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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Officials from 10 U.S. companies on Thursday wrote to the governor of Mississippi urging him to overturn a controversial law that opponents say discriminates against gay and transsexual people. “Discrimination is wrong, and we believe it has no place in Mississippi or anywhere in our country,” read the letter, signed ...
Verizon Communications plans to make a first-round bid for Yahoo’s Web business next week and is willing to acquire the company’s Yahoo Japan stake to help sweeten the offer, according to people familiar with the matter.Read full article >>
Fast Retailing Co., the operator of Uniqlo clothing stores, said Thursday that its group net profit in September-February plunged 55.1 percent from a year before to ¥47.04 billion, the first drop in five years on a first-half basis. The drop chiefly reflected sluggish performances in Japan and abroad of Uniqlo ...
The Bank of Japan is running out of government bonds to buy. Its would-be counterparts have become increasingly unwilling to sell the debt that monetary policymakers have pledged to buy, and the most recently issued 30-year Japanese bond did not record a single trade during a session last week as ...
The dollar plumbed 17-month lows in Tokyo trade on Thursday as analysts said authorities may find it difficult to intervene and sell the yen. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥108.56-57, down from ¥110.40-41 at the same time Wednesday. The euro was at $1.1405-1406, up from $1.1357-1357, and at ...
The Bank of Japan maintained its assessment Thursday on eight of nine regional economies from January, but cut its view on the Tohoku region, where production was dampened by a slowdown in emerging economies. The BOJ kept intact its view that all regional economies are either recovering moderately or are ...
The Nikkei average snapped its seven-session losing streak on Thursday, with the market aided by buybacks and buying on dips It climbed 34.48 points, or 0.22 percent, to end at 15,749.84. On Wednesday, the average lost 17.46 points. The Topix index was up 4.89 points, or 0.39 percent, at 1,272.64, ...
Yamato Global Logistics Japan Co. will start a service in early May that delivers Japanese products to Chinese consumers in as little as four days through an alliance with local partners including online retailer JD.com. With the alliance, Yamato Global, a unit of Yamato Holdings Co., hopes to win new ...
Nearly a third of the business of Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the center of the Panama Papers scandal, came from its offices in Hong Kong and China, reports say, making the Asian giant its biggest market. Shell companies incorporated through the Hong Kong and China offices of the ...
Toshiba Corp. will build a factory in India to make parts for trains following plans by General Electric Co. and Alstom SA to set up manufacturing facilities in the country after winning deals to build locomotives. The Japanese company will make train control and power conversion systems in the factory ...
A 17-year-old driver of a recalled 2002 Honda Civic was killed last month after a Takata Corp. air bag ruptured during a rear-end crash, Honda Motor Co. and U.S. regulators said on Wednesday. It is 10th U.S. death linked to a defect that has prompted recalls of tens of millions ...
The United States is emerging as a top tax haven alongside the likes of Switzerland, the Cayman Islands and Panama, those seeking reform of the international tax system say. And states such as Delaware, Nevada, South Dakota and Wyoming, in particular, are competing to provide foreigners with the secrecy they ...
The board of retail giant Seven & I Holdings Co. on Thursday voted not to replace the president of its convenience store chain Seven-Eleven Japan Co., sources said. Seven & I Holdings Chief Executive Officer Toshifumi Suzuki, 83, has taken the initiative to replace Ryuichi Isaka, 58, the chain’s president. ...
The Finance Ministry plans to increase the number of ¥10,000 bills in circulation, amid signs that more people are hoarding cash. It will print 1.23 billion such notes in fiscal 2016, 180 million more than a year earlier. The number of ¥10,000 bills issued annually leveled off at around 1.05 ...
A Technicolor scientist surrounded by the latest virtual reality technology inspects a vial containing a few droplets of water — and 1 million copies of an old movie encoded into DNA. The company has come a long way since Hollywood’s golden age, when the world gazed in awe at the ...
Optical equipment maker Microscope Network Co. and the University of Tsukuba have developed a system that enables doctors to monitor and save endoscope images on Apple Inc. iPhones. The system, comprising a lens equipped with an endoscope attached to an iPhone camera, allows high-resolution images to be viewed on small ...
Global airline passenger traffic grew 6.8 percent in 2015, with the Middle East region growing the fastest, preliminary data released on Wednesday by the United Nations’ civil aviation agency showed. U.S. carriers were ranked the top three in the world by revenue passenger kilometer, American Airlines Group taking the top ...
A judge has approved a multimillion dollar settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed by former Sony Pictures Entertainment employees whose private information was stolen in a massive data breach. The U.S. government blamed the hack on North Korea. U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner ruled Wednesday on the agreement that ...
As-well as shining a spotlight on the secret financial arrangements of the rich and powerful, the so-called Panama Papers have laid bare London’s role as a vital organ of the world’s tax-haven network. The files leaked from Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca exposed Britain’s link to thousands of firms based ...
China and Myanmar pledged to open a “new chapter” in their sometimes strained relationship, raising the prospect that stalled Chinese investment projects in the Southeastern Asian country could be allowed to resume. Aung San Suu Kyi, head of Myanmar’s ruling National League for Democracy and newly installed foreign minister, and ...
The dollar traded around ¥110.40 in Tokyo trading on Wednesday, after plunging below ¥110 for the first time in about 17 months in overnight trading abroad. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥110.40-41, down from ¥110.46-47 at the same time Tuesday. The euro was at $1.1357-1357, almost unchanged from ...