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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The dollar hovered around ¥101 in Tokyo trading late Thursday after moving in a narrow range in the absence of major trading factors. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥101.02-02, up slightly from ¥100.98-99 at the same time Wednesday. The euro was at $1.1063-1063, roughly unchanged from $1.1065-1065, and ...
Japan Atomic Power Co. will join Hitachi Ltd.’s nuclear power plant business in Britain, informed sources said Thursday. The two companies will soon sign a cooperation agreement to make Japan Atomic Power the first Japanese power supplier to take part in an overseas nuclear power plant business in full scale. ...
A batch of Ruby Roman table grapes, one of the most expensive in Japan, fetched a record ¥1.1 million ($10,900) Thursday in the year’s first auction at a wholesale market in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, beating last year’s ¥1 million bid. Of the 46 batches of Ruby Roman grapes auctioned off, ...
Mizuho Financial Group Inc. is increasing its pool of bankers who advise small Japanese businesses on matters ranging from investing to going public as part of a push to spur fee income at the nation’s third-biggest banking group. Tokyo-based Mizuho seeks to boost the number of bankers covering small and ...
Secondo le stime di ICE (Agenzia per la promozione all'estero e l'internazionalizzazione delle imprese italiane) nel periodo gennaio-maggio di quest'anno l'export del Made in Italy registra una ripresa in yen. Ciò è testimonianza del dinamismo delle piccole imprese del Made in Italy che, puntando sulla qualita' e l'innovazione, cercano di accelerare ...
More than 500,000 hoverboards are being recalled after some of the motorized scooters overheated, burned riders and damaged property. There have been 99 reports to the Consumer Product Safety Commission of hoverboard battery packs that exploded or caught fire, the U.S. regulator said Wednesday. At least 18 injuries were reported, ...
French drugmaker Sanofi said on Wednesday it had struck a research and development deal with the U.S. Army to speed up the development of a vaccine against the mosquito-borne Zika virus. Sanofi is the only major drugmaker working on a vaccine against Zika, which has been linked to birth defects ...
The government will consider tapping into 50 emerging cities for investment opportunities based on information provided by Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro).
Facebook Japan has launched a music streaming function, Music Stories, on the Japanese version of its social networking platform. “The function was announced in the U.S. in November last year. Music streaming services AWA and D Hits have cooperated with us to make it available in Japan,” Facebook Japan spokesman ...
Mazda Motor Corp.’s Chinese joint venture will recall 74,310 of its Mazda2 sedans in China to replace Takata Corp. air bags after an investigation by the country’s safety regulator. China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said Mazda will contact affected vehicle owners through their authorized dealers and ...
A woman injured due to the rupture of a Takata Corp. air bag in a collision dropped her criminal complaint against the auto parts maker, as she apparently reached a settlement, investigative sources said Wednesday. The woman in her 60s, a resident of Kanagawa Prefecture, was sitting in the passenger ...
The dollar stayed on a weak note around ¥101 in Tokyo trading late Wednesday, as market players remained risk-averse due to economic concern in the wake of Britain’s vote last month to leave the European Union. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥100.98-99, down from ¥101.74-74 at the same ...
Stocks retreated sharply on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Wednesday, with export-oriented names taking a beating amid the strong yen and financials weathering fears over Europe’s banking system. The Nikkei average lost 290.34 points, or 1.85 percent, to end at 15,378.99. On Tuesday, it slumped 106.47 points. The Topix index ...
The Bank of Japan wrote down the value of its holdings of government debt by ¥874 billion ($8.5 billion) in the last fiscal year, undercutting the income from its still profitable asset-purchase program. With yields below zero, the central bank is buying debt at prices higher than the face value. ...
The Fair Trade Commission warned nine publishers on Wednesday over gratuities paid to teachers for feedback on school textbooks undergoing government screening. The FTC pointed out that such practice might violate the antimonopoly law that bans attracting customers by providing unfair benefits. The antitrust watchdog also said preventive measures by ...
The average pay hike won in this year’s shunto annual labor-management negotiations across Japan shrank 0.20 percentage points from the previous year to 2 percent, according to a survey by the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo. Even though the margin narrowed amid uncertainty over corporate earnings stemming from the ...
Carlos Ghosn has tasked one of his top lieutenants at Nissan Motor Co. to identify cost savings at Mitsubishi Motors Corp. as it acquires a stake in the rival automaker. Chief Competitive Officer Hiroto Saikawa, 62, is leading a team to find areas where the companies can save costs and ...
Car maker Toyota said Wednesday it is letting go of at least 800 workers at its factories in Thailand under a voluntary departure program, a reflection of deepening troubles in the Thai automotive industry. Toyota Motor Thailand said in a statement that it aims to reduce by up to 900 ...
The British pound dropped sharply to a new 31-year low on Tuesday amid concerns that the country’s decision to leave the European Union might cause a steep slide in U.K. commercial real estate values and hurt the wider economy. Markets were jittery after three financial firms stopped trading in their ...
Investors who put their money in Stratton Street Capital LLP’s warrant fund have been on a roller-coaster ride of late. The fund, Japan’s best-performing in 2015, plunged 25 percent on June 24 when the U.K. voted to leave the European Union, bringing its drop this year to 50 percent. The ...
The jackpot for Tuesday night’s Mega Millions lottery drawing has swollen to $454 million, making it one of the 10 largest prizes in U.S. lottery history, lottery officials said. A drawing for the multistate Mega Millions prize will be held at 11 p.m. EDT (0300 GMT) and aired and streamed ...