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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Does “Pokemon Go” have a second act? The mobile phone app was an instant hit when it debuted in July. Crowds stampeded after a Vaporeon in Central Park and people fell off cliffs playing it in California. At an Apple event on Sept. 7, Niantic CEO John Hanke said 500 ...
Takata Corp. and some of the world’s biggest carmakers face an extensive, expensive to-do list as they try to resolve the worst safety crisis in the auto industry’s history. Executives for the Tokyo-based maker of air bags are scheduled to meet in Japan with Honda Motor Co. and officials from ...
Developing economies in Asia are holding steady and will grow at the earlier forecast rate of 5.7 percent this year and next, buoyed by resilience in the region’s two largest economies, China and India, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday. The region’s developing economies grew 5.9 percent in 2015, and ...
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp.’s new passenger jet arrived in Russia’s Far East on Tuesday morning, en route to the United States for certification testing, the company said. The Mitsubishi Regional Jet, Japan’s first home-grown commercial passenger jet, landed at an airport on the Kamchatka Peninsula. It earlier touched down on Monday ...
The World Trade Organization dramatically slashed its forecast for trade growth this year by about a third to its lowest rate since 2009, when the global economy was mired in recession in the wake of the financial crisis. In an update to its forecasts Tuesday, the world’s leading trade body ...
The infrastructure ministry met with about 120 companies and organizations to discuss how to facilitate investment in Africa as Japan steps up efforts to build infrastructure in the resource-rich continent. The meeting Tuesday was the first of several to be held each year with construction companies, trading houses, manufacturers, and ...
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., the Chiba Prefectural ...
The dollar rose on anticipation that Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton will become the next U.S. president, in Tokyo trading on Tuesday, but it then lost steam after approaching ¥101. At 5 p.m., it stood at ¥100.53-54, down from ¥100.65-69 at the same time Monday. The euro was at $1.1248-1248, ...
MetLife Inc. said its Japanese business will offer early retirement packages to some staff as the insurer consolidates operations in Tokyo to help counter pressure from low bond yields. Nonsales employees who are 45 or older and have been with the insurer for at least three years will get as ...
Stocks bounced back on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday, aided by buying aimed at securing rights to midterm dividends amid a halt to the yen’s strengthening versus the dollar. The Nikkei average rose 139.37 points, or 0.84 percent, to end at 16,683.93. On Monday, it dropped 209.46 points. The ...
The United States moved to tighten the economic noose around North Korea Monday, charging and sanctioning a firm owned by a prominent Chinese businesswoman for extensive trade ties with the regime. In a move designed to choke off North Korea’s external economic lifeline, the U.S. government targeted 44-year-old Ma Xiaohong ...
Does “Pokemon Go” have a second act? The mobile phone app was an instant hit when it debuted in July. Crowds stampeded after a Vaporeon in Central Park and people fell off cliffs playing it in California. At an Apple event on Sept. 7, Niantic CEO John Hanke said 500 ...
Two lawsuits ended in jury verdicts worth $127 million. Two others were tossed out by a judge who said there wasn’t reliable evidence that the talc in Johnson & Johnson’s iconic baby powder causes ovarian cancer. So who’s right? And is baby powder safe? Most research finds no link or ...
In this flat, windy expanse just south of the Canadian border, U.S. Air Force pilots fly the same bombers their grandfathers flew, using mid-20th century cables and pulleys. Each spring, the airmen and airwomen must clear melting snow from the steel and concrete doors of the silos that house 150 ...
A Mitsubishi Regional Jet left Nagoya Airport for the United States on Monday to complete flight tests that were pre-empted twice about a month ago by problems with its air-conditioning system. Mired in development delays, the MRJ, intended to be the nation’s first domestically produced passenger jet, left Nagoya at ...
Stocks lost further ground Monday, pushed down by selling energized by the yen’s firming against the dollar. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 209.46 points, or 1.25 percent, to end at 16,544.56 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. On Friday, the key market gauge gave up 53.60 points. The Topix index of ...
The dollar eased below ¥100.70 in late Tokyo trading Monday as fresh incentives proved scarce following last week’s policy meetings by the Japanese and U.S. central banks. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥100.65-69, down from ¥100.99-101.00 at the same time Friday. The euro was at $1.1230-1234, up from ...
A bitcoin startup plans to join Japan’s growing ranks of power utilities and accept the cryptocurrency as payment for electricity charges, promising bills four to six percent cheaper than the competition. ResuPress Inc., a Tokyo-based startup that runs a bitcoin exchange and storage service known as Coincheck, said it will ...
The Cabinet on Monday adopted a bill that will allow the central government to make unsolicited loans for building Central Japan Railway Co.’s high-speed maglev line. The government hopes the bill will help get the nation’s first line for magnetically levitated trains running up to eight years ahead of the ...
A former coal-mining town in Hokkaido is taking unprecedented measures to combat its biggest challenge: a devastating shrinking of its population. Its success could decide the future for hundreds of other local governments waging the same battle for survival. Since its peak in the post-war economic boom of the 1960s, ...
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said Monday he will loosen the central bank’s monetary grip “without hesitation” if conditions make that the sensible thing to do. In a speech in Osaka, Kuroda expressed concern over falling prices as the central bank pursues its 2 percent inflation target. He said ...