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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday directed state authorities to prevent nearly 3,000 registered sex offenders now on parole from playing “Pokemon Go” in an effort to safeguard children who play. The state’s Department of Corrections and Community Services is making that a condition of supervised release from state ...
Sales of a pocket version of the U.S. Constitution have soared since the father of a fallen Muslim-American soldier brandished a copy to denounce Donald Trump, igniting one of the biggest backlashes against the Republican nominee. Khizr Khan, whose son died in a 2004 suicide bombing in Iraq, has gone ...
Virgin Galactic says it has received an operating license for its space tourism rocket from the Federal Aviation Administration. Virgin Galactic says the operating license awarded by the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation will ultimately permit commercial operations. The company said Monday the licensing process involved a review of ...
Toyota Motor Corp. has taken full control of minivehicle maker Daihatsu Motor Co. in a bid to boost the group’s competitiveness in emerging markets by accelerating its development of small vehicles. The transition was completed Monday. Toyota, the world’s top automaker in terms of global sales in fiscal 2015, has ...
It said Vietnam stood out in terms of growth Vietnam's top brewer Sabeco to sell 53 percent stake: reportForeign investors roll out the barrel as Vietnam is thirsty for more beerBeer sales outpace economic growth in AsiaSapporo's Vietnam beer ops to remain in red for few more years: exec
A special Yamanote Line train designed to cheer on Japanese athletes at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics made its debut Monday on Tokyo’s busy loop line. East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) designed the 11-car train in conjunction with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., Canon Inc., Asahi Breweries Ltd. and ...
Uber Technologies Inc. will sell its China business to Didi Chuxing, the dominant ride-hailing service in the country, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal ends a costly battle between the two companies, which competed for customers and drivers. The valuation of the combined business will be $35 ...
Just before the stores open in Tokyo’s Akihabara electronics district, buses pull up, unleashing Chinese tourists and their credit cards to snap up televisions, rice cookers and other gadgets. Walk into any department store and there they are, buying mascara, T-shirts and other merchandise. China’s infatuation with Japanese products is ...
The dollar dropped below ¥102.50 in Tokyo trading on Monday, weighed down by data showing slower-than-expected U.S. economic growth in April-June. At 5 p.m., the dollar was quoted at ¥102.38-38, down from ¥103.60-64 at the same time on Friday. The euro was at $1.1168-1168, up from $1.1087-1087, and at ¥114.34-35, ...
Friday was a big day for the world’s largest pension fund, which posted its worst annual loss since the financial crisis and disclosed individual equity holdings for the first time. The two may be connected. The list of domestic shares owned by the ¥134 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund hews ...
One of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s top advisers says he favors a declaration by Japan’s policymakers that their current measures are monetizing the nation’s debt. Some people say that Japan has “already adopted ad hoc monetization of debt, and that to improve public confidence the government and the Bank of ...
Tokyo Gas Co., the nation’s second-biggest buyer of liquefied natural gas, is in talks with European companies to swap cargoes it owns from the U.S. with those in Asia to reduce shipping times and costs. The utility is offering cargoes from the Cove Point project on the U.S. East Coast, ...
Major mobile game provider DeNA Co. on Monday launched a driverless bus service at a park in Chiba Prefecture. The bus service at Toyosuna Park, located next to a shopping mall run by Aeon Mall Co., will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day through Aug. 11. The ...
Public broadcaster NHK on Monday started 4K and 8K ultra high-definition test broadcasting on its BS satellite channels, aiming to verify the technology and popularize it ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. The resolution of 4K broadcasting is roughly four times as detailed as that of the currently ...
Yo-Ho Brewing Co., which is known for Yona Yona Ale, is taking advantage of a growing taste for craft beer as it moves to expand its business, company President Naoyuki Ide said. While overall demand for beer is declining among young people, craft beer, which is produced with a focus ...
Japan’s top business leaders expressed hopes that Yuriko Koike, former defense minister and the winner of the Tokyo gubernatorial election Sunday, will carry out administrative reform in the capital and regain public trust in the metropolitan government. “Koike’s strong willingness to reform the Tokyo government and ability to make decisions ...
The BOJ's review of its monetary stimulus program revived expectations it could adopt some form of "helicopter money," printing money for government spending to spur inflation. The post ‘Helicopter money’ talk takes flight as Bank of Japan runs out of runway appeared first on The Japan Times.
After more than three years of pumping out cheap money that has failed to secure its inflation target, the Bank of Japan has signaled a rethink. Instead of buying yet more government bonds, cutting interest rates or pushing further into uncharted territory, the BOJ disappointed some Friday when its policy ...
During a visit by Singapore’s prime minister on Tuesday, President Barack Obama will extol the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal and commit to getting it done, a top White House official said Friday, even though Obama’s fellow Democrats panned it at their convention this past week. Obama wants Congress to ...
The national carrier sold 8.8 percent and plans to find other investors to further reduce the state ownershipVietnam Airlines plans to reduce state ownership to 65 percent: reportVietnam Airlines shares to start trading after ANA deal concludesVietnam Airlines to sell 8.8 pct stake to Japan's ANA, CEO says
The decline in global markets spelled bad news for its controversial shift from Japanese government bonds to equities. The post Pension giant GPIF confirms its lost ¥5.3 trillion on stock market bets in ’15 appeared first on The Japan Times.