Financial Holdings Inc. The Fukuoka-based company is the result of a tie-up between Nishi-Nippon City Bank and Bank of Nagasaki. Regional banks nationwide are under pressure to consolidate as they compete for ...
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda has ruined his chances of getting a second full term, according to Nobuyuki Nakahara, who has advised the prime minister on the economy and was an intellectual father of the BOJ’s first run at quantitative easing in 2001. The central bank’s switch to yield-curve ...
Germany’s top executives voiced confidence in Deutsche Bank on Sunday, after fears over the lender’s financial health saw shares plummet to a record low. Speaking to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, the heads of some of Germany’s biggest companies, including Siemens, Daimler and Munich Re, said the drama of the past ...
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. has told customers that delivery of the new Mitsubishi Regional Jet might be delayed for a fifth time starting in mid-2018, sources said. The subsidiary owned 64 percent by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. might delay initial delivery of Japan’s first domestically produced passenger jet because of technical ...
A high-profile Google event Tuesday is widely expected to highlight a new emphasis on hardware, challenging rivals Apple and Amazon and launching a new strategy for the online giant. While the company has offered no official preview, it is expected to unveil a new line of Google-branded smartphones, a tablet ...