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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
SAS celebrates milestone Scandinavian Airlines celebrated its 70th anniversary with the company’s CCO Eivind Roald and 100 distinguished guests on June 13 at the Bulgari Hotels & Resorts Tokyo Rstaurants in the Ginza district. Roald talked about the long history and strengths of the airline, which was established in 1946 ...
A $35,000 payment for “web advertising” in Donald Trump’s most recent campaign finance filings is turning heads because of the firm’s name: Draper Sterling. “Draper” and “Sterling” are the last names of two characters in the television show Mad Men, a fictional drama about a 1950s advertising firm called Sterling ...
A former Google executive who was seen as the heir apparent to the founder of mobile communications giant SoftBank has resigned because of a conflict over the timeline for his succession, the company announced Tuesday. SoftBank had just hours earlier cleared Nikesh Arora after an investor group accused him of ...
U.S. aerospace giant Boeing and Iran Air confirmed Tuesday a tentative deal for the sale of passenger planes, in what could prove a landmark for easing in the difficult U.S.-Iran relationship. The deal, valued as much as $25 billion, would be the largest between a U.S. business and Iran since ...
[Daily Trust] The President of Toshoku Company Limited of Japan, Mr. Zentaro Iwamoto, has expressed the readiness of his company to establish its presence in Nigeria by growing large farm of soya beans and sorghum and processing them into flour for export around the world.
Uber Technologies Inc. and Airbnb Inc. have set their sights on global expansion. They are about to face a global response. Mayors from New York to Paris and Seoul think they have found the trick to coping with so-called “sharing economy” apps — working together. Ten markets are jointly preparing ...
Stocks wiped out early losses to close firmer in thin Tokyo trading on Tuesday, with the Nikkei average ending above 16,000. It rose 203.81 points, or 1.28 percent, to end at 16,169.11, its first finish above 16,000 since June 13. On Monday, the Nikkei gained 365.64 points. The Topix index ...
The transport ministry said Tuesday the fuel economy of four Mitsubishi Motors Corp. minicar models at the center of a mileage scandal was on average 11 percent worse than advertised. Tests on 33 vehicles found that their fuel economy was between 5 and 16 percent below that claimed, according to ...
Finance Minister Taro Aso said Tuesday the government will not rush to weaken the yen, although sharp swings in the currency markets are “undesirable.” “Regarding currency intervention, we will not do it so easily,” Aso told a news conference. He added, any action the government takes will fall within the ...
With centuries of tradition on their side, Japan’s hordes of naked bathers remain unmoved by the island nation’s bid to tap a rich reserve of power equivalent to about 20 nuclear reactors. The resource-poor country, which last year spent ¥18.2 trillion importing fossil fuels, has the world’s third-largest geothermal reserves, ...
Minutes from the Bank of Japan’s April policy meeting showed some members expressed misgivings over its negative interest rate policy. “A few members argued that the negative interest rate policy would impair the functioning of financial markets and financial intermediation as well as stability of the JGB market,” according to ...
The ratio of Japanese stocks held by foreign investors at the end of fiscal 2015 was down 1.9 percentage points from a year earlier at 29.8 percent, data showed Monday. It was the first decline in four years. The figure reflects the departure of nonresidents from Japanese stock markets in ...
Nissan said it would take legal action against the official campaign for Britain to leave the European Union after the group used the Japanese carmaker’s logo in leaflets calling for voters to back Brexit on June 23. On one “Vote Leave” flyer, the firm’s logo appeared next to those of ...
Japan is falling short of its economic targets and needs to reload the “three arrows” of “Abenomics” to support higher wages and labor-market reforms, the International Monetary Fund said in a report published Monday. “Under current policies, the high nominal growth goal, the inflation target, and the primary budget surplus ...
The dollar climbed to trade at levels above ¥104.50 in late Tokyo trading on Monday as the British pound surged on a weekend British survey that suggested more British citizens are now ready to vote on Thursday for their country to remain in the European Union than to leave it. ...
Shipments of white goods in May increased 1.3 percent from a year earlier to ¥177.5 billion, up for the 13th month in a row, the Japan Electrical Manufacturers’ Association said Monday. Washing machines led the pack with a 19.7 percent increase in shipments to ¥23.1 billion. They marked the fifth ...
Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s largest automaker, warned a withdrawal by Britain from the European Union may lead to levies of as much as 10 percent on the cars it builds in the U.K. Brexit would challenge Toyota to cut costs or make its cars more expensive and hurt sales, ...
HONG KONG - When it comes to hefty trade surpluses, the likes of China, Japan, Germany and South Korea make the list of usual suspects.
Netflix Inc. intends to produce more original Japanese television shows after the series it introduced earlier this month beat the company’s expectations by drawing viewers from Brazil to Germany and the U.S. The 10-episode “Hibana” production is showing that Japanese content can draw global audiences, Greg Peters, president of Netflix ...
The private space company run by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has completed its fourth successful unmanned rocket launch and safe landing in West Texas using the same vehicle. Officials with Blue Origin say the latest launch of New Shepard happened Sunday morning near Van Horn. The rocket landed upright, with ...
Stocks advanced sharply on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday thanks to a pause in the yen’s appreciation on the back of receding worries about Britain’s possible exit from the European Union, or “Brexit.” The 225-issue Nikkei average gained 365.64 points, or 2.34 percent, to close at 15,965.30. On Friday, ...