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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The possible future of transit zipped along a short track in the desert outside Las Vegas on Wednesday before sliding to a stop in a bed of sand, sending up a tan wave. Hyperloop One, a startup hoping to revolutionize transport systems, held its first public test of engine components ...
Yusaku Maezawa, the 40-year-old founder of online clothing retailer Zozotown, continued his art shopping spree on Wednesday, helping Sotheby’s reach $242.2 million in sales at its contemporary art auction even as the art market continues to contract. Maezawa said he is building a private museum outside Tokyo. Sotheby’s evening sale ...
Nissan Motor Co. is in talks to take a 34% stake in Mitsubishi Motors Corp., the automakers said Thursday. The post Stricken Mitsubishi in talks with Nissan over ¥237 billion stake appeared first on The Japan Times.
The dollar shed losses to rise above ¥108.50 in Tokyo on Thursday as risk aversion receded and stocks climbed. At 5 p.m., the dollar was at ¥108.93-94, up from ¥108.60-61 at the same time Wednesday. The euro was at $1.1407-1408, up from $1.1388-1388, and at ¥124.26-27, up from ¥123.69-69. The ...
Toshiba said Thursday that it suffered a ¥483.2 billion full-year net loss as the troubled conglomerate booked a massive writedown of its U.S. nuclear unit. It said the worst was over and forecast profits for the current business year. Once a proud pillar of corporate Japan, Toshiba has been besieged ...
Sharp Corp. posted a second straight annual loss and said its liabilities exceeded its assets, highlighting the turnaround challenge facing new owner Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., also known as Foxconn Technology Group. The net loss was ¥256 billion in the year ended March, from a loss of ¥222.3 billion ...
The Nikkei average extended its winning streak to a fourth session on Thursday, buoyed by the yen’s weakening. The Nikkei advanced 67.33 points, or 0.41 percent, to end at 16,646.34. On Wednesday it gained 13.82 points. The Topix index climbed 2.97 points, or 0.22 percent, to close at 1,337.27, after ...
The European Union has asked Japan to open up its market for goods and services procurement in municipalities with a population of 100,000 or more as the two economic powers work toward signing a free trade agreement, EU documents and sources said Thursday. While it remains unclear how many EU ...
The nation’s current account surplus doubled in fiscal 2015 from the previous year to ¥17.98 trillion, buoyed by lower crude oil prices and a surge in travel surplus on the back of a growing number of foreign tourists, the government said Thursday. Cheap crude oil helped reduce goods imports despite ...
McDonald’s Holdings Co. (Japan)’s first-quarter loss narrowed as the fast-food chain won back some customers after being hit by a series of food safety scandals. The net loss was ¥176 million for the three months ended March 31 compared with ¥14.6 billion a year earlier, the Japan unit of McDonald’s ...
Electronics maker Sharp Corp., currently undergoing restructuring in a buy-out by Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., is looking to appoint a close aide of Hon Hai’s chief as its new president, sources close to the matter said Thursday. Tai Jeng-wu is vice chairman of Hon Hai, also known as ...
Nissan Motor Co will purchase a 34% stake in Mitsubishi Motors Corp, as Japan’s second-largest automaker comes to the aid of its minicar partner rocked by a fuel-economy testing scandal.
Some Chinese state-owned entities backed by the key government agency that oversees major state industrial companies have adopted a controversial defense when they face U.S. lawsuits: You can not touch us because we enjoy sovereign immunity. Aviation Industry Corp. of China (AVIC), China’s biggest state-owned aerospace and defense company, has ...
In cities across America, the middle class is hollowing out. A widening wealth gap is moving more households into either higher- or lower-income groups in major metro areas, with fewer remaining in the middle, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center. In nearly one-quarter of metro ...
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. plans to step up its sales pitch for its Mitsubishi Regional Jet, Japan’s first domestically produced passenger jet, particularly in Latin America, according to the chairman of its U.S. unit. “We want to grab customers away” from Embraer, a Brazilian aerospace conglomerate that is strong in the ...
East Japan Railway Co. will start luxury train tours using the 10-car Train Suite Shiki-Shima next May 1, JR East President Tetsuro Tomita has said. Between May and June 2017, JR East will offer two-day and four-day trips. Ticket prices will range between ¥320,000 and ¥950,000, making the Shiki-Shima tours ...
Nissan Motor Co is in advanced talks to take a roughly one-third stake in Mitsubishi Motors Corp with a $1.8 billion investment, as Mitsubishi struggles with a fuel-economy data scandal, two sources said. If the ¥200 billion deal goes through, Nissan, Japan’s second-largest automaker by sales, would become the largest ...
The company has said it used improper methods to test fuel economy for 25 years, and on Wednesday it said every model it sold in Japan was affected.
Scandal-stricken Takata on Wednesday logged an annual net loss of ¥13.08 billion as the company struggles with massive recalls over exploding air bag inflators. The problem has been tied to 13 deaths in the United States and Malaysia. U.S. auto safety regulators last week ordered Takata to recall between 35 ...
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said Wednesday it may have falsified data for the fuel efficiency tests of more vehicle models, including the nine models sold currently and in the past on top of the four already identified While manipulated data may have been used, the Tokyo-based automaker said it has conducted ...
USJ Co., the operating company of Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, said Wednesday that it has dropped a much heralded plan to open a theme park in Okinawa Prefecture, in whose economy the government saw the project playing a key part. USJ Chief Executive Jean-Louis Bonnier informed Hiroto Izumi, special ...