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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Households and companies continue to hold onto cash rather than spending or investing it, highlighting the ongoing challenge to revitalize the economy. Households held ¥920 trillion ($9.1 trillion) of their assets in cash or deposits at the end of the quarter through June, the second-highest level on record, a report ...
The industry ministry plans to form a market for trading environmental values of electricity generation using renewable sources and nuclear power in an effort to cut carbon dioxide emissions, officials said. The market will enable power companies as well as households with solar panels to buy and sell environmental values ...
Recap: The US Federal Reserve's less-hawkish view on the pace of interest-rate increases, coupled with policy tweaks by the Bank of Japan, buoyed global stock markets last week. The Thai bourse tracked global movements before profit-taking set in on Friday, while a huge tender offer for Jasmine International (JAS) shares ...
Snapchat, the service for messages that vanish, announced Saturday it will launch a line of video-catching sunglasses, a spin on the Glass eyewear abandoned by Google more than a year ago. The California-based company, which also announced it is changing its name to Snap Inc., said in an online post ...
The industry ministry plans to form a market for trading environmental values of electricity generation using renewable sources and nuclear power in an effort to cut carbon dioxide emissions, officials said. The market will enable power companies as well as households with solar panels to buy and sell environmental values ...
Yahoo Japan Corp. is considering introducing a four-day workweek for all its 5,800 employees, sources have revealed. The subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp. plans to implement the system in stages over several years, but wages under the new system have not been determined, the sources said Saturday. The system is ...
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said Sunday that his counterparts in the Group of Seven developed nations welcomed U.S. guidelines on regulating self-driving cars and have agreed to work together on creating such standards to maintain safety. “There was actually a very enthusiastic reception to the policy,” he said. “We ...
If a foreign government is behind the massive computer attack that compromised a half billion user accounts at Yahoo, as the company says, the breach could be part of a long-term strategy that is aimed at gathering intelligence rather than getting rich. Yahoo says the breach involved users’ email addresses, ...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang called Friday for strong relations with Canada as he wrapped up a three-day visit to the important trading partner. “We have no excuses,” Li told a Canadian-Chinese business council in Montreal. “China and Canada must have win-win cooperation.” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Li announced ...
Until all the various players in the industry work together for a solution, internet concert ticket resellers will continue doing a roaring trade. The post Without concerted effort from Japan’s industry players, online scalping looks unstoppable appeared first on The Japan Times.
Dentsu Inc. said it will pay an estimated ¥230 million back to customers, including Toyota Motor Corp., that it overcharged for internet advertisements in a case likely to stoke concern that digital media transactions have lacked transparency. The nation’s largest ad agency investigated transactions going back as far as November ...
Yahoo on Friday faced pointed questions about exactly when it learned about a cyberattack that exposed the email credentials of 500 million users, a critical issue for the company as it seeks to prevent the breach from affecting a pending takeover by Verizon Inc. The internet company has so far ...
Japan and the European Union plan to discuss key farming products separately from other goods in negotiations on a proposed economic partnership agreement for free trade, sources said Friday. Japan wants tariffs on the five products — rice, wheat, beef and pork, dairy products and sweetening products such as sugar ...
Hundreds of Takata Corp. air bag inflators pulled from cars in the auto industry’s biggest-ever recall later ruptured in testing, showing the potential risks to drivers. The post U.S. road safety body says hundreds of recalled Takata air bag parts ruptured in testing appeared first on The Japan Times.
Japan plans to rush through a bill to provide more financial muscle for its companies to compete for global energy assets, just as other resource-hungry Asian economies such as China and India are also looking to snap up depressed oil assets. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet intends to revise a ...
Kansai International Airport, the main international gateway to the Kansai region, will start accepting China’s Alipay payment service at almost all of its shops in late October, operator Kansai Airports said Friday. The widely accepted smartphone payment platform in China was made available at eight outlets in the airport’s departure ...
Regulators are considering taking action against Apple Inc. over possible antitrust violations that may have helped it dominate Japan’s smartphone sales, government sources said, a move that could damage the company’s profit margins in one of its most profitable markets. In a report published last month, the Fair Trade Commission ...
Yahoo Japan Corp. said Friday no customer information was leaked from the company and no damage has been confirmed after hackers stole sensitive information from at least 500 million Yahoo accounts. The startling breach, disclosed Thursday, is believed to be the largest to hit a single email provider. Stolen information ...
The dollar hit a one-month low below ¥101 in Tokyo trading on Friday, losing ground after the U.S. Federal Reserve stopped short of carrying out an interest rate increase at its latest policy-setting meeting. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥100.99-101.00, down from ¥101.80-82 at the same time Wednesday, ...
Ad giant Dentsu discloses that it overcharged clients by an estimated ¥230 million for internet ads, casting doubt on the transparency of digital media transactions. The post Dentsu internal probe reveals ad overcharges going back to 2012 appeared first on The Japan Times.
Sony Corp. will on Saturday open the doors to its new store in Tokyo’s bustling Ginza district. After closing its flagship store in the Sony Building last month to make way for a rebuild, the new store forms part of the newly completed Ginza Place, which opens the same day. ...