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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Australia, Japan & South Korea want more tariff reduction, market access; India remains cautious over agriculture interests
Because of the Bank of Japan’s negative interest rate policy, regional lenders in Kyushu are expected to suffer an increase in costs as disaster relief donations pour in from the rest of the country. Under the policy, announced in January, the BOJ applies a negative rate of 0.1 percent to ...
Struggling electronics giant Toshiba Corp. is preparing for Corporate Senior Executive Vice President Satoshi Tsunakawa to succeed President Masashi Muromachi, company sources said Sunday. With restructuring under 66-year-old Muromachi making measured progress, the company aims to rebuild itself in terms of both trust and earnings in the wake of a ...
U.S. officials have ordered Boeing to fix engines on some of its 787 Dreamliner airplanes to avoid sudden failure in icy conditions, calling the problem an “urgent safety issue.” Friday’s Federal Aviation Administration directive concerns a potential problem in General Electric’s most advanced engines that affects 176 planes worldwide, following ...
Some of Japan’s top automakers, with a reputation for quality performance wrapped in often bland design, are turning to the country’s pop culture to give them the “J-factor” and help set them apart in a world of growing look-alikes. Designers of Nissan Motor’s GT-R supercar, for example, borrowed from the ...
Japan and China depend on each other economically, but not necessarily in an equal way. Sometimes slight changes in commercial prospects in China can have a profound effect on Japan, or, at least, more of an effect that people realize. Earlier this month, the Asahi Shimbun reported that China is ...
Nomura Holdings Inc., the nation’s biggest brokerage, has cut 32 jobs in New York City. The bank disclosed the figures in a so-called Warn notice dated Tuesday and posted on the state Labor Department’s website. The Tokyo-based company is eliminating 60 jobs outside Japan, people familiar with the matter said ...
Mitsubishi Motors’ Pajero is among roughly 10 models tested using a method not compliant with Japanese regulations. The post Mitsubishi Motors likely used unapproved testing method on Pajero, i-MiEV appeared first on The Japan Times.
Having adopted a negative interest rate on some excess reserves to penalize financial institutions for leaving money idle, the Bank of Japan may consider helping them lend by offering a negative rate on some loans, according to people familiar with talks at the BOJ. Such a discussion could happen in ...
The dollar rose above ¥110 for the first time in about two weeks in Tokyo trading Friday on a news report about possible additional monetary easing by the Bank of Japan. The report that the central bank’s policymakers may next week consider charging negative interest on loans to commercial banks ...
Mitsubishi Motors Corp.’s fuel economy scandal broadened Friday as U.S. auto safety authorities said they are seeking information and after reports that the automaker submitted misleading data on at least one more model than disclosed and likely several more. Japan’s sixth-largest automaker admitted this week that it overstated the fuel ...
Stocks cut earlier losses to end higher for the fourth straight session Friday on growing hopes for additional monetary easing by the Bank of Japan. The 225-issue Nikkei average advanced 208.87 points, or 1.20 percent, to close at the day’s high of 17,572.49 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. On Thursday, ...
Japan Post Holdings Co. will shift more of its $2.6 trillion investment portfolio to riskier assets to boost profitability as negative interest rates shrink income from government bonds. The newly privatized postal and financial giant, which has about ¥205.5 trillion ($1.9 trillion) managed by its banking unit and ¥82.7 trillion ...
Toshiba Corp. plans to book an impairment loss of around ¥300 billion for fiscal 2015 linked to its U.S. nuclear power subsidiary Westinghouse Electric Co., sources familiar with the matter said Friday. The loss would be larger than anticipated. The struggling electronics maker, mired in a massive accounting scandal, had ...
Sears Holdings Corp. will close another 78 stores — 68 Kmart units, and 10 Sears stores — as it looks to restore profitability. That accounts for about 5 percent of its store base, which is nearly 1,700 stores. The ailing company, based in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, had said in February ...
The hackers at Cellebrite Mobile Synchronization Ltd., the forensics unit of a little-known Japanese pinball company, are fast becoming the go-to guys when law enforcement needs to unlock smartphones. Its group chief has plans to keep the firm on the front lines against terrorism. In his first interview since Sun ...
The owners of nearly half a million polluting Volkswagens in the U.S. will be given the option of selling them back to the company or getting them repaired at VW’s expense, under a deal announced by a federal judge on Thursday Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, who is overseeing ...
TOBACCO companies specialise in contradiction. They herald the decline of smoking among youngsters, for example, then flaunt their sales to callow puffers. The most skilled contortionist in the industry may be Philip Morris International, the world’s biggest tobacco firm. To date, any good news for shareholders has been bad news ...
Perquisizione nella sede della Mitsubishi. L’ispezione è stata ordinata dal ministero dei trasporti giapponese. Il 20 aprile la casa automobilistica ha ammesso di aver manipolato i test sui consumi di carburante di 625mila minicar vendute sul mercato interno dal 2013. Alla borsa di Tokyo il titolo Mitsubishi Motors ha perso ...
The government retained on Thursday its assessment of the economy because it is recovering moderately despite recent weakness. However, it slashed its view on corporate sentiment amid a firming yen and the slowdown in China. But it warned about the impact of the powerful earthquakes that struck southwestern Japan last ...
Despite the continuing uncertainty over the global economy, the Group of Seven developed countries should not depend too much on monetary steps and move to adopt timely fiscal stimulus and structural reforms, business leaders from the G-7 said Thursday. Major business associations from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and ...