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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The U.S. economy could be $1 trillion smaller than otherwise expected in 2021 if Republican candidate Donald Trump wins the presidential election in November, economics research firm Oxford Economics said on Tuesday. While the firm said Trump’s policies — including more protectionist trade measures, tax cuts and mass deportation of ...
NTT Resonant Inc., the operator of Japanese web portal goo, said this week it has started a service using artificial intelligence to provide love-life advice. The corevo AI developed by the NTT group will answer questions related to love affairs asked through Oshiete goo, a user-driven question-and-answer community site. By ...
The NCAA’s decision to pull seven championships out of North Carolina ratchets up the pressure on this college sports-crazy state to repeal its law on bathroom use by transgender people. Unlike the recent one-time cancellations by the NBA and various rock stars, the move by college sports’ governing body could ...
TransferWise Ltd., a British peer-to-peer money transfer startup launched last week on the promise of cheaper prices, is betting its service will change the way Japanese and foreign residents send and receive money overseas. “We are very honored to have finally made it to Japan,” said Taavet Hinrikus, CEO and ...
Source: UN Security Council Country: ColombiaFollowing the peace agreement between the government and the FARC, the Council also approved the deployment of 450 observers to assist the parties in ending a half century of conflict.SC/12514 Security Council 7768th Meeting (AM) Welcoming the recent peace agreement between the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary ...
AP Sony Corp.’s video game division is readying not just games but also music, movies and other kinds of entertainment for its Virtual Reality headgear, set to go on sale next month. Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia President Atsushi Morita appeared at a Tokyo event Tuesday, ahead of the Tokyo ...
The dollar hovered moderately below ¥102 in late Tokyo trading on Tuesday amid receding expectations of an interest rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve this month. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥101.82-82, down from ¥102.31-32 at the same time Monday. The euro was at $1.1229-1229, down from ...
The Nikkei average rebounded slightly on Tuesday, supported by a rally overnight in the U.S. It gained 56.12 points, or 0.34 percent, to close at 16,729.04. On Monday, the Nikkei fell 292.84 points. The Topix index finished down 0.11 point, or 0.01 percent, at 1,322.99, after retreating 20.76 points the ...
China’s electric vehicle industry, a flagship for Beijing’s technology ambitions, has been rocked by scandal after five companies were caught collecting millions of dollars in subsidies for buses they never made. The affair of the phantom buses has prompted questions about whether the ruling Communist Party’s financial support to an ...
Food and beverage giant Suntory Holdings Ltd. announced plans Monday to offer lectures on Japanese cuisine at the Culinary Institute of America. Suntory aims to spread the popularity of Japanese food as part of its cultural contribution activities. The cuisine is increasingly in demand in the U.S. The prestigious U.S. ...
California will become the first U.S. state to require farmers to pay overtime to field workers and fruit pickers under a bill signed on Monday by Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown. The bill would phase in overtime pay for farmworkers from 2019 to 2022. In an industry where a work week ...
Donald Trump will have an address on Pennsylvania Avenue whether or not he wins November’s election, after his new super-luxury hotel opened on Monday, steps from the White House. Not everyone was applauding his name in large gold letters adorning the 263-room, $212 million Trump International Hotel glinting in the ...
Iran is ready to buy nuclear reactors from Japan if any proposed sales are accompanied by “lucrative commercial support,” according to the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. “Of course if we receive any suggestion or any proposal from Japan that would sound very interesting to us, we ...
Renesas Electronics Corp. agreed to buy U.S. chipmaker Intersil Corp. for $3.2 billion, seeking to accelerate its efforts to sell more automotive components. Renesas is offering $22.50 per share, a 14 percent premium to Monday’s close, according to a statement to the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday. The Tokyo-based company ...
The number of rail passengers using Keisei Electric Railway Co.’s latest Skyliner route topped 20 million on Tuesday, after just over six years of service. The train travels the 70 km from central Tokyo to Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture in as little as 36 minutes. Keisei held a ...
Suzuki Motor Corp. was found by tax authorities to have concealed around ¥300 million in income over two years through March 2015, sources close to the matter said Tuesday. The automaker failed to declare ¥1.2 billion partly due to accounting errors and has been levied around ¥450 million in back ...
A Japanese startup is entering the equity research business in a bid to challenge the dominance of securities firms by using computers to crunch vast troves of information and predict companies’ earnings. Nowcast Inc., a financial-technology venture formed last year out of the University of Tokyo, will begin providing automated ...
New president at United United Continental Holdings, Inc. named Scott Kirby as the president of United Airlines on Aug. 29. In this newly created role, Kirby will assume responsibility for United’s operations, marketing, sales, alliances, network planning and revenue management. Kirby joins United from American Airlines, where he served as ...
Online betting markets cut back Hillary Clinton’s prospects of winning the Nov. 8 election after a video showed the Democratic presidential candidate stumbling and having difficulty walking as she was helped into a van at a Sept. 11 memorial, raising concerns about her health. Her probability of victory fell 7 ...
An association of Japanese electric power companies said Monday that carbon dioxide emissions by its members declined in fiscal 2015 to around 441 million tons, partly due to greater use of renewable energy. The preliminary figure represents a fall of 28 million tons from the previous year, said the Electric ...