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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Energy ministers from the Group of Seven nations agreed Monday on the need to strengthen energy security and promote investment in the sector, as low prices and other emerging issues threaten to destabilize supply. The ministers gathered in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, for two days of talks as low oil prices ...
Japan will launch a new initiative to support economic development in nations along the Mekong corridor, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday. It will form part of ¥750 billion in Japanese aid to the region over three years, announced by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last July. In a speech at ...
Passengers set sail on Sunday from Miami on a historic cruise to Cuba, one that took decades of waiting. Carnival Corp.’s 704-passenger Adonia left port at 4:24 p.m., bound for Havana. Carnival’s Cuba cruises, operating under its Fathom brand, will visit the ports of Havana, Cienfuegos and Santiago de Cuba ...
Employees at the Saudi Binladin Group, a construction giant, have set fire to more than seven company buses in the latest protest by disgruntled staff over not being paid salaries for months and a large round of reported layoffs. Maj. Nayef al-Sharif, the spokesman for the Civil Defense in the ...
France will reject the ambitious TTIP trans-Atlantic trade pact if it endangers the future of French agriculture, President Francois Hollande warned Sunday. “We in France have to defend a certain number of principles” and be “extremely vigilant as it is the future of agriculture which could be at stake,” Hollande’s ...
Infertility is a growing concern in rapidly depopulating Japan. But it is often seen as a women’s problem, even though both sexes can be to blame. A Tokyo company is trying to change that by marketing a kit that allows men to check their semen quality easily and in the ...
Japan Post Co. plans to launch an international delivery service for larger frozen and chilled food items than its current service can deliver, sources said. The new service, which might debut as early as June, will allow deliver of, for example, a whole fish, such as a yellowtail, instead of ...
Japan’s top companies are increasingly moving to give foreign people permanent contracts, judging that the benefits of diversification are well worth the challenges. Among them is convenience store chain Lawson Inc., which has awarded between 10 and 30 percent of its graduate positions to foreigners over the past several years. ...
Germany may become an exporter of technologies to decommission reactors in the future given the experience gained after its phasing out of nuclear energy, German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks said in a recent interview with Kyodo News. Germany believes it may be able to halt all nuclear power in the ...
Mitsubishi Motors Corp., embroiled in a car-rigging scandal in Japan, may find that its future increasingly hinges on its performance in Thailand — the automaker’s biggest overseas production base. Paced by Thailand-built Triton pickups and Pajero SUVs, Mitsubishi Motors sold more than twice as many vehicles in Southeast Asia than ...
The U.S. has put nations including China, Japan and Germany on a new currency watch list, saying their foreign exchange practices need close monitoring to gauge whether they provide an unfair trade advantage over America. The inaugural list also includes South Korea and Taiwan, the Treasury Department said Friday in ...
More than 100 million vehicles are likely to be subject to global recalls linked to faulty air bags made by Takata Corp., up from the current 60 million units, sources close to the matter said Friday. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the U.S. road safety regulator, is leaning ...
Gli Stati Uniti mettono la Cina, il Giappone e la Germania nella nuova lista dei sorvegliati speciali per i tassi di cambio. Nella nuova versione del rapporto semestrale sui principali partner...
“Industry 4.0,” or the fourth industrial revolution, can offer both opportunities and risks for the Japanese economy. It is a term to describe the future state of the economy, particularly manufacturing, based on the connectivity of everything, or the “Internet of Things” (IoT). This connectivity includes not only PCs and ...
Off the off-road tracks deep in Egypt’s eastern desert, prospectors are ramping up the hunt for the treasure once revered by the pharaohs as the “skin of the gods” — gold. Essential for ancient artifacts like the famed burial mask of Tutankhamun and still highly desired in Middle Eastern culture ...
Comcast is buying DreamWorks Animation, the film company behind the “Shrek,” “Madagascar” and “Kung Fu Panda” franchises, for approximately $3.55 billion, strengthening its presence in the important and growing business of children’s entertainment. DreamWorks stockholders will receive $41 for each share they own. That’s a 24 percent premium to the ...
HARUHIKO KURODA added another instance to his record of wrong-footing financial markets this week. Confronted with a rising yen and tumbling inflation, the thinking went, the central-bank governor had little choice but to shore up the credibility of the Bank of Japan (BoJ) with even looser monetary policy. But in ...
CARMAKERS have two methods for dealing with the gases that belch from exhaust pipes. One is to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide (NOx) and other nasties by spending heavily to develop cleaner engines. Another is to devise methods to game emissions-testing systems but keep polluting the atmosphere on ...
Les Waas, the advertising legend behind the Mister Softee jingle heard in hundreds of ice cream trucks for more than half a century, has died. He was 94. Waas died April 19 at Abington Hospice in Warminster, according to Goldsteins’ Rosenberg’s Raphael-Sacks funeral home. The Mister Softee song, originally written ...
Panasonic Corp. said Thursday its group net profit rose 7.7 percent in fiscal 2015 from the previous year to ¥193.26 billion ($1.78 billion), helped by its restructuring. Operating profit increased 8.8 percent to ¥415.71 billion in the year through last month on sales of ¥7.55 trillion, down 2.1 percent, the ...
Robust demand from foreign travelers to Japan boosted profits of the country’s two major airlines in fiscal 2015, according to their earnings reports released Thursday. ANA Holdings Inc. reported a record group net profit of ¥78.17 billion ($723 million) for the year through March 31, roughly double the amount reported ...