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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Star Mica Co., a Tokyo-listed real-estate company founded by an ex-Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker, plans to double returns from apartments, using Airbnb to house foreign tourists. The company owns about 2,500 apartments mostly in Tokyo, and is considering renting some of them to overseas visitors from as early as ...
U.S. dollar, euro, yuan and yen coins can be changed into 12 kinds of electronic money, including those used by Facebook and Skype. The post Narita installs currency machine to convert travelers’ coins into e-cash appeared first on The Japan Times.
SoftBank Group Corp.’s first-quarter profit rose 19 percent as proceeds from selling part of its stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. helped offset losses at Sprint Corp. Net income at the carrier rose to ¥254.2 billion in the three months ended June 30, the Tokyo-based company reported Thursday. SoftBank’s operating ...
Toyota Motor Corp. lagged Volkswagen AG by global deliveries in the first half of the year, as demand for the newly redesigned Prius hybrid slumped in a U.S. market dominated by trucks and sport utility vehicles. Worldwide deliveries fell 0.6 percent to 4.99 million vehicles in the six months through ...
Stocks fell on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday prior to a monetary policy decision by the Bank of Japan on Friday. The Nikkei average lost 187.98 points, or 1.13 percent, to end at 16,476.84. On Wednesday it jumped 281.78 points. The Topix index was down 14.67 points, or 1.11 ...
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said it suffered a group net loss of ¥129.72 billion in the April-June quarter, against profit of ¥23.99 billion a year before, due partly to costs related to its fuel efficiency scandal. In the first quarter of fiscal 2016, Mitsubishi Motors booked a special loss of ¥125.9 ...
Construction and mining equipment manufacturer Komatsu Ltd., which last week made a $2.89 billion offer for Joy Global Inc., said first-quarter profit fell 52 percent as demand languished in markets such as the Middle East and Indonesia and the stronger yen crimped overseas revenue. Net income fell to ¥15.6 billion ...
Malaysia Airlines Berhad inked a deal with Boeing on Wednesday to buy 50 B737 MAX aircraft valued at $5.5 billion, signaling that the troubled state-owned air carrier is on track to recovery. “Malaysia Airlines is now on a path to growth across the ASEAN region. This new aircraft order will ...
Apple announced Wednesday the sale of its billionth iPhone, a milestone for the company as it seeks to keep momentum in a competitive smartphone market. Chief executive Tim Cook made the announcement at a staff meeting at the company’s California headquarters. “IPhone has become one of the most important, world-changing ...
Takashi Oyabu is the president of a company in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, that operates tourist infrastructure with a difference. Its portfolio includes ryokan (traditional inns), restaurants and shops that sell high-end, locally made items such as towels and ceramics. In the lobby of Dogo Yaya, a hotel operated by his ...
“Pokemon Go” players are descending on an atomic bomb memorial park in Hiroshima, and officials of the city are displeased. They have asked game developer Niantic Inc. to remove the “Pokestops” and other virtual sites that show up in the park for those playing the augmented-reality game. The city wants ...
Mitsui & Co. said Wednesday that it will invest in the Columbia Asia group, which operates medical institutions in Asia. The major Japanese trading house will invest $101 million in the group’s holding company, International Columbia U.S. LLC, to acquire a 16.2 percent stake in the Seattle-based firm. As part ...
The dollar was solid around ¥105.50 in Tokyo trading late Wednesday, after showing wild swings triggered by news about an economic stimulus package to be compiled by the Japanese government. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥105.40-41, up from ¥104.09-10 at the same time Tuesday. The euro was at ...
Nissan Motor Co. posted a 11 percent drop in quarterly profit as a stronger yen eroded overseas earnings and domestic sales of minicars supplied by Mitsubishi Motors Corp. slumped after a mileage scandal. Net income in the quarter through June declined to ¥136.4 billion ($1.3 billion), in line with analysts’ ...
Nintendo Co. on Wednesday posted a group net loss of ¥24.53 billion ($232.1 million) for the April-June quarter due to the strong yen and sluggish Wii U game console sales, but maintained its forecast of more than doubling its full-year net profit. Nintendo, one of the developers of the smash-hit ...
Before most Federal Reserve meetings, Treasury traders spend days poring over U.S. data for clues on how officials will lean. This time the bigger story is the Bank of Japan. The BOJ has become more relevant to some U.S. traders than their own central bank as a Bloomberg survey of ...
Line Corp. posted a profit in its first earnings report since ushering in the year’s biggest technology debut, as monthly active users rose to 220 million. Japan’s largest mobile messaging service announced ¥2.56 billion ($24.3 million) of net income in the six months through June, from a loss of ¥5.3 ...
Stocks staged a powerful rally from a three-session slump on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday, helped by brisk buybacks on growing hopes for a large-scale economic stimulus package by the government. The 225-issue Nikkei average jumped 281.78 points, or 1.72 percent, to end at 16,664.82. On Tuesday, the key market ...
Cayman Islands was the top investor, followed by Japan and Singapore.Provinces urged to carefully assess FDI projects before licensingVietnam becoming a magnet for technology firms, but problems persistVietnam's H1 actual FDI rises 15 pct yr/yr to $7.25 bln: gov'tVietnam becoming wary of too many incentives to foreign investors
The trading house is eying Asia's rising middle classVietnam M&A deals to hit new record at $6 billion: forecastVietnam's realty conglomerate Bitexco raises stake in hotel chain
Deals' value exceeded $3 billion in January-July, up 28 pct year-on-yearJapan's Aeon to open 4th megastore, eyes expansion in Vietnam Tycoons jostle for stakes as Vietnam's buy-Thai market boomsVietnam M&A deals rose to $5.2 billion in 2015: report