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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The dollar fell below ¥102.50 in Tokyo trading on Thursday, dragged down by losses on stock markets worldwide and a fall in U.S. long-term interest rates. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥102.44-45, down from ¥103.12-12 at the same time Wednesday. The euro was at $1.1224-1225, against $1.1222-1222, and ...
As graying takes hold in Japan, the changes it brings go far deeper than the impact on social welfare and the labor force. Gym membership among pensioners is surging, for example, even as 20-somethings drop out. Many of those same young people are losing interest in donating blood, too, yet ...
The web-browsing feature of New York City’s sidewalk Wi-Fi kiosks will be disabled after critics complained that homeless people were monopolizing them and using them to watch porn, officials said Wednesday. The consortium that installed 400 LinkNYC kiosks across the city said it will remove web browsing from the kiosks ...
The Group of Seven summit in Mie Prefecture in May may have boosted demand in the Japanese economy by roughly ¥107 billion, the prefectural government said Wednesday. Leaders from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States plus the European Union gathered for the Ise-Shima summit from May ...
Stocks declined further on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday, with investor sentiment hurt by weaker U.S. equities overnight and the yen’s ascent. The Nikkei average slumped 209.23 points, or 1.26 percent, to end at 16,405.01, its first finish below 16,500 since Aug. 26. On Wednesday, it fell 114.80 points. ...
Toshiba Corp. submitted a report to the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday to explain how corporate governance at the major electronics maker has improved since its accounting scandal came to light, the company said. The step is aimed at getting its name taken off the bourse’s watch list. After examining ...
After his appointment in May, the president of 7-Eleven’s floundering parent company promised to deliver a turnaround plan in about 100 days. Ryuichi Isaka is on day 112 and counting. Since Isaka took over on May 26, shares of Seven & I Holdings Co. have fallen 7 percent, widening their ...
Mitsubishi Corp. has proposed increasing its stake in convenience store operator Lawson Inc. and may make it a subsidiary as the country’s biggest trading house shifts away from commodities. The company currently has a 33.4 percent stake in Japan’s third-biggest operator of convenience stores. Lawson said in a statement it ...
In an unusual financial environment marked by negative interest rates, venerable Japanese regional lender Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank is branching out into the chocolate business. A company in which OKB holds a stake will shortly release OKB chocolate in collaboration with a cake shop, the bank’s president said in a recent ...
Got stinky colleagues? Japan has a seminar for that. After a long, sweaty summer, some firms in a nation renowned for its cleanliness are declaring all out war on an office plague known as sumehara (smell harassment). Telling a colleague they stink is touchy stuff, of course. But personal care ...
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump hit out at Ford Motor Co. for moving its production of small cars to Mexico, saying it should not be permitted to happen. Speaking in Flint, Michigan, the economically depressed former home of General Motors most recently wracked by a scandal over its contaminated water ...
Taylor Pollier got an offer from Uber he couldn’t refuse — to be part of an experiment with a car of the future. Uber on Wednesday became the first company to make self-driving cars available to the general public in the U.S. through a test program in Pittsburgh. The ride-hailing ...
Somewhere in the vast fishing waters off Australia’s northern coast, the hunt is on for the Adams and Eves needed to start a super race of shrimp. The chosen few will be key to the success of a $1.5 billion plan by Seafarms Group Ltd. to build the largest shrimp ...
The Group of Seven summit in Mie Prefecture in May is estimated to have boosted demand in the Japanese economy by roughly ¥107 billion ($1.04 billion), the prefectural government said Wednesday. The figure is down ¥100 million from the preliminary estimate released in March. Leaders from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, ...
Kirin Brewery Co. is considering entering into a partnership with Brooklyn Brewery of the United States, informed sources said Wednesday. The unit of Kirin Holdings Co. plans to manufacture and sell the New York state-based craft brewer’s Brooklyn Lager in Japan and Brazil starting next year, the sources said. Through ...
A joint Japanese business delegation will kick off an eight-day visit to China next Tuesday in the hope of expanding bilateral economic ties through talks with Chinese government officials and local executives. “We’d like to talk with officials of economic ministries and political leaders over whether it is possible for ...
The Persian Gulf’s biggest oil terminal, located on Iran’s Kharg Island, is appealing for greater Japanese trade. Officials say they plan to reward Japan for its support during the years of sanctions with priority in deals and investment. Only 1½ hours by air from Tehran, huge oil tankers swing into ...
A new report shows Hawaii has the nation’s highest average home prices as the cost of housing in the state has soared over the last year. The 2016 Coldwell Banker Home Listing Report ranked states based on their average price for a home with four bedrooms and two bathrooms. Hawaii ...
The dollar surged above ¥103 in Tokyo trading on Wednesday, propelled by hopes for further monetary easing by the Bank of Japan at its policy-setting meeting next week. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥103.12-12, up from ¥101.82-82 at the same time Tuesday. The euro was at $1.1222-1222, compared ...
Kazuhisa Takemura has an idea for helping Japan’s struggling economy: Entice younger consumers to spend more by providing them a financial and emotional cushion. Takemura, a professor of psychology at Waseda University in Tokyo who focuses on decision theory, says that if younger consumers in Japan had a bigger “safety ...
The Bank of Japan is considering either a tweak to or an abandonment of its guidance on the range of government bonds that it buys, according to people familiar with the discussions. Any shift would reflect a desire by policymakers to give themselves greater flexibility as they continue with the ...