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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The researcher hired by Toyota Motor Corp. to spearhead its robotics and artificial intelligence efforts says the automaker’s production principles can be applied to build affordable helper robots for rapidly aging societies. Robot makers are struggling with the same scale challenges that the auto industry overcame with the “miracle” that ...
Japan posted a goods trade deficit of ¥40.7 billion in May for the first red ink in four months, the government said Monday, with the balance weighed down by sluggish exports amid a slowdown in overseas economies. The value of exports dropped 11.3 percent from a year earlier to ¥5.09 ...
Finally, a financial flare-up that the world’s central banks will have seen coming. On Friday morning London time — when the results of a U.K. referendum will show whether the nation has or has not chosen to leave the European Union — the Bank of Japan and the Swiss National ...
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Mitsubishi Motors plans to give ¥100,000 to each Japanese owner of an MMC car as compensation for inflated mileage and extra gas costs. The automaker said Friday it will take a ¥50 billion charge to cover mileage-rigging expenses, including for the eK minicar models sold in the nation since 2013, ...
Experts say it’s too soon to gauge whether a week of horrific news out of Orlando will hurt tourism there. But travel agents are not seeing widespread cancellations, and many travelers say they’re committed to visiting. “I had more people worrying last year about, ‘Should I postpone my trip because ...
California is now the sixth-largest economy in the world, surpassing France, thanks to a robust state economy and a strong U.S. dollar. California was the world’s eighth-largest economy in 2014, Irena Asmundson, chief economist of the California Department of Finance, said in a phone interview on Friday. “California did exceptionally ...
The IMF has warned that an exit from the EU could deal the British economy a “negative and substantial” blow, and Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested David Cameron is trying to “blackmail” Europe with the referendum. The Times newspaper came out Saturday in favor of Britain staying in the European ...
Mitsubishi Motors is giving ¥100,000 ($960) to each Japanese owner of an MMC car as a compensation for inflated mileage and extra gas costs. The automaker said Friday it will take a ¥50 billion ($913 million) charge to cover mileage-rigging expenses, including for the eK minicar models sold in Japan ...
The proportion of companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s first section that already have multiple independent outside directors or plan to appoint two or more such directors at shareholder meetings in the near future stands at 77.9 percent, up 29.5 percentage points from a year ago, the TSE has said. ...
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said Friday that 20 models sold over the past 10 years are affected by the ongoing fuel economy scandal and it plans to post a ¥50 billion special loss for compensating customers. Mitsubishi Motors admitted it inflated the fuel economy data of some models, used testing methods ...
Japanese refiner Idemitsu Kosan Co and smaller rival Showa Shell Sekiyu will merge on April 1 next year, the two companies said on Friday. Japan’s No.2 and No.5 refiners by revenue agreed last November in a deal worth about $4 billion to create the nation’s second-biggest refiner sometime between October ...
The dollar rebounded above ¥104 in Tokyo trading Friday on buybacks, but its topside was capped by lingering uncertainties over Britain’s national referendum next week on whether to leave the European Union. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥104.24-24, up from ¥103.93-93 at the same time Thursday. The British ...
The nation’s public pension funds bought domestic stocks and sold bonds last quarter as equities posted their worst start to a year in two decades and yields plumbed new depths below zero. The funds purchased ¥965.4 billion worth of local shares in the three months ended March 31, and sold ...
The number of subscribers to low-cost smartphone services has been growing rapidly. The number rose 65.5 percent to 5.39 million at the end of March from a year before and is expected to reach 11.7 million by the end of March 2018, MM Research Institute Ltd. said. Low-cost smartphone services ...
From the immediate possibility of Britain leaving the European Union to the longer-term consequences of aging populations, the world’s major central banks this week just are not sure what to do next. Officials from the U.S., Japan, the U.K. and Switzerland all opted to keep monetary policy unchanged this week ...
Japan is headed for another lost decade as the economy faces prolonged stagnation and the yen will probably strengthen more as deflation continues, Moody’s Analytics said. The yen surged to its strongest level in almost two years against the dollar Thursday, touching 103.55, after the Bank of Japan held back ...
Assets held by Japanese households dropped 0.6 percent at the end of March from a year earlier to ¥1.7 quadrillion, taking a hit from a strong yen and subsequent sharp falls in stock prices, Bank of Japan data showed Friday. The figure, which fell from a record-high of ¥1.74 quadrillion ...
The yen weakened slightly Friday but then continued strengthening again as traders doubted Japan’s ability to rein in the currency’s rally to a 22-month high. The post Government expresses ‘urgency’ over yen’s 6% gain this month appeared first on The Japan Times.
Stocks staged a rally on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, backed by buybacks and buying on dips following the previous day’s plunge. The 225-issue Nikkei average rose 165.52 points, or 1.07 percent, to end at 15,599.66. On Thursday, the key market gauge tumbled 485.44 points to end at the lowest ...
The government Friday maintained its assessment that the domestic economy is recovering moderately, while downgrading its view of corporate profits due to falling commodity prices and a firmer yen. The Cabinet Office said in its report for the fourth straight month that the economy is experiencing “a moderate recovery, while ...