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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Stocks climbed for the sixth straight session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday, following the quick end to the attempted coup in Turkey and Wall Street’s continued rise. The Nikkei average advanced 225.46 points, or 1.37 percent, to finish at 16,723.31. On Friday, it rose 111.96 points. The Tokyo ...
The dollar was firmer around ¥106 in Tokyo trading on Tuesday, supported by the continued strength of Japanese and overseas stocks. At 5 p.m., it stood at ¥105.95-95, up from ¥105.86-86 at the same time Friday, the previous market day. The euro was at $1.1058-1062, down from $1.1132-1132, and at ...
Shares in SoftBank Group Corp. plunged in Tokyo on Tuesday after it unveiled its ¥3.3 trillion takeover of chip designer ARM Holdings PLC, a deal that marks founder Masayoshi Son’s biggest gamble so far on the future of technology. The shares dropped as much as 11.3 percent to ¥5,329 as ...
As Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda confronts pressures to launch helicopter money, he could do a lot worse than remember the life — and death — of Viscount Korekiyo Takahashi. As Japan’s economic czar in the early 1930s, Takahashi initiated the equivalent of helicopter money, using the BOJ to ...
Inside nearly every smartphone, tablet, e-reader and smartwatch are tiny microprocessors that tell the machine what to do. Small pulses of energy move from a gadget’s battery through millions of tiny transistors, triggering commands and responses in nanoseconds, be it playing games, posting to Facebook, sending texts, or taking pictures. ...
Osaka Exchange Inc. on Tuesday unveiled its new trading technology, the latest bourse to speed up in the hope of luring new, superfast customers. The revamp of the derivatives market’s systems comes 5½ years after the last major makeover launched the J-Gate platform. The upgrade speeds up the amount of ...
New Air France-KLM head Air France-KLM has appointed Jean-Marc Janaillac as new chairman and chief executive officer in replacement of Alexandre de Juniac, effective July 4. Janaillac graduated from the HEC Business School and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration. Since 2012, he has been chairman and CEO of Transdev, an international ...
Rupert Murdoch, executive co-chairman of 21st Century Fox Inc, and his sons, James and Lachlan, agree that Fox News Channel boss Roger Ailes should leave the company but they have not settled on the timing, New York magazine reported on Monday, citing anonymous sources. Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson ...
Yahoo’s latest earnings report leaves no doubt the internet company is stuck in a downward spiral. The company managed to beat Wall Street’s limited expectations for revenue in the April-June quarter. But after subtracting commissions paid to its partners, Yahoo said its revenue fell 19 percent from a year earlier, ...
In an ultimatum, Iranian officials asked iPhone manufacturer Apple Inc. to either officially register in Iran or have its products banned, a local news agency reported Monday. “If Apple will not register an official representative in Iran within the next few days, all iPhones will be collected from the market,” ...
Source: Oxfam Country: Afghanistan, Burundi, China, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, occupied Palestinian territory, Pakistan, Somalia, South Africa, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, World, YemenIn sharp contrast, Jordan, Turkey, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Pakistan and Lebanon host more ...
After making a "compelling" offer, SoftBank Group Corp. agrees to a deal to buy ARM Holdings PLC for $31 billion — the biggest-ever deal for the Japanese carrier under Chairman Masayoshi Son. The post SoftBank agrees to $31 billion deal to buy British mobile chip leader ARM Holdings PLC appeared ...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga rules out the issuance of deficit bonds to fund an economic stimulus package planned for the autumn, but hints at the use of construction bonds. The post Government has no plans to issue deficit bonds to fund planned stimulus package: Suga appeared first on The Japan ...
Laura Jordan came home from work one day to find herself locked out. She had missed two mortgage payments, and the company servicing her loan had changed the locks without warning. In a ruling this month, the Washington Supreme Court found that action illegal — a decision that clears the ...
Japanese companies operating in Turkey scrambled to confirm the safety of their employees on Saturday following a military coup attempt there. The post In wake of coup attempt, Japanese firms in Turkey rush to confirm safety of employees appeared first on The Japan Times.
Japan’s internal affairs ministry is considering a system that will allow companies to pay local taxes online across the country, informed sources said. Such a system will improve convenience for taxpayers and help reduce clerical work and costs at local governments and banks. The system is expected to cover local ...
With Thailand planning to focus on strategic partnerships rather than just trade agreements, Japan's private sector is being urged to function as an intermediary in speeding up trade and investment talks between the countries.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the European Union’s top officials agreed Friday to accelerate negotiations for a free trade deal to reach a broad agreement as soon as possible this year, a Japanese official said. In their talks, Abe and Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, as well as ...
Consumers in Dubai more optimistic about economy, jobs in Q2 than those in Tokyo, Milan, Paris, New York, Bangkok and London
CEO Takeshi Idezawa says the company plans to build trust in its messaging and other services and expand. The post Line Corp. raises ¥100 billion on day one of dual listing in New York, Tokyo appeared first on The Japan Times.
A New York utility plans to approve a wind farm off eastern Long Island that it says would be America’s largest offshore wind energy project built to date. The project would be the first phase of a more ambitious effort to construct hundreds of electricity-producing turbines in the Atlantic Ocean ...