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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The nation’s financial regulator is stepping up oversight of its biggest banks while stopping well short of imposing the type of intrusive stress tests that have been adopted in the U.S. and Europe. Unlike the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, which conduct annual examinations of the large banks ...
Mercoledì 11 maggio 2016, alle ore 11.00, si terrà al Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale l’evento celebrativo dei 150 anni di Relazioni Diplomatiche tra Italia e Giappone, che si svolge nell’ambito delle manifestazioni previste per la nuova edizione di “Farnesina Porte Aperte”. Il Direttore Generale per la Mondializzazione ...
A group of journalists released online on Tuesday Japan time further information on leaked documents dubbed the "Panama Papers," which rocked the world by implicating key politicians and business leaders in massive tax evasion.
Fending off an unsolicited takeover by the owner of USA Today, Chicago’s Tribune Publishing has adopted a shareholder rights plan, better known as “poison pill.” Gannett offered to buy Tribune Publishing last month for more than $388 million. Tribune rejected the offer last week, saying the price was too low. ...
The Bank of Japan said Monday its website states that two of its Policy Board members “completed a PhD program in economics” at the University of Tokyo graduate school, not that they held doctoral degrees. The brief website biographies for BOJ Deputy Gov. Kikuo Iwata and Policy Board member Makoto ...
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ tax and benefit plans would raise income for most Americans but his proposal for single-payer health care would help generate record federal deficits, two Washington think tanks said on Monday. An analysis by the Tax Policy Center said that although most people would pay ...
Krispy Kreme shareholders got a caffeine boost after coffee giant JAB Beech said Monday it is acquiring the doughnut chain. The Luxembourg-based investment firm, which owns Keurig Green Mountain, Peet’s Coffee & Tea and Caribou Coffee, said it is taking the North Carolina doughnut company private in a deal worth ...
Canadian mining company Lucara Diamond on Monday announced the sale of a huge 813-carat diamond for a record $63 million (€55 million). The sale of the massive “Constellation” diamond was “the highest price ever achieved for a rough diamond, breaking all records,” CEO William Lamb said in a statement. The ...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday backtracked on his remarks about raising taxes on wealthy Americans, saying the rich might simply get a smaller tax cut than he originally proposed. Trump walked away from his comment on Sunday that taxes on the wealthy would “go up” once his broad ...
Hokkaido Railway Co. said Monday that it posted an operating loss of ¥44.7 billion for fiscal 2015, exceeding ¥40 billion for the first time in 20 years. The red ink for the year that ended in March was far larger than a loss of ¥38.9 billion for the previous year. ...
Japanese auto parts maker Takata Corp. is expecting a loss instead of a profit for the fiscal year that ended in March because of ballooning costs from a massive global air-bag recall. Tokyo-based Takata, which is set to give its earnings report Wednesday, said Monday it is projecting an annual ...
Sumitomo Corp. warned that its business outlook is becoming more uncertain after missing its full-year profit target due to widening impairments on its resources investments. The Tokyo-based trading house said net income in the year through March was ¥74.5 billion, below the ¥100 billion it had forecast in February, after ...
In a bid to grow their businesses and plug talent shortages, regional small and midsize companies are increasingly trying to poach managers and other senior staff from big firms in major cities such as Tokyo and Osaka. At a briefing in Tokyo in late March by the Hiroshima Prefectural Government ...
The dollar rose above ¥107.50 in Tokyo trading on Monday, attracting buybacks prompted by stocks’ first upturn in seven market days. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥107.63-65, up from ¥106.94-94 at the same time Friday. The euro was at $1.1392-1396, down from $1.1421-1421, and at ¥122.63-64, up from ...
Some Bank of Japan policymakers warned in March of “adverse effects” of negative rates, citing anxiety among financial institutions and depositors, meeting minutes showed Monday. After the minus rate policy was adopted in late January, these members said it had become difficult for market players to understand the central bank’s ...
Weekly magazine Shukan Post has raised questions about new Bank of Japan Board member Makoto Sakurai’s credentials, saying there is no record of him submitting a thesis or graduating with a Ph.D. The central bank’s website describes Sakurai, 69, as having “completed a Ph.D. Program in Economics.” While some readers ...
Ryuichi Isaka, incoming president of Seven & I Holdings Co., said he will prioritize dialogue with colleagues in running the retail group. This contrasts with the top-down approach of outgoing Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Toshifumi Suzuki, who is seen as a charismatic manager. Isaka paid diplomatic tribute to Suzuki ...
Stocks snapped their six-day losing streak in Tokyo on Monday, on the back of gains in Wall Street and a halt to the yen’s strengthening. The Nikkei average climbed 109.31 points, or 0.68 percent, to end at 16,216.03. On Friday, it lost 40.66 points. The Topix index rose 8.34 points, ...
Real wages rose at the fastest pace in more than five years in March, creating hopes for greater consumer spending, government data showed Monday. Average inflation-adjusted wages gained 1.4 percent from a year earlier for the second consecutive month of growth, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said, citing preliminary ...
Bangladesh’s central bank became more vulnerable to hackers when technicians from SWIFT, the global financial network, connected a new bank transaction system to SWIFT messaging three months before a $81 million cyberheist, Bangladeshi police and a bank official alleged. The technicians introduced the vulnerabilities when they connected SWIFT to Bangladesh’s ...
New Zealand is at the heart of a tangled web of shelf companies and trusts that are being used by wealthy Latin Americans to channel funds around the world, according to a report on Monday based on the so-called Panama Papers data leak. Local media analyzed more than 61,000 documents ...