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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
A consortium led by Orix Corp. has started operating two major airports in and around Osaka Prefecture under an unprecedented 44-year privatization contract through March 2060. Kansai Airports hopes to make Kansai International Airport and Osaka International Airport into “world-class airports,” said Yoshiyuki Yamaya, chief executive officer of the consortium ...
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. on Monday resumed production of four minicar models at a plant in western Japan, following a 2½ month suspension as a result of a fuel data manipulation scandal. Some 1,300 employees who had been told to stay home will go back to work at the Mizushima plant ...
Japanese carmaker Mitsubishi Motors (Thailand) remains bullish on its domestic sales and export prospects despite the country's overall sluggish car market and its parent company in Japan being mired in a mileage-cheating scandal.
German arms exports almost doubled last year to their highest level since the beginning of this century, a German newspaper said Sunday, citing a report from the Economy Ministry that is due to be presented to the Cabinet on Wednesday. Newspaper Welt am Sonntag said the value of individual approvals ...
Tesla Motors Inc. says the self-driving feature suspected of being involved in a fatal crash on May 7 is experimental, yet it’s been installed on all 70,000 of its cars since October 2014. For groups that have lobbied for stronger safety rules, that’s precisely what’s wrong with U.S. regulators’ increasingly ...
President Barack Obama is backtracking on his warning that Britain would go to the “back of the queue” for a U.S. trade deal as he tries to contain the fallout from the U.K.’s decision to leave the European Union. The shift in tone illustrates how Britain’s vote has abruptly scrambled ...
Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. posted strong U.S. sales increases in the first six months of 2016 driven by hot demand for sports utility vehicles and trucks while sales at Toyota Motor Corp. slid, data released by Autodata Corp. showed Friday. While the light truck market grew 9.2 ...
Central government tax revenues in fiscal 2015 totaled ¥56.29 trillion, the Finance Ministry said Friday, falling short of a government estimate and making it hard to finance an extra budget expected in the current fiscal year. Tax revenue in the year ending March 31 increased over ¥2.3 trillion from a ...
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. restarted sales of Mitsubishi-produced minicar models on Friday after a 2½-month hiatus following the revelation of fuel-economy data manipulations for the vehicles. Mitsubishi Motors began receiving orders for the eK Wagon and eK Space, with delivery beginning Tuesday, while Nissan resumed selling the ...
Japan was clobbered with a one-two punch Friday morning as weak data and a lackluster business confidence report underscored the slowdown dragging on the world’s No. 3 economy. The poor readings will heap pressure on policymakers to unveil more stimulus, after the yen surged again in the wake of Britain’s ...
Job availability reached the best level in over 24 years and the unemployment rate stayed flat at 3.2 percent in May, the government said Friday, indicating that the country’s labor market remains tight. The job availability ratio improved to 1.36 in May, the highest level since October 1991, the labor ...
Land prices have eked out their first gain since 2008 as overseas investment, rock-bottom interest rates and the Bank of Japan’s stimulus nudged urban housing markets upward. The post Japan land prices up 0.2%; first gain in eight years appeared first on The Japan Times.
Renesas Electronics Corp. is doing something that only a decade ago would have been unthinkable for a Japanese semiconductor maker: outsourcing research overseas. Outsourcing more R&D reduces the cost of developing components for new applications in autonomous cars and “the internet of things,” Chief Executive Officer Bunsei Kure said on ...
Sharp Corp. is to re-enter the European solar panel market in cooperation with Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., sources have said. In the face of weak domestic demand, Sharp plans to expand overseas using the existing sales network of Hon Hai, better known as Foxconn, the sources said. Hon ...
Belarus has redenominated its currency, cutting four zeroes off its face value, as the country struggles with recession. Friday’s redenomination is the third since the nation of 10 million became independent after the 1991 Soviet collapse. The Belarusian ruble, which had traded at 20,000 to the dollar before the move, ...
In effort to crack down on corporations and individuals that evade taxes overseas, representatives from 82 countries agreed to draft criteria that could be used to put non-cooperative nations and jurisdictions on an international blacklist. The two-day meeting, which concluded in Kyoto Friday, was held by the Organization for Economic ...
The Abe administration’s decision to let Japan’s public pension giant play the stock market resulted in a loss of more than ¥5 trillion last year, sources say. The post Pension giant GPIF likely lost over ¥5 trillion playing stock market in 2015 appeared first on The Japan Times.
The dollar gave up early gains and fell to around ¥102.50 in Tokyo trading late Friday, dampened by position-adjustment selling ahead of the weekend. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥102.54-55, down from ¥102.69-70 at the same time Thursday. The euro was at $1.1106-1108, down from $1.1115-1115, and at ...
Consumer confidence improved in June for a second month amid better employment conditions and relatively stable stock markets, the government said Friday. The seasonally adjusted index of sentiment among households made up of two or more people rose 0.9 points to 41.8, the Cabinet Office said. The survey was conducted ...
The Bank of Japan’s new board member has warned that excessive moves in foreign-exchange markets pose risks for economic activity. “It’s undesirable for foreign-exchange rates to move by not reflecting economic fundamentals,” Takako Masai, the board member who officially joined the bank Thursday, said at her inaugural news conference in ...
The benchmark Nikkei average advanced for the fifth straight session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, helped by buying on the back of Wall Street’s overnight rise, but its upside was capped by selling on a rally. The 225-issue Nikkei average climbed 106.56 points, or 0.68 percent, to end at ...