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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
TOKYO - Sarah Takeda thought she had a good little business renting a traditional tatami-mat room in her house on Airbnb.
(Teleborsa) - Nuovi maxi stimoli per l'economia giapponese, per un valore di 28 mila miliardi di yen, equivalenti a circa 265 miliardi di dollari. Lo ha annunciato oggi il Premier Shinzo Abe, nel...
Officials at Nissan’s auto plant in Canton, Mississippi, refused to meet Tuesday with a French legislator seeking information on workers’ efforts to organize a union. Christian Hutin, a member of France’s National Assembly, was in Mississippi on a fact-finding mission on working conditions at Nissan, which is partly controlled by ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday that a new economic stimulus package will exceed ¥28 trillion, with a partial focus on agriculture. The massive package is partly seen as a bid to contain fallout from Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. The government is expected to boost spending on ...
Sarah Takeda thought she had a good little business renting a traditional tatami-mat room in her house on Airbnb. But she and other hosts in Japan are learning the hard way that the home-sharing site’s fastest-growing market is also becoming the next flash point in a global battle over the ...
It is 30 chapters long and almost nobody has read it, but the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is the unlikely villain at both political conventions. In Philadelphia this week, opponents interrupted Democratic National Convention speakers with chants of “No TPP” and expressed relief that Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton opposed ...
Federal investigators say the driver who was killed when his Tesla sedan crashed while in self-driving mode was speeding just before hitting the side of a tractor-trailer. The National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report Tuesday that the Tesla Model S was traveling at 74 mph in a ...
A government advisory panel on Tuesday agreed to recommend raising the country’s average minimum hourly wage by ¥24, or 3 percent, for fiscal 2016. The increase will bring the average minimum wage to ¥822 for the year that started in April. This marks the fifth straight year of double-digit rise ...
Libya’s chief of staff on Tuesday threatened to target foreign oil tankers if they entered territorial waters, after a controversial deal was struck between the United Nations envoy and a militia commander in control of the oil terminals. The agreement between U.N. Envoy to Libya Martin Kobler and militia leader ...
The Fair Trade Commission searched the offices of TDK Corp. and NHK Spring Co. on Tuesday on suspicion they formed a price cartel for electronics parts for hard disk drives, sources said. The two manufacturers of electronics components have allegedly set retail prices for suspensions, which are used for hard ...
The dollar slipped below ¥104 in Tokyo trading late Tuesday on weak stock market performance in Japan and overseas. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥104.09-10, down steeply from ¥106.27-28 at the same time Monday. The euro was at $1.1008-1008, up from $1.0965-0966, and at ¥114.58-60, down from ¥116.53-55. ...
Stocks extended their losing streak to a third session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday, led by Wall Street and investors dumping Japanese exporters on the yen’s strength. The Nikkei average plunged 237.25 points, or 1.43 percent, to end at 16,383.04. On Monday, it lost 6.96 points. The Topix ...
Kyushu-based Solaseed Air Inc. on Tuesday started bearing the Kumamon mascot on some of its aircraft to boost support for the area affected by a series of earthquakes in April. The first airplane featuring Kumamon, the popular black bear mascot from Kumamoto Prefecture, left Tokyo’s Haneda airport for Kumamoto in ...
The high level of security now available on smartphones has led Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ to plan ATMs that use validation by phone rather than card and PIN, sources said Tuesday. It will be the first major Japanese bank to offer a service that does not require bank cards. While ...
Yahoo sealed a deal Monday to sell its core business to telecom giant Verizon for $4.8 billion, ending a two-decade run as an independent company for the internet pioneer. The agreement announced by the two companies after months of negotiations comes following a years-long decline for the iconic firm that ...
Whether it is the young or the old, Japanese consumers are spending less on fun, and that is bad news for Abenomics. With many pensioners on fixed incomes focused on buying the essentials, and a growing number of workers in their 20s and early 30s stuck in low-paying, nonregular jobs, ...
As one of the world’s biggest investors in hedge funds, it is Raymond Nolte’s job to find traders who can navigate even the toughest markets. Right now, he trusts nobody to do that in Japan. The chief investment officer of SkyBridge Capital has zero exposure to Japan-focused hedge funds, saying ...
British Columbia announced Monday it will impose a 15 percent tax on foreigners who buy residential property in Vancouver, a city with a housing shortage and soaring real estate prices. The tax — which will go into effect Aug. 2 — is the latest in a series of measures designed ...
Aiming to develop new export markets for a fuel source hit by declining domestic demand, Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead on Monday signed an agreement calling for cooperation between the state and a consortium of Japanese companies in researching clean-coal technology. Mead signed a memorandum of understanding in Cheyenne with the ...
A gunman and his underage driver tried to rob a group of people playing the popular “Pokemon Go” game, triggering a shootout after one of the players pulled out his own weapon at a Las Vegas park that has become a hot spot for virtual creature hunting. The incident early ...
These days, Thu Huong no longer shops at the fresh produce market near her home, opting instead to hop in a taxi and head off to Aeon Co.’s 9-month-old mall in Hanoi. There, as she shops for her family of five, she can bask in the air-conditioning and enjoy free ...