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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The European Union’s agriculture commissioner, Phil Hogan, says a successfully concluded free trade agreement this year between the 28-nation bloc and Japan will depend on the political will of the Japanese government. Hogan called for an earlier conclusion of an EU-Japan free trade pact, while Tokyo is currently engaged in ...
The head of 7-Eleven convenience stores in Japan survived an attempt by his boss to remove him and emerged as president at Seven & I Holdings Co. His next hurdles: turn around weaker units and navigate a leadership transition at the country’s largest retailer. Ryuichi Isaka’s promotion Tuesday ended weeks ...
Japan’s trade deficit in fiscal 2015 through March plunged 88.2 percent from a year earlier to ¥1.08 trillion ($9.9 billion), helped largely by a fall in the cost of crude oil imports, the government said Wednesday. The value of exports fell 0.7 percent for the first decline in three years ...
In occasione del BioInItaly investment forum & Intesa Sanpaolo start up initiative, tenutosi il 10 aprile a Milano presso Palazzo Besana, sono state presentate 14 start up del settore biotech a 1200 investitori provenienti dal Giappone, Stati Uniti, Francia e Regno Unito. L'evento, giunto alla sua settima edizione, è stato organizzato da Assobiotec ...
Apple on Tuesday denied providing Chinese authorities with special access to its devices, as the iPhone maker defended its position on encryption and cooperation with U.S. law enforcement. The company’s general counsel, Bruce Sewell, was appearing at a U.S. congressional hearing on encryption’s impact on law enforcement, as the high-tech ...
Tokyo businessman Randal Furudera isn’t about to swap his German-made BMW M5 for a “boring” Japanese car, although he’ll give them some grudging respect for their ho-hum dependability. Deep-pocketed buyers like Furudera are driving sales in Japan of high-end foreign brands, which dominate the niche sector in a car market ...
North Carolina business leaders on Tuesday called for a repeal of a new state law they blamed for mounting economic losses as opponents cancel jobs and events over concerns that it discriminates against gay and transgender people. The state last month became the first to require transgender people to use ...
A fifth North Korean nuclear test could trigger new sanctions including an effort to choke off hard currency earnings by its laborers abroad, the top U.S. diplomat for the Asia-Pacific region said on Tuesday. “Like a regimen of medicine, the dosage can be upped when the effects fall short of ...
Intel is cutting 12,000 jobs — about 11 percent of its workforce — as it reorganizes to confront a decline in sales of personal computers. The giant chipmaker made the announcement Tuesday as it reported lower-than-expected sales for the first quarter. This as industry analysts say an extended slide in ...
Japanese tourism industries are increasingly concerned that a series of powerful earthquakes that have hit Kyushu, including Kumamoto Prefecture, recently could dampen foreigners’ demand for travel to the country. The Chinese Consulate General in the city of Fukuoka on Saturday warned Chinese citizens not to travel to Kumamoto, which was ...
Japan’s economy ministry is planning to test cashless payment technology using fingerprints and other biometric markers to make transactions more convenient for foreign tourists, sources close to the project said Tuesday. The trials by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will be held from around October in tourism hot ...
The dollar gained ground to rise above ¥109 in Tokyo trading on Tuesday, attracting demand on the back of a rise in crude oil prices and higher stocks. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥109.13-14, up from ¥108.21-22 at the same time Monday. The euro was at $1.1326-1327, up ...
Stocks staged a sharp rebound on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday, backed by an overnight rally in U.S. equities and the yen’s easing. The Nikkei average surged 598.49 points, or 3.68 percent, to finish at 16,874.44. On Monday, it shed 572.08 points. The Topix index closed up 42.88 points, ...
Tests of a speech translation application were set to start at Narita International Airport on Tuesday. The “NariTra” multilingual translation app employs noise-canceling techniques and recognizes a wide range of speech. Offered by the airport at no cost, the app is designed to work hands-free — and therefore suitable for ...
The yen is on a 40-year technically driven climb and that means the Bank of Japan needs to push ahead with radical stimulus next week to avoid this year’s surge accelerating, according to Tokyo-based hedge fund GCI Asset Management. BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda should cut negative rates further and use ...
Marubeni Corp. on Monday cut its profit outlook for the year through March as the trading house booked losses totaling ¥120 billion due mainly to tumbling commodity prices. Marubeni now expects a group net profit of ¥60 billion, sharply down from its earlier estimate of ¥180 billion, and an operating ...
Mitsubishi Corp. is shifting growth away from its energy and mining-related businesses after being stung by the metals and oil collapse that led it to forecast its first-ever annual loss on a group basis. Takehiko Kakiuchi, the newly appointed chief executive officer, said he will focus Japan’s biggest trading house ...
The Diet is expected to defer ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact until after the current legislative session, as the government is giving top priority to responding to the powerful earthquakes in Kyushu. The post After quakes, Japan is expected to delay TPP approval appeared first on The Japan ...
Beer giant Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. said Tuesday it will buy the Peroni and Grolsch brands from Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s top brewer, which the latter pledged to sell as part of a tie-up with SABMiller. Terms of the deal — which also includes U.K. brand Meantime — were not ...
Seven & I Holdings Co. said Tuesday it will promote Ryuichi Isaka, head of its convenience store chain subsidiary Seven-Eleven Japan Co., to the position of president following a recent power struggle. The promotion comes days after the conglomerate’s 83-year-old chief executive officer, Toshifumi Suzuki, announced his resignation. He had ...
There was 2.19 percent growth in monthly salaries agreed by labor and management at 62 major Japanese companies in this year’s shunto talks, the lowest in three years, the Japan Business Federation said Monday. Shunto talks in 2014 and 2015 resulted in 2.39 percent and 2.59 percent growth, respectively. The ...