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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Saudi Arabia and its allies are warning that U.S. legislation allowing the kingdom to be sued for the 9/11 attacks will have negative repercussions. The kingdom maintains an arsenal of tools to retaliate with, including curtailing official contacts, pulling billions of dollars from the U.S. economy, and persuading its close ...
Incidents of unruly passengers on planes are increasing, and more effective deterrents are needed to tackle the problem, a global airline trade group said Wednesday. There were 10,854 air rage incidents reported by airlines worldwide last year, up from 9,316 incidents in 2014, according to the International Air Transport Association. ...
Hitachi Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. are considering integrating their nuclear fuel businesses next spring, sources said Thursday. The three companies’ nuclear businesses have been in the doldrums since the 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 atomic power plant. The integration of their fuel businesses would ...
Source: UN Security Council Country: Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, South Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, World, YemenBan Ki-moon stressed that international law is clear that medical workers, facilities and transports must be protected and the wounded and sick, civilians and fighters alike, must be spared.SC/12536 Security Council 7779th Meeting (AM) Speakers Urge Appointment of Special Representative ...
A joint venture involving Japan's Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co opened a new factory in Thailand on Wednesday to produce medical foods, which are nutritional products developed specifically for the dietary management of disease.
Japan’s automobile production rose 9.2 percent in August from a year earlier to 621,349 vehicles, data released by eight major carmakers showed Wednesday, indicating many have fully recovered from disruptions caused by earthquakes this spring. Domestic production at Japan’s top three automakers — Toyota Motor Corp., Nissan Motor Co. and ...
The average earnings of private-sector workers in Japan in 2015 increased ¥54,000 from the preceding year to ¥4,204,000, up for the third year in a row, the National Tax Agency said in a survey report Wednesday. The increase apparently reflected improvements in the employment situation, such as an increase in ...
Hate standing in line at your favorite restaurant? Carmaker Nissan claims to have just the thing for those sore legs. A company video released Tuesday re-enacts a busy restaurant with patrons waiting outside. They’re all sitting in a row of chairs but they won’t have to stand when the next ...
The dollar climbed to levels near ¥100.80 in Tokyo trading late Wednesday, on the back of euro selling against the U.S. unit. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥100.74-76, up from ¥100.53-54 at the same time Tuesday. The euro was at $1.1191-1193, down from $1.1248-1248, and at ¥112.76-77, down ...
Environment minister Koichi Yamamoto is urging the planners of a wind development project on the northern island of Hokkaido to scale back the operation out of concern for how the plan would affect rare birds found in the area. Tokyo-based Eurus Energy Holdings Corp., along with Wakkanai Green Factory Co., ...
The government will tighten taxation rules on dummy companies set up in foreign countries with low corporate tax rates in order to prevent tax avoidance, government sources said. The new taxation rules call for imposing the nation’s corporate tax rate on dummy corporations overseas regardless of tax rates adopted by ...
Uber, which has struggled to win Japan over to its ride-sharing service, is hoping to fare better with takeout deliveries. UberEats opens Thursday, initially just in central Tokyo, ranging from simple dishes costing just hundreds of yen to Michelin-star dining at the equivalent of hundreds of dollars. Delivery is free ...
Stocks fell back sharply on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday, reflecting the weakness of financial issues and an ex-dividend impact. The 225-issue Nikkei average plunged 218.53 points, or 1.31 percent, to end at 16,465.40. On Tuesday, the key market gauge climbed 139.37 points. The Topix index of all first-section issues ...
Toshiba Corp. raised its forecast for first-half operating profit to ¥70 billion from ¥30 billion, crediting growth in storage and electronic devices for a more than doubling of its earnings outlook. A weaker-than-expected yen and sales of hard drives and smartphone memory are the main factors, the company said in ...
On a recent weekday morning, the Sogo department store in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, is unusually crowded with shoppers flocking to a closing down sale before it shuts its doors for good on Friday. Many stop to take pictures of a sign at the entrance displaying the number of days remaining ...
A public-private council is proposing that a 3,500-meter-long runway be added at Narita International Airport. The new runway was part of plans adopted at a meeting of the council Tuesday in the city of Chiba that brought together officials from the central government, Narita International Airport Corp., or NAA, the ...
Trade, that lifeblood of the world economy, is growing at its slowest rate in seven years and could falter even more should anti-globalization sentiment encourage governments to throw up more barriers. That’s the verdict from the World Trade Organization, which dramatically slashed its forecast for trade growth this year by ...
The cornerstone of President Barack Obama’s drive to fight global warming underwent close scrutiny Tuesday in a high-stakes day in court. The so-called Clean Power Plan, approved last year, sets state-by-state emissions targets for existing power plants and aims to reduce America’s output of carbon dioxide by nearly a third ...
SpaceX chief Elon Musk on Tuesday unveiled ambitious plans to establish a Mars colony by sending 100 humans at a time on massive spacecraft, possibly costing as little as $100,000 per person. Taking the stage under a large globe of Mars at the International Astronautical Congress, Musk showed his vision ...
Japan ranks eighth in the World Economic Forum’s annual global competitiveness rankings covering 138 countries and regions, down from the previous year’s sixth, the WEF said Wednesday. Japan’s overall competitive performance were dragged down by lower evaluations on innovation and higher education, according to the Swiss think tank that organizes ...
New Cathay Japan boss Cathay Pacific recently appointed Lionel Kwok as general manager of the Hong Kong-based airline’s Japan office. Kwok assumed his new position from Sept. 19. Born in 1964 in Hong Kong, Kwok joined Cathay Pacific in 1987 after graduating from the University of Hong Kong. Serving as ...