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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The government will investigate a suspected scheme undercutting the official price for imported rice, farm minister Yuji Yamamoto said Friday. The post Government to probe suspected kickbacks undercutting official prices of imported rice appeared first on The Japan Times.
General Motors Co. is asking U.S. safety regulators to delay by a year the mandatory recall of almost 1 million vehicles with air bags made by Takata Corp., saying the designated models have not been shown to carry the same risk as others linked to deaths and injuries. The automaker ...
Wells Fargo & Co. was sued Friday by customers in what may be one of many lawsuits following disclosures that bank employees created unauthorized accounts to boost the bank’s fees. Three Utah customers sued in federal court, blaming the scandal on the bank’s push to increase the number of accounts ...
Ohio’s Republican governor, John Kasich, took over the White House briefing lectern on Friday to praise the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, an unusual move that shows how hard President Barack Obama will push for the trade deal’s approval. Obama, a Democrat who will leave office in four months, met earlier with ...
Parliament has approved a Sh27.3 billion loan from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for construction of the second phase of the new Mombasa Port container terminal.
Amid speculation the Bank of Japan will announce additional monetary easing next week, some observers are warning of possible side effects. A long way from hitting its 2 percent inflation goal, the BOJ may expand its radical negative interest rate policy and modify its asset-purchasing program in a bid to ...
The dollar softened slightly below ¥102 in Tokyo on Friday, with players reluctant to trade actively ahead of a three-day weekend in Japan and policy-setting meetings of the central banks of Japan and the United States next week. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥101.91-91, down from ¥102.44-45 at ...
Stocks rebounded Friday thanks to a wave of buybacks and purchases spurred by an overnight rally in U.S. equities. The 225-issue Nikkei average rose 114.28 points, or 0.70 percent, to close at 16,519.29 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, logging a higher close for the first time in three days. On ...
The United States will lose its credibility in the Asia-Pacific region if Congress does not ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact by the end of the year, a former senior U.S. trade official said. The new U.S. president will be sworn in on Jan. 20. “If you ask me what ...
The transport ministry on Friday introduced new penalties for automakers who manipulate mileage data, including production suspensions, as the deceptions issued by Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and Suzuki Motor Corp. continue to mar the reputation of the Japanese auto industry. The new measures, which include surprise inspections, were announced by Land, ...
IPhone fans lined up Friday as the water-resistant iPhone 7 and larger iPhone 7 Plus went on sale in Japan, promising to be the first of the popular smartphone series to allow mobile payments here. More than 100 people were waiting at an Apple store in Tokyo’s trendy Omotesando district ...
The Tokyo Taxation Bureau has imposed about ¥12 billion ($118 million) in additional tax on a Japanese subsidiary of Apple Inc. in connection with profits from software sold via the iTunes Store, sources familiar with the matter said Friday. The tax bureau said iTunes K.K. in Minato Ward, Tokyo, should ...
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.’s main lending unit has urged the Bank of Japan to consider the side effects of negative interest rates at next week’s meeting, saying the policy will continue to squeeze lending income. “When it comes to margins, because of negative rates and the competitive environment, they ...
Mizuho Bank and SoftBank Group Corp. have agreed to set up a 50-50 joint company to provide unsecured consumer loans via artificial intelligence technology. Using customers’ business histories at both firms for the credit-screening process, the venture will provide an innovative, attractive, low-cost loan service that won’t need outlets, Mizuho ...
As Britain greenlights its first new nuclear power plant in more than 20 years, experts diverge on the role of nuclear energy in the quest to cap global warming at less than 2 degrees Celsius. The broad challenge in meeting that goal — the cornerstone of the Paris Agreement inked ...
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV said on Thursday it is recalling 1.9 million vehicles worldwide for an air bag defect linked to three deaths and five injuries. It is the latest in a series of large-scale air bag recalls, as the auto industry grapples with a widening array of problems from ...
U.S. regulators issued an official recall of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 phone on Thursday because of a risk of fire. Samsung already has voluntary recalled the devices after a few dozen devices exploded or caught fire. That was out of about 2.5 million phones sold. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety ...
The transport ministry on Thursday issued a second reprimand to Mitsubishi Motors Corp. for vehicle mileage data fraud after it found the automaker continued to manipulate figures after admitting to the practice in April. The ministry said it again found a lack of legal compliance and inadequate governance at the ...
Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance Co. will give regular employee status to about 400 female nonregular administrative staff at its regional sales offices from October, informed sources told Jiji Press on Thursday. Following the status change, their annual salaries will rise 7.4 percent, or some ¥220,000, on average. The workers will ...
The Tokyo Game Show kicked off Thursday, with virtual reality products grabbing the lion’s share of attention at one of the central fixtures in the global gaming calendar. At Chiba’s massive Makuhari Messe venue on Thursday, industry insiders and journalists lined up to try VR games, and not only those ...
The Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday approved the listing of Kyushu Railway Co. on its main section. With an expected market capitalization of around ¥500 billion, JR Kyushu’s debut on Oct. 25 will be one of the biggest initial public offerings in Japan this year, after messaging app provider Line ...