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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Japan’s three leading automakers expect a stronger yen will cost them around $14 billion in lost operating profit this year alone — just as they need to invest more in everything from cleaner fuel to driverless cars. After three years of supernormal profits on the back of a weaker currency, ...
The state of Hawaii is suing Japanese manufacturer Takata over defective air bags they say threaten peoples’ lives. The lawsuit filed Friday in the First Circuit Court of Hawaii also names auto manufacturer Honda. Millions of Takata’s defective air bags have been recalled because their inflators can explode, spewing shrapnel ...
Japan will start a new system to guarantee equal pay for equal work in fiscal 2019 after drawing up related guidelines by fiscal 2018, a draft of its forthcoming “dynamic society” plan showed Friday. The plan, expected to be adopted at a Cabinet meeting on May 31, will include a ...
The government is studying the feasibility of requiring automakers to publish fuel economy data taken under multiple conditions in their sales brochures just like the rest of the world does, transport ministry sources said. If realized, companies would have to state fuel efficiency data figures in such specific conditions such ...
SoftBank Group Corp. is considering selling its stake in the Finnish gaming company Supercell Oy, according to people familiar with the matter. Supercell, which makes games for mobile phones including “Clash of Clans” and “Boom Beach,” has held talks with potential strategic buyers based in China, the people said. The ...
Honda Motor Co. said Friday its net profit fell 32.4 percent in the business year ended in March, as costs related to a recall of defective air bag inflators made by Takata Corp. offset solid sales in North America and Asia. Honda, the nation’s third-biggest carmaker by volume, posted a ...
Hawaiian Airlines on Friday secured the right to begin flying nonstop between Tokyo and Kailua-Kona, bringing a regularly scheduled direct flight between Japan and the Big Island for the first time since 2010. The U.S. Department of Transportation said it had awarded a new nighttime slot at Haneda International Airport ...
Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn said Friday the company will help Mitsubishi Motors Corp. under their planned tie-up to regain public trust damaged by a fuel economy scandal, although it will not be easy. “The biggest challenge is to support Mitsubishi changing itself and growing and being profitable, and ...
It’s learned that a product development head consented to data fabrication in consultation with a testing subsidiary manager. The post Mitsubishi Motors fuel efficiency scandal may have been organized from top down appeared first on The Japan Times.
The dollar fell below ¥109 in Tokyo trading on Friday, pressured by a slide in stocks. The dollar was at ¥108.78-79 at 5 p.m., down from ¥108.93-94 at the same time Thursday. The euro was at $1.1344-1344, down from $1.1407-1408, and at ¥123.40-45, down from ¥124.26-27. The dollar rose above ...
The Nikkei average snapped its four-day winning streak Friday, pressured by selling to lock in gains ahead of the release of overseas economic data. It lost 234.13 points, or 1.41 percent, to close at 16,412.21 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange following Thursday’s rise of 67.33 points. The Topix index finished ...
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. teamed with its largest shareholder SoftBank Group Corp. to form a cloud computing service venture targeting Japanese customers as the Chinese e-commerce giant expands one of its fastest growing businesses. The venture known as SB Cloud Corp. will open a new data center in Japan to ...
Japan’s top three mobile carriers NTT Docomo Inc., KDDI Corp. and SoftBank Group Corp. posted higher operating profits in fiscal 2015, thanks in part to greater use of data streaming on smartphones. NTT Docomo saw operating profit rise 22.5 percent to ¥783 billion, the first increase in four years, while ...
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said Friday the bank has “ample space” for additional monetary easing, reminding the market that further stimulus is possible despite the central bank’s decision to stand pat last month. “There is no doubt that ample space for additional easing” remains in terms of quantity, ...
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. and Hitachi Ltd. said Friday they will form a capital and business alliance in financial services, with an eye to integrating their leasing companies in the future. Japan’s largest lender hopes the alliance will help expand business in the area of financing infrastructure development because ...
Two days before Mitsubishi Motors Corp. went public with news it had overstated the fuel economy of its cars, Chairman Osamu Masuko visited Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn for a mea culpa. It did not take long for talk to turn from an apology to a deal. Three weeks ...
Honda Motor Co.’s Thai unit on Thursday officially opened a new assembly and engine plant around 120 km northeast of Bangkok. Construction of the plant at the Rojana Industrial Park began in 2013, with the automaker investing 17.15 billion baht (around $485 million). It will have a maximum production capacity ...
McDonald’s says it’s testing fresh beef at 14 restaurants in Dallas, but says it’s too early to say whether fresh beef could replace its frozen patties nationally. The Oak Brook, Illinois, company says the test is limited to its quarter pounder patties. “Like all of our tests, this one too ...
Shares of Apple sank below $90 for the first time in nearly two years Thursday, ceding the title of the world’s largest company by market valuation to Google. With investors souring on the outlook for sales of its market-leading iPhones and iPads, and no new blockbuster consumer electronics product in ...
The head of a Nebraska utility recommended shutting down the nation’s smallest nuclear power plant by the end of the year, saying Thursday that it doesn’t make economic sense to keep it open. Tim Burke, the president and CEO of the Omaha Public Power District, told the utility’s board that ...
Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. boss Terry Gou wasted little time addressing his newly acquired employees at Sharp Corp., warning of job cuts while promising to reward workers who put their “heart and soul” into rebuilding one of the world’s iconic brands. After Sharp’s results were released Thursday, in ...