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That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The transport ministry will begin collecting data on four models next week and announce the results in June. The post Government to do its own tests on Mitsubishi vehicles as performance scandal widens appeared first on The Japan Times.
The dollar took a nose dive to around ¥108.40 in Tokyo trading on Thursday, amid disappointment over Bank of Japan’s decision not to release more easing. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥108.39-40, down from ¥111.20-20 at the same time Wednesday. The euro was at $1.1346-1347, up from $1.1329-1329, ...
Panama and the United States on Wednesday signed an agreement on sharing of back account information in a step Panama’s finance minister hailed as proof of his country’s cooperation in fighting tax evasion. The bilateral agreement comes weeks after the release of the Panama Papers, a series of reports around ...
Consumer prices fell 0.3 percent in March compared with a year earlier due to lower energy prices, the government said Thursday, leaving the Bank of Japan far behind in its quest to stoke 2 percent inflation. The core consumer price index, which excludes volatile fresh food prices, stood at 102.7 ...
Struggling electronics maker Sharp Corp. is considering cutting about 1,000 additional jobs to help reduce costs, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday. Jobs may be cut in loss-making units such as the solar cell section, the sources said. The company, however, has not worked out details, including the size ...
Job availability reached the best level in over 24 years and the unemployment rate fell for the first time in two months in March, government data showed Thursday, signaling Japan’s labor market remains tight. According to the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, the job availability ratio, also known as the ...
Sony Corp. reported a fourth-quarter loss after booking a charge against its chip business and delayed giving a full-year forecast to assess damage from an earthquake that shut its main plant for camera sensors. The net loss was ¥88.3 billion in the quarter ended March, the Tokyo-based company said Thursday. ...
The Nikkei average plunged below 17,000 on Thursday amid disappointment over the Bank of Japan’s decision not to ease monetary policy further. The Nikkei dived 624.44 points, or 3.61 percent, to end at 16,666.05, extending its losing streak to a fourth day. On Wednesday, it lost 62.79 points. The Topix ...
The U.S. Air Force on Wednesday awarded billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX an $83 million contract to launch a GPS satellite, breaking the monopoly Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co. have held on military space launches for more than a decade. The Global Positioning System satellite will be launched in May ...
The Bank of Japan held off on expanding monetary stimulus, as Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda and his colleagues opted to take more time to assess the impact of negative interest rates. The move comes as a surprise to the slight majority of economists surveyed by Bloomberg who had projected some action ...
Toyota Motor Corp. has said its Japanese plants will restore full vehicle production on May 6 after disruptions caused by the recent earthquakes in Kyushu. Toyota suspended operations at as many as 15 domestic assembly plants on April 18 amid a shortage of door and engine parts. The quakes damaged ...
Nintendo Co. is easing into its newfound role as a mobile game publisher, but not fast enough for investors expecting a Mario-scale hit. The video-gaming company revealed plans to introduce two new smartphone titles in the coming year, even as it forecast net income and revenue short of analysts’ estimates ...
Three listed Japan Railways Group firms have posted record consolidated sales and operating profits for fiscal 2015, thanks to brisk demand for shinkansen services. In the reporting period, sales at East Japan Railway Co. grew 4 percent from the year before to ¥2.8 trillion, with operating profit of ¥487 billion, ...
The FBI said Wednesday that it will not publicly disclose the method that allowed it to break into a locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers, noting the agency lacks enough “technical information” about the software vulnerability that was exploited. The decision resolves one of the thorniest ...
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Mazda Motor Corp. said Wednesday its group net profit for the business year ended March 31 fell 15.4 percent from the previous year to ¥134.42 billion ($1.2 billion), with costs of a global recall linked to air bags made by Takata Corp. weighing on the firm. Its group operating profit ...
Nintendo Co. said Wednesday its group net profit fell 60.6 percent in the 2015 business year ended last month to ¥16.51 billion ($139.5 million), bruised by the yen’s appreciation against major currencies and languid portable game sales. With nearly three-quarters of the video game maker’s sales coming from overseas markets, ...
Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday all of its 30 domestic auto assembly lines will be operating by May 6 after most were suspended due to a series of strong earthquakes that hit southwestern Japan in mid-April. Eight lines at five factories, including a Miyata plant in Fukuoka Prefecture under Toyota ...
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. on Wednesday abstained from releasing a forecast for fiscal 2016 as a scandal involving falsified fuel efficiency figures threatened to be a road wreck for the automaker. Managing Director Yutaka Tabata said it will be “difficult” to come up with a forecast until the full extent of ...
The dollar was stuck in a narrow range modestly above ¥111 in Tokyo trading on Wednesday as a wait-and-see mood prevailed ahead of policy decisions by the U.S. and Japanese central banks. At 5 p.m., the dollar was at ¥111.20-20, up from ¥110.81-86 at the same time Tuesday. The euro ...
Business ideas are often hatched in unlikely places. But for Atsushi Nakanishi, an epiphany could not have hit him at a worse time. On a fateful day in September 2013, Nakanishi, then a student at the University of California, Berkeley, was in the middle of moving house. He was hurriedly ...