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Vai alla Scheda Paese »That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The dollar briefly dived below ¥103 in Tokyo trading Friday as sentiment was cooled by Bank of Japan monetary easing that disappointed the market. The U.S. currency cut its losses on buybacks to stand at ¥103.60-64 at 5 p.m., but was still down from ¥104.68-69 at the same time Thursday. ...
Japan Airlines said Friday that net profit more than halved in the first quarter as savings from a drop in fuel costs could not make up for weak travel demand at home and abroad. Falling oil prices have helped buoy the carrier’s bottom line as fuel is often an airline’s ...
Panasonic Corp. on Friday said group net profit fell 63.5 percent in the April-June quarter to ¥21.74 billion ($210 million) on year, hit by the strong yen and sluggish sales of solar power systems. Operating profit fell 12.6 percent to ¥66.93 billion in the first quarter on sales of ¥1.75 ...
Mizuho Financial Group, the nation’s second-largest lender, said first-quarter profit dropped 16 percent, as Japan’s negative interest rate hit income from loans and investments and failed to stoke broader borrowing. Mizuho said Friday that April-June net profit fell to ¥132.6 billion ($1.28 billion) from ¥158 billion a year earlier. The ...
Sony Corp.’s first-quarter profit sank 74 percent as earnings got hammered by a strong yen and lagging smartphone sales as well as the Kyushu earthquakes in April that damaged its semiconductor business. Group net profit came to ¥21.17 billion in the three months through June 30, down from ¥82.44 billion ...
Sharp Corp., restructuring under Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., reported on Friday a group operating loss of ¥2.52 billion ($24.3 million) for the April-June quarter after another poor performance from its core liquid crystal display business. That’s much smaller than the ¥28.76 billion operating loss from a year earlier, ...
U.S. tech giant Google came under fire on Thursday in Russia for “decommunizing” street names in parts of Crimea, annexed from Ukraine two years ago, by using Ukrainian spellings. “I think it’s a short-sighted policy,” Russian Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov told Rossiya 24 television, adding he hoped “the mistake ...
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., operator of the wrecked Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, said first-quarter operating profit plummeted 37 percent as sales declined amid faltering demand and new competition in Japan’s power market. Tepco posted operating profit of ¥143.6 billion for the three months ended June 30, down ...
With its network of tubes and petri dishes, Hitachi Ltd.’s latest gizmo may look more like a mini laboratory inside a refrigerator than the growth engine the technology company envisages. Its cabinet-sized stem cell incubator, unveiled in a research center last month, promises to use a technique pioneered by Nobel ...
Stocks turned higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday, helped by buying on dips following sharp afternoon falls due to selling triggered by the Bank of Japan’s decision to expand monetary policy. The 225-issue Nikkei average climbed 92.43 points, or 0.56 percent, to end at 16,569.27. On Thursday, the ...
The Bank of Japan opted on Friday to modestly expand its lavish monetary stimulus to help perk up sluggish growth and combat deflation. The central bank ended a policy meeting Friday by announcing it will expand purchases of assets from financial institutions to help inject more cash into the world’s ...
Sony Corp. has agreed to sell a portion of its battery business to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd., as the electronics giant responds to slowing demand for smartphones. The announcement Thursday comes as Sony banks on growth in its games business with the upcoming launch of its virtual reality headset, while ...
Imported whiskies are expanding their presence in Japan amid a boom that is creating shortages of domestic spirits and increasing demand for diversity. Sparked by the resurgence of the highball cocktail, the boom is thinning stocks of Japanese products that grew popular after a TV drama told the story of ...
Japan’s unemployment rate fell to 3.1 percent in June, the lowest level in nearly 21 years, government data showed Friday, highlighting companies’ willingness to hire more people in a tight labor market. The improvement in three months came as separate data showed the country’s job availability improved to 1.37 in ...
Japan’s consumer prices fell 0.5 percent in June from a year earlier for the fourth straight month of decline, the government said Friday, adding pressure on the Bank of Japan to further ease monetary policy to boost inflation. The core consumer price index, which excludes volatile fresh food prices, stood ...
The Bangladeshi government has postponed the closing bid for a large-scale project funded by Japan’s official development assistance in the wake of the terrorist attack on a restaurant in Dhaka earlier this month that left 20 hostages, including seven Japanese, dead, sources said Thursday. The closing bid for the project ...
TOKYO - Japan on Friday published another batch of tepid inflation and spending data, heaping pressure on the central bank to respond with a fresh round of stimulus to boost the faltering economy.
East Asia, which imports more liquefied natural gas than any other region of the world, is preparing to receive its first supplies from America’s shale bounty. A tanker that loaded LNG at Cheniere Energy Inc.’s export terminal in Louisiana is bound for the Far East, according to an official at ...
Sony Corp said on Thursday it has agreed to sell a portion of its battery business to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd., as the electronics giant responds to slowing demand for smartphones. The announcement comes as Sony banks on growth in its games business with the upcoming launch of its virtual ...
The dollar slipped below ¥105 in Tokyo on Thursday, as stocks slid and expectations receded for an early interest rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥104.68-69, down from ¥105.40-41 at the same time Wednesday. The euro was at $1.1102-1102, up from $1.1001-1001, ...
The widest gap in average minimum hourly wages between prefectures in fiscal 2016 is expected to be double that of a decade ago. Based on a government advisory panel’s recommendation, the gap between the highest and the lowest prefecture figures will stand at ¥218 in the year from April, up ...