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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Few doubt Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s decision to invest public funds in a $90 billion high-tech maglev railway makes political sense. Whether it makes equally good economic sense is less clear. Proponents say lending government money to Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) to speed up the launch of a ...
Japan’s consumer prices were expected to fall in June for the fourth straight month, a Reuters poll found, keeping alive market expectations the central bank will expand an already massive stimulus program to hit its 2 percent price goal. Separate data next week is also expected to show exports slumped ...
The world’s last videocassette recorder is set to roll off the factory line as a Japanese manufacturer ends production of the once booming home-theater technology. Funai Electric, which says it is the world’s last VCR manufacturer, pointed to a sharp decline in demand and trouble sourcing parts for its decision ...
Stocks turned lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, weighed down by an overnight fallback in U.S. equities and the yen’s ascent. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 182.97 points, or 1.09 percent, to close at 16,627.25. On Thursday, the key market gauge gained 128.33 points. The Topix index of all ...
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. is exploring the sale of its majority stake in chemicals business Wako Pure Chemical Industries Ltd. as the drugmaker seeks to sell noncore assets to raise cash, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Takeda is working with advisers at Nomura Holdings Inc. to sell the ...
North Korea’s economy last year is estimated to have contracted the most since 2007 as leader Kim Jong Un marshaled resources for nuclear tests and ballistic missile development. The gross domestic product of the totalitarian state fell 1.1 percent in 2015 from a year earlier, when it expanded 1 percent, ...
Japan intensified its shinkansen sales pitch in Singapore on Friday, hoping to acquire an edge in its bid for the Malaysia-Singapore high speed rail project. Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Keiichi Ishii discussed the bullet train system at a meeting with Singapore Senior Minister of State for Transport Josephine ...
Daikin Industries Ltd. will open an air conditioner assembly plant in Vietnam in a ¥10 billion bet on growing demand there, informed sources have said. It will build the plant at an industrial complex near Hanoi. The plant will start production in early 2018 with an initial annual output of ...
SINGAPORE - Japan intensified its sales pitch for the shinkansen bullet train in Singapore on Friday, hoping to give it an edge when tendering for the recently agreed Malaysia-Singapore high-speed rail project.
Pokemon fans in Japan can at last grab their smartphones and set off outdoors in pursuit of monsters as “Pokemon Go” debuted Friday. The GPS-based smartphone game is already a massive hit in more than 30 countries, after it launched overseas on July 6. The unexplained delay in releasing it ...
Ahead of the much-awaited release in Japan of the blockbuster smartphone game “Pokemon Go,” information security firm Trend Micro Inc. warned Thursday that fake “Pokemon Go” apps are rampant overseas. Trend Micro has confirmed 43 counterfeit products, all of which run on the Android operating system of Google Inc. Of ...
The U.S. government is suing to stop two major health insurance mergers, a move regulators say is needed to protect Americans from potential cost hikes and lower quality care. The Department of Justice said Thursday that the combinations of Aetna and Humana and Anthem and Cigna would hurt competition that ...
[Ethiopian Herald] The presence of the Office in Ethiopia is instrumental in strengthening Ethio-Japan relations and investment ties between them and the rest of the world
China is setting up its first immigration office, according to people with knowledge of the plans, as President Xi Jinping seeks overseas talent to help drive the transition of an economy led by consumer spending and innovation. Public Security Minister Guo Shengkun, who doubles as a state councilor, disclosed the ...
In Japan, expatriates rule when it comes to the biggest pay packages. Foreign executives held eight of the top 10 spots on Bloomberg’s ranking of the country’s best-paid executives last year. SoftBank Group Corp.’s former Chief Operating Officer Nikesh Arora, whose ¥8 billion package topped the list, hails from India. ...
Not everyone loves “Pokemon Go.” The augmented-reality game, in which players walk around real-life neighborhoods to hunt and catch virtual cartoon characters that appear on their smartphone screens, has been blamed in the United States for several robberies of distracted mobile phone users and car crashes. And a U.S. senator ...
Stocks rebounded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday, lifted by gains in New York and an easier yen. The Nikkei average gained 128.33 points, or 0.77 percent, to finish at 16,810.22. On Wednesday, it lost 41.42 points. The Topix index closed up 8.64 points, or 0.65 percent, at 1,339.39, ...
A total of 258 out of 500 major firms listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s first section have appointed one or more female executives, including to their boards, this year, a Jiji Press survey has found. The proportion of such companies came to 51 percent, up from 42 percent in ...
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda ruled out the idea of using “helicopter money” — or directly underwriting the budget deficit — to combat deflation, as policymakers gear up to expand existing stimulus programs. Japanese markets have risen this month on speculation that authorities, battling to revive the economy after ...
The dollar cut gains late Thursday after surging to a six-week high of around ¥107.50 in the morning. At 5 p.m., it stood at ¥106.82-83, up from ¥106.33-34 at the same time Wednesday. The euro was at $1.1032-1032, up from $1.0994-0994, and at ¥117.85-85, up from ¥116.90-91. In overseas trading ...
After investors pushed up Nintendo Co. shares with a fervor only matched by gamers chasing Pikachu, traders are now locking horns over how much the high-flying stock is worth. Bears have boosted short interest in Nintendo to its highest in five months after the stock doubled in just over a ...