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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Police in northern Germany say a Tesla being driven with its Autopilot system engaged collided with a bus on a highway. But Tesla says the Autopilot was not at fault. Ratzeburg police say that the crash happened Wednesday afternoon on a stretch of autobahn about 50 km (30 miles) east ...
Toyota Motor Corp. has reached a technology partnership agreement with Microsoft Corp. for the 2017 World Rally Championship series, its president said Thursday. Under the accord, Microsoft will assist the Toyota Gazoo racing team in developing a data analysis platform, creating a team information-sharing system and enhancing interaction with fans. ...
Angry lawmakers heaped another round of blistering criticism on Wells Fargo’s CEO, pressing Thursday for details about what senior managers knew about allegedly illegal sales practices and when any concerns were disclosed. Chief Executive John Stumpf, newly stripped of tens of millions in compensation, told the House Financial Services Committee ...
TOKYO - Japan's previously announced plan to relax visa rules for Chinese visitors, aimed partially at increasing the number of repeat arrivals, will take effect on Oct 17, the Foreign Ministry said.
The growth ambitions of China’s insurers could be hindered by some of the companies’ opaque structures when they pursue acquisitions in international markets, a banker at Citigroup Inc. said. “It is not that straightforward with Chinese companies,” Gautam Chawla, co-head of the global insurance group at Citigroup Inc., said Wednesday ...
Popular music streaming service Spotify is trying its luck in Japan, where consumer demand for packaged media such as CDs is traditionally strong and the market for streaming still has huge potential to grow. Visiting Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek announced the company’s foray into Japan on Thursday at ...
The dollar rose to around ¥101.50 in Tokyo on Thursday after OPEC decided to cut oil output for the first time since 2008. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥101.53-53, up from ¥100.74-76 at the same time Wednesday. The euro was at $1.1219-1220, up from $1.1191-1193, and at ¥113.92-92, ...
Stocks turned sharply higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday, backed by gains in resource-related names following a decision by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to cut output. The Nikkei average climbed 228.31 points, or 1.39 percent, to end at 16,693.71. On Wednesday, it tumbled 218.53 points. ...
The nation’s automobile output rose 9.2 percent in August from a year earlier to 621,349 vehicles, data released by eight major carmakers showed Wednesday. The figures suggest recovery after disruptions resulting from devastating earthquakes this spring in Kyushu. Domestic production at Japan’s top three automakers — Toyota Motor Corp., Nissan ...
Railway operator Keikyu Corp. will test a megaphone that purports to make instant audio translations at Haneda Airport International Terminal Station in Tokyo. The Panasonic Corp. loudspeaker will be tested at the station for seven days from Saturday. The station is often thronged with non-Japanese speakers tumbling off red-eye flights. ...
Trade minister Hiroshige Seko has received a letter from a senior European Commission official urging prompt conclusion of an economic partnership agreement, Jiji Press learned Wednesday. “We all have to do our utmost to find a breakthrough so that we can conclude an agreement as soon as possible, if possible ...
The rich and powerful versus the weak and underpaid. That’s how the International Monetary Fund sees Japan’s relationship between employers and workers. Unless more is done to address the problems in the country’s labor market, Japan as a whole will be the loser, according to the IMF’s mission chief for ...
A rush by Australia’s state governments to switch to clean electricity sources could undermine the country’s energy security, the federal government warned Thursday after an entire state lost power. South Australia state lost power on Wednesday as it was lashed by two tornados, thunderstorms and fierce winds that caused traffic ...
(Teleborsa) - Sempre più deboli i consumi in Giappone. Secondo quanto reso noto dal Ministero del Commercio Internazionale e dell'Industria (METI), le vendite al dettaglio sono scese per il...
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., the builder of Japan’s first domestically made passenger jet, said its first test aircraft arrived in the U.S. after two aborted attempts last month, and is ready to start certification testing. The plane arrived at Grant County International Airport at Moses Lake, Washington, at 5:44 p.m. local ...
Japan’s convenience store chains are expanding into Asia as a shrinking domestic market hints at saturation. In 2015, Seven-Eleven Japan Co., Lawson Inc., FamilyMart Co. and Ministop Co. had a total of more than 37,000 stores overseas in Asian. The expansion began when Southland Corp. of the United States, the ...
California State Treasurer John Chiang on Wednesday announced a sweeping suspension of business relationships with Wells Fargo & Co. as punishment for the company’s defrauding of customers. In addition, Chiang vowed to work with the state’s two giant public pension funds to change the management structure at the bank, which ...
Average earnings in the private sector increased ¥54,000 in 2015 from the year before to ¥4,204,000, up for the third year in a row, the National Tax Agency said Wednesday. The increase appears to reflect an improving jobs sector, such as an increase in the ratio of job offers to ...
Troubled air bag maker Takata Corp. is selling its automotive interior trim and seating material operation, raising cash as its inflator recall costs continue to mount. The Japanese company is selling Pontiac, Michigan-based Irvin Automotive Products to Piston Group, an auto parts supplier run by former Detroit Pistons guard Vinnie ...
Virtual reality is on the cusp of becoming mainstream, but one startup in Japan is betting the technology won’t really succeed unless it cracks a critical piece of the puzzle: human eyeballs. Fove Inc. is introducing the world’s first commercially available VR goggles equipped with tiny infrared cameras to follow ...
Strike a light! It’s the end of the household match for Kanematsu-NNK Corp., which will cease production at the end of this fiscal year. The nation’s leading maker of household matches said Tuesday that its sole remaining manufacturing line at a plant in Awaji, Hyogo Prefecture, is now aging and ...