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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Seven-Eleven Japan Co. expects to open thousands of new stores in the U.S., increasing its current tally of 8,500 to 20,000, President Kazuki Furuya said. The unit of Japanese retail giant Seven & I Holdings took full control of 7-Eleven Inc. of the United States in 2005. The U.S. unit ...
The Bank of Japan shifts the focus of its monetary stimulus to controlling the shape of yields across different maturities. The post BOJ shifts policy framework to target Japan’s yield curve appeared first on The Japan Times.
Hitachi Ltd. aims to boost railway-related sales to ¥1 trillion within a few years, Toshiaki Higashihara, president and CEO said. Railways are a growth area for Hitachi. However, speaking at a news conference in Berlin on Tuesday, Higashihara warned against a price war. “Safety, high-quality and trouble-proof performance are of ...
Tokyo Metro Co. is to launch a left-luggage service on a trial basis at Ginza Station in Tokyo in a bid to make shopping easier for tourists. Priced at ¥500 per bag, the company said the service counter will open on a trial basis for 10 days from Wednesday so ...
Japan posted a goods trade deficit of ¥18.71 billion in August for the first red ink in three months, with a firming yen pushing down the value of exports, government data showed Wednesday. The value of exports dropped 9.6 percent from a year earlier to ¥5.32 trillion, down for the ...
A major Japanese business delegation met with Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli on Wednesday to discuss ways to increase economic activities between the two countries, despite heightened political tensions. Zhang welcomed the Japanese business community’s relentless efforts toward contributing to friendly bilateral ties, even at a politically difficult time, when ...
The dollar gave up early gains to trade around ¥101.80 in Tokyo trading late Wednesday, showing wild swings after the Bank of Japan announced a new policy framework aimed at strengthening its monetary easing. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥101.80-82, up from ¥101.68-69 at the same time Tuesday. ...
The key Nikkei average staged a powerful rally on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday, led by financial and export-oriented stocks, following the Bank of Japan’s decision to introduce a target for long-term interest rates. The 225-issue Nikkei average surged 315.47 points, or 1.91 percent, to end at 16,807.62. On Tuesday, ...
The securities watchdog will boost monitoring of health-care stocks for possible insider trading after increasing leaks of information that has the power to move markets, according to the top official of the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission. The SESC will step up scrutiny of trading in pharmaceutical and biotechnology shares ...
The head of pharmaceutical company Mylan is defending the cost for life-saving EpiPens and is signaling the company has no plans to lower prices despite a public outcry. “Price and access exist in a balance, and we believe we have struck that balance,” Heather Bresch says in prepared testimony released ...
Government data released Tuesday showed a stark contrast in the effects that new shinkansen routes have had on land prices in areas along the lines. So-called standard land prices as of July 1, used as a benchmark for land transactions in Japan, went up, as they did last year, in ...
British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday that her country will work to help Japanese companies continue doing business there following its decision to leave the European Union. Trade and investment relations with Japan are very important to Britain, May told her Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, in a meeting ...
Why the country’s policy makers are reviewing an unconventional part of their effort to shake the Japanese economy out of its doldrums.
The nation’s steel makers are set to pay for China’s effort to manage its coal industry as a surge in metallurgical prices flow through to quarterly supply contracts. Spot hard coking coal has more than doubled this year to trade above $205 a metric ton, and the gain will be ...
SoftBank Group Corp. is mulling a manufacturing joint venture in India that could produce the solar panels needed to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s energy targets. “SoftBank’s strategy for India includes solar panel manufacturing,” Manoj Kohli, executive chairman of SB Energy said in an interview in New Delhi. He ruled ...
Tokyo Metro Co. said Tuesday that it will launch a left-luggage service on a trial basis at Ginza Station in Tokyo for tourists from overseas. With the service, the subway operator hopes tourists will enjoy shopping without having to carry around heavy luggage. Tokyo Metro will open a service counter ...
Sales of convenience stores in increased by 0.6 percent in August from a year earlier, up for the third straight month, backed by brisk sales of cold noodles, beverages and other summer items amid relatively hot weather. Same store sales of nine major chains totaled ¥869.4 billion ($8.53 billion), the ...
The dollar moved weakly around ¥101.70 in Tokyo trading on Tuesday, dampened by stocks and dumping by investors in Europe. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥101.68-69, down from ¥101.91-91 at the same time Friday. The euro was at $1.1202-1202, down from $1.1234-1235, at ¥113.91-92, down from ¥114.49-50. The ...
Average commercial land prices in Japan were almost flat in July, an improvement from eight straight years of decline, thanks partly to robust demand for city hotel and shop construction to meet foreign tourist demand, the government said Tuesday. Prices across the country were up 0.005 percent on July 1 ...
The Bank of Japan kicked off a two-day policy meeting Tuesday amid growing speculation that the BOJ may further loosen its monetary grip after carrying out a “comprehensive assessment” of the aggressive easing steps it has implemented over the past three years. BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said in a Sept. ...
The Nikkei average fell slightly on Tuesday, dragged down by heavyweight component Fast Retailing and the strong yen. The Nikkei lost 27.14 points, or 0.16 percent, to end at 16,492.15. On Friday, it climbed 114.28 points. But the Topix closed up 5.47 points, or 0.42 percent, at 1,316.97, after rising ...