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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Central Japan Railway Co., better known as JR Tokai, said Friday it will introduce a new Shinkansen bullet train model, the N700S, on the Tokaido and Sanyo lines in fiscal 2020. The nose of the new model is designed to reduce air resistance, noise and vibration when the train enters ...
A unit of Nissan Motor Co. has sued South Korea’s Environment Ministry over the alleged emissions manipulation for the Qashqai diesel engine car, Nissan group officials said Friday. Nissan Korea Co. filed the suit with the Seoul Administrative Court on Thursday, disputing the ministry’s criminal complaint against a group official ...
Finance ministers and top central bankers from the Group of Seven warned that Britain’s vote to quit the European Union could have “adverse implications,” after the pound dived to three-decade lows and equity markets flew into a tailspin. “We recognise that excessive volatility and disorderly movements in exchange rates can ...
The dollar drifted around ¥104.40 in Tokyo trading Thursday as a nervous atmosphere prevailed on the day of Britain’s historic referendum on whether to leave or remain in the European Union. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥104.43-43, against ¥104.39-39 at the same time Wednesday. The euro was at ...
Taiwan-based China Airlines cancelled some flights to Asia, including Japan, on Friday as its union commenced an “indefinite” strike late Thursday after negotiations with management broke down. China Airlines announced on its website that beginning Friday, all flights departing between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. from Taoyuan International Airport and ...
NTT Docomo Inc. said a panel awarded the company $1.17 billion in compensation after arbitrators sided with Japan’s largest mobile-phone carrier in a dispute with India’s Tata Sons Ltd. Tata Sons, the holding company of India’s largest conglomerate, has been ordered by the London Court of International Arbitration to pay ...
Japan braces for global market turmoil as the yen spikes above 100 against the dollar and the Nikkei drops over 8 percent. The post Yen leaps on referendum surprise; Nikkei swoons appeared first on The Japan Times.
Tokyo stocks nose-dived on Friday as a flurry of selling prompted by Britain’s decision to exit the European Union sent the benchmark Nikkei average sliding below 15,000 — its lowest close in 20 months. The 225-issue Nikkei average plunged 1,286.33 points, or 7.92 percent, to close at 14,952.02 on the ...
Following Britain’s vote to leave the European Union in Thursday’s referendum, the dollar briefly plummeted below ¥100 in Tokyo on Friday, breaching the key line for the first time in two years and seven months. The pound and euro also tanked against other top currencies as Britain’s potential exit from ...
A Bank of Japan policymaker said there is a need to further ease monetary policy to emphasize its commitment to the central bank’s 2 percent inflation target, a summary of opinions from the June policy meeting said Friday. There was a contradicting view, however, with one policymaker arguing the BOJ ...
Transport minister Keiichi Ishii summoned Suzuki Motor Corp.’s top executives Friday and ordered them to take measures to prevent noncompliant mileage tests from recurring. Suzuki’s conduct planted “significant distrust among users and hurt trust in the auto industry,” the minister told Suzuki Chairman Osamu Suzuki and President Toshihiro Suzuki during ...
A little-known Tokyo-based company’s commitment to biomass has made it a darling among investors. As of the end of trade Wednesday, First Energy Service Co. had jumped 42 percent in the past month, making it the top performer on the Topix index, which lost 4.4 percent in the same period. ...
Activist short-seller Glaucus Research Group says it’s planning to target Japan Inc. The U.S.-based investor is investigating a couple of Japanese companies and plans to publish reports on them in about four or five weeks, Soren Aandahl, director of research, said in an interview in Tokyo, declining to name them. ...
Honda Motor Co. is recalling a further 147,894 vehicles in Malaysia over potentially defective air bags made by Takata Corp. that have been linked to the deaths of more than a dozen people worldwide. Honda Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. said in a statement Thursday that owners of eight models — the ...
The pound and euro both soared Thursday amid growing market confidence that Britain would vote to keep their country a member of the European Union. The pound topped $1.50 an hour after polls closed at 2100 GMT, after trading higher against the dollar all day as investors hoped the Brexit ...
Trading house Itochu Corp. and China’s CITIC Resources Holdings Ltd. are to kick off joint projects in oil and gas production. An agreement calls on Itochu and the unit of CITIC Ltd., a Chinese state-owned conglomerate, to pursue joint acquisitions of oil and gas exploration and production assets, Itochu said ...
A day after stepping into his new role, Toshiba Corp. President Satoshi Tsunakawa has cautioned that the company is still recovering from a bruising accounting scandal and faces a lengthy turnaround process. “We are not even at the halfway point yet,” Tsunakawa said in a group interview in Tokyo on ...
How do you know if you’ve got that winning smile? There’s an app for that. Japanese cosmetics firm Shiseido says it has come up with a system to rate a person’s smile by measuring facial movements. Users look into a tablet device with the app, and it gives them a ...
Japan’s $1.3 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund is suing Toshiba Corp. for losses on its investments after an accounting scandal sent the conglomerate’s shares plunging. GPIF is seeking damages of about ¥900 million, said Shinichirou Mori, a spokesman for the fund. The losses related to shares bought by GPIF’s external ...
Lifetime employment sounds like a great thing, but not if you hate where you work. That seems to be the plight of Japanese “salarymen” and “office ladies.” Only 22 percent of Japanese workers have “a great deal of trust” in their employers, which is way below the average of eight ...
The surprise departure of Nikesh Arora, heir apparent at SoftBank Group Corp., highlights a problem many Japanese companies face: passing the reins to a successor. SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son, 58, said Tuesday he wants to remain at the helm of the company he built from a computer software distributor into ...