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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Japanese policymakers are in frequent contact with their European counterparts on how to soothe markets if Britain votes to leave the European Union, with the first line of defense aimed at preventing a shortage of dollar liquidity. The Bank of Japan is ready to offer dollar funds to domestic banks ...
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. will this fall launch a company to farm rice, officials said Wednesday. It will be Japan’s first major bank to enter the agricultural sector. The banking unit of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. aims to improve agricultural productivity and expand market channels by utilizing its funds ...
Stocks turned higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday, buoyed by buybacks after their recent fall. The 225-issue Nikkei average gained 60.58 points, or 0.38 percent, to close at 15,919.58. On Tuesday, the key market gauge lost 160.18 points. The Topix index of all first-section issues finished up 5.18 points, ...
About 27 percent of electric fan users in Japan have experienced defects including funny noises, a government online survey found. The survey by the Consumer Affairs Agency was conducted in response to a series of fires attributed to aging fans. The agency is urging people to stop using their fans ...
The firm reveals it used improper fuel economy data on more than 10 models that are no longer being sold. The post Mitsubishi Motors used improper fuel economy data on over 10 older models: sources appeared first on The Japan Times.
Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co. has begun offering a type of insurance intended to ease the concern of hot spring operators about the impact of new geothermal power stations. Developers of geothermal power projects can now buy an insurance policy that covers the expense for surveys to determine ...
The Japan Tourism Agency on Wednesday ordered JTB Corp. to file a report and take preventive measures by June 24 after the major travel agency said it fears personal information on 7.93 million people has been leaked through unauthorized access to its server. The information includes customer names, addresses, email ...
After the mega-deal for LinkedIn, Twitter’s future has come into focus as the industry ponders the outlook for social networks. Microsoft’s $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn announced Monday, the biggest-ever deal for a social media company, sent Twitter shares surging nearly 10 percent over the past two days. Even though ...
After Larossi Abballa killed a French police commander and the commander’s partner on Tuesday, he took to Facebook Live to encourage viewers in a 12-minute video to follow his example: Kill prison staff, police officials, journalists, lawmakers. The incident underscores the immense challenges companies such as Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc ...
The rapid spread of internet services has accelerated the shortage of information technology engineers, prompting IT companies to conduct in-house reforms to lower turnover and outsource orders to overseas firms. ISA Plan Inc., a contract systems developer, introduced a system in fiscal 2010 under which employees choose leaders from among ...
Japanese clothing chain Uniqlo has leveraged its prowess in mass production to build a fashion empire filled with shelves upon shelves of affordable, good quality items like down jackets, underwear and T-shirts. Now the 17-nation, 1,734-store retailer is on a quest to beat Western giants like Gap, H&M and Zara ...
A U.S. appeals court upheld the Obama administration’s landmark rules barring internet service providers from obstructing or slowing down consumer access to web content on Tuesday, dealing a blow to big cable and mobile phone companies. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ...
The total amount of money contributed under the furusato nozei hometown donation system in Japan in fiscal 2015 grew 4.3-fold from the previous year to ¥165.3 billion, the internal affair ministry said Tuesday. Under the system, introduced in May 2008, people can make donations to municipalities and prefectures of their ...
Sony Interactive Entertainment on Monday said its keenly awaited PlayStation virtual reality headset will hit the market on Oct. 13 as rival Microsoft unveiled a leaner Xbox One model and a lineup of coming games. In separate press events on the eve of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game ...
Major travel agency JTB Corp. said personal information on some 7.93 million people is feared to have been leaked through unauthorized access to its server. The information includes customer names, addresses, email addresses and passport numbers. Around 4,300 passport numbers that may have been leaked are still valid, JTB said ...
The dollar extended losses and fluctuated around ¥105.80 in Tokyo trading Tuesday, weighed down by the weak pound sterling. At 5 p.m., the greenback stood at ¥105.85-85, down from ¥106.10-10 at the same time Monday. The euro was at $1.1251-1251, down from $1.1269-1270, and at ¥119.09-10, down from ¥119.57-58. After ...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., the biggest shareholder in Mitsubishi Motors Corp., will hold onto its stake in the automaker that Carlos Ghosn is seeking to turn around following a fuel-economy test scandal. The maker of power plant equipment, aircraft and ships will refrain from selling its holdings in Mitsubishi Motors ...
The Nikkei average closed below 16,000 for the first time in about two months Tuesday, with investors fretting over Britain’s possible exit from the European Union. The Nikkei dipped 160.18 points, or 1 percent, to end at 15,859.00. On Monday, it dived 582.18 points. The Topix index closed down 12.61 ...
Donations to municipalities that qualify as tax-deductable soared over fourfold in fiscal 2015 from a year earlier, the government said Tuesday. The donations in fiscal 2015 totaled ¥165.29 billion, compared with ¥38.85 billion in fiscal 2014, the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry said. It attributed the surge to the doubling ...
Sony Corp. said Monday its landmark building in Tokyo’s Ginza shopping district will be torn down after it closes in March 2017. The land the Sony Building stands on, a 707 sq.-meter plot at the Sukiyabashi intersection, will be cleared to make way for a park from 2018 through the ...
Fitch Ratings on Monday slashed its outlook on Japanese government bonds to negative from stable, citing a lack of specific steps to achieve the country’s fiscal reform goal following another delay in the consumption tax hike. “The outlook revision primarily reflects Fitch’s decreased confidence in the Japanese authorities’ commitment to ...