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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Sunday he is open to raising taxes for the rich, backing off his prior proposal to reduce taxes on all Americans and breaking with one of his party’s core policies dating back to the 1990s. “I am willing to pay more, and you ...
The Panama Papers scandal promises to deepen around the world on Monday when a journalists’ group with access to the digital cache of documents is to put many of them online. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is to release the documents in a searchable database at 1800 GMT ...
Rakuten Inc. Chairman and CEO Hiroshi Mikitani was listed as a shareholder of a company in an offshore tax haven in recently leaked documents dubbed the Panama Papers, according to analysis of the documents by Kyodo News, which is in partnership with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. According to ...
In an increasingly digital society, acquiring power to keep our smartphones, laptop computers and electric vehicles running is becoming essential to stay in communication and to get around. To make gadgets and appliances last longer as well as run smaller, thinner devices, Japanese manufacturers are working on what they think ...
In a widening scandal that led to the biggest auto recall in U.S. history, Honda Motor Co. will recall an additional 20 million Takata-made air bags globally, a newspaper said Sunday. Tokyo-based auto parts giant Takata is struggling to deal with a defect that can send metal and plastic shrapnel ...
The Bank of Japan will roll out a new index this month to more accurately assess consumption trends. The post BOJ to publish new consumption index said more accurate than government index appeared first on The Japan Times.
Airbus completed a test flight Saturday of a glider set to eventually travel to the edge of space, in a pioneering step into the stratosphere. The Perlan 2’s flight, from an airstrip in Nevada, took place two hours after the planned 1:45 p.m. start time due to heavy rain. It ...
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman announced a government overhaul that saw the kingdom’s top central banker and longtime oil minister replaced as part of sweeping economic changes led by his son to reduce the nation’s reliance on hydrocarbons. The king appointed Ahmed Alkholifey to head the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, as ...
In the event that the U.S. economy crashes, Donald Trump has floated a recovery plan based on his own experience with corporate bankruptcy: Pay America’s creditors less than full value on the U.S. Treasurys they hold. Experts see it as a reckless idea that would send interest rates soaring, derail ...
The more the media digs, the more it is uncovering about Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe's profligate ways. The post Tokyo’s governor is in a high-spending league of his own appeared first on The Japan Times.
The government plans to ease visa requirements for foreign ski instructors to help attract skiers from abroad amid the sport’s declining popularity in Japan, a government source said Saturday. The Justice Ministry is eyeing amending the relevant ordinance as early as this summer, believing instructors with foreign language skills could ...
Daiichi Sankyo Co. said Friday that an international arbitration court has ordered former shareholders of an Indian firm it acquired in 2008 to pay the drugmaker around ¥56.2 billion ($524 million) for concealing critical information. Daiichi Sankyo sold its stake in Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. to India’s Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. ...
Facebook lost the first round in a court fight against some of its users who sued the social networking company, alleging it unlawfully collected and stored users’ biometric data derived from their faces in photographs. The judge presiding over the case in a California federal court on Thursday turned down ...
It took years of lawsuits and political battles for California to finally break ground last year on America’s first bullet train, which aims to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2029. High-speed rail advocates had hoped the line, supported by more than $13 billion in state and federal money, ...
America’s largest public utility is selling a never-completed nuclear plant that has cost more than $4 billion dollars over the past four decades. The Tennessee Valley Authority board voted Thursday to declare the Bellefonte nuclear plant near Hollywood, Alabama, surplus. The site includes two partially finished nuclear reactors, office buildings, ...
The dollar traded around ¥107 in Tokyo trading on Friday amid a wait-and-see mood before the release later in the day of key U.S. economic data. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥106.94-94, up from ¥106.40-44 at the same time Monday. The euro was at $1.1421-1421, down from $1.1467-1468, ...
Toshiba Corp. said Friday it will promote Vice President Satoshi Tsunakawa to replace President Masashi Muromachi as the industrial conglomerate aims to rebuild itself under new leadership. The company’s board of directors made the decision on Friday. The personnel change is expected to take effect in late June after a ...
Oil giant ExxonMobil said Thursday it was starting a new venture that could make carbon-dioxide capture a more economically attractive way to fight global warming. ExxonMobil said its new agreement with FuelCell Energy aims to develop technology for capturing carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants using fuel cells. The idea is ...
Myriad Asset Management has closed down a Japan-focused hedge fund less than a year after opening it, after changing its view on the government’s ability to end deflation through stimulus, said a person with knowledge of the matter. Myriad started the Japan Reflation Fund in March 2015 to tap opportunities ...
Stocks extended their losing streak to a sixth session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, dragged down by selling of export-oriented issues due to the yen’s strength against the dollar. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 40.66 points, or 0.25 percent, to end at 16,106.72. On Monday, the key market gauge ...
The nation’s monetary base stood at ¥386.19 trillion at the end of April, up 2.8 percent from a month earlier, the Bank of Japan said Friday. It was a record high for the fifth straight month for the monetary base, or the combined balance of currency in circulation and commercial ...