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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. has established a fully owned subsidiary in Sydney. The creation of MHI Australia Pty. is aimed at highlighting Mitsubishi Heavy’s contributions to the local economy, thereby improving its chances of winning a major contract to build a fleet of submarines for the Australian government. The Australian ...
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. has formed an investment-banking group in the United States, part of a push to expand its mergers advisory business even as competitors from Nomura Holdings Inc. to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. move to curtail costs. The Tokyo-based bank’s brokerage unit hired Randy Gelber from Barclays ...
Below is a list of key companies affected by the Kyushu earthquakes and the status of their facilities as reported by Reuters and other media. Sony Corp. halted production of image sensors at its plant in Kumamoto. It is inspecting the plant and does not have a timeline for resuming ...
As bureaucrats and business executives attempt to gauge the economic cost of the quakes in Kyushu, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday raised the possibility of rapidly compiling a supplementary budget to render assistance to the area. “The government would like to take every necessary measure” to assist quake-hit areas ...
The dollar was weak around ¥108 in Tokyo trading on Monday as investors moved to reduce risk exposure amid drops in crude oil and stock prices. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥108.21-22, down from ¥109.30-30 at the same time Friday. The euro was at $1.1301-1302, up from $1.1258-1259, ...
Stocks dived on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday, dragged down by a slump in crude oil prices and the yen’s rise against the dollar. The 225-issue Nikkei average shed 572.08 points, or 3.4 percent, to close at 16,275.95. On Friday, the key market gauge lost 63.02 points. The Topix ...
A House of Representatives special committee on Monday resumed deliberations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal and relevant bills for the first time in 10 days. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other ministers attended the debates at the Lower House committee on the TPP. The Democratic Party said that ...
A man walks into a tailor, orders a custom-made suit and then says he’s bound by his own rules to only buy half of it. Sell the rest to someone else, he says. That, essentially, is the conundrum facing S&P Dow Jones Indices, except that instead of a suit, it’s ...
Oil plunged Monday after the world’s top producers failed to reach agreement on capping output to ease global oversupply, as tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia stymied an anticipated deal. Prices tumbled more than 5 percent in early Asian trade after top producer Saudi Arabia said a deal must include ...
Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei called Donald Trump an “irrational type” in an interview published Sunday, slamming the Republican presidential front-runner’s calls for a trade war with the Asian giant. Lou told The Wall Street Journal that the United States “wouldn’t be entitled to world leadership” if Trump’s proposal to ...
Major corporations invested in Southern states have become some of the staunchest opponents of bills they consider discriminatory, facing off against Republican lawmakers eager to portray their states as the best home for global brands. The NFL, Apple and other behemoths have cajoled Republicans into rejecting or softening bills in ...
The Japanese share market plunged more than 3 percent on Monday after a series of earthquakes measuring up to 7.3-magnitude struck a southern manufacturing hub, killing at least 42 people and forcing major companies to close factories. About 30,000 rescue workers were scouring the rubble for survivors and handing out ...
The first Air France flight between Paris and Tehran in eight years landed in the Islamic republic’s capital on Sunday, bearing a government minister and a business delegation. The airline’s route had been suspended since 2008 because of international sanctions against Iran over its controversial nuclear program. However, sanctions have ...
A U.S. indictment against China General Nuclear Power Corp. of conspiracy to illegally produce nuclear material is shining a light on one China’s leading atomic energy companies, a key player in its effort to export nuclear technology. The state-owned company, part of a venture designing China’s first homegrown reactor, was ...
Toyota Motor Corp. said Sunday it will shut down vehicle assembly in Japan over the course of this week because of parts shortages stemming from the two strong earthquakes in Kyushu. The world’s biggest automaker posted the announcement on its website Sunday. The shutdown will begin on Monday at a ...
Japan wins little sympathy from its Group of 20 counterparts for the pain being caused by its strengthening yen. The post Japan gets little G-20 support for potential yen intervention appeared first on The Japan Times.
Pyongyang drivers are feeling some pain at the pump as rising gas prices put a pinch on what has been major traffic growth over the past few years — and that might not be good news for the isolated country’s shifting domestic economy. An Associated Press review shows that after ...
Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities jumped in February, driven by China and Japan, the two biggest foreign owners of U.S. debt. The Treasury Department says total foreign holdings increased 0.9 percent to $6.24 trillion. China expanded its holdings 1.1 percent to $1.25 trillion, while Japan increased its holdings 0.9 ...
A number of firms were forced to suspend production and evacuate their employees after a magnitude-7.3 earthquake rocked central Kyushu early Saturday following a series of temblors beginning roughly a day earlier. Toyota Motor Kyushu Inc. has suspended production at its three vehicle assembly plants in Fukuoka Prefecture since Thursday ...
The world’s leading economies took a step Friday toward denying tax evaders and money launderers around the world the ability to hide behind anonymous shell companies. The post G-20 members embrace crackdown on tax havens, warn over ‘Brexit’ appeared first on The Japan Times.
Scandal-hit Toshiba Corp. said it has received applications from 3,449 workers, or 3 percent of its domestic workforce, for an early retirement program between January and March. As part of its restructuring efforts following an accounting scandal, the ailing electronics and machinery maker sought voluntary early retirement for the first ...