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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Major convenience store operator Lawson Inc. will promote Senior Executive Vice President Sadanobu Takemasu to president and chief operating officer effective June 1. Current President Genichi Tamatsuka will become chairman and chief executive officer with the right to represent the company, it said Monday. The appointments, along with the newly ...
Spending by Japanese families increased in February for the first time in six months, government data showed Tuesday, but analysts said the rare piece of good news for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is likely to be short-lived. Abe came to power in December 2012 vowing to rejuvenate the world’s third-largest ...
NTT Corp.’s unit agreed to buy technology services businesses from Dell for $3.055 billion. The acquisition would be NTT Data Corp.’s largest, helping increase its sales outside Japan, where a shrinking and aging population has stymied economic growth. Dell, which paid $3.9 billion for what was formerly known as Perot ...
Birds chirp under blue skies as luscious greenery stretches beyond. Researchers in white lab coats walk to and from the uncluttered chic and modern buildings. This is the natural and clean environment the Yokosuka Research Park (YRP) offers its tenants conducting business there. Measuring a vast 58 hectares, YRP was ...
Sharp Corp. is expected to report a net loss of around ¥200 billion for the fiscal year ending Thursday amid a slump in its mainstay liquid crystal display business, sources close to the matter said Tuesday. The envisioned loss for the second consecutive year for the struggling Japanese electronics maker ...
Dell sold its services business on Monday to Japan’s NTT Data for just over $3 billion — well below the $5 billion it had been seeking. The Texas tech giant paid $3.9 billion for the former Perot Systems business in 2009. Proceeds from the sale may be used to fund ...
Entra in vigore la legge che permette a Tokyo di partecipare a missioni armate in caso di attacco agli Stati Uniti o ad altri paesi alleati. Una normativa...
Skymark Airlines Inc. exited bankruptcy administration and forecast its first operating profit in three years after reducing its fleet, cutting routes and securing new funding. The carrier expects to report ¥1.5 billion ($13 million) in operating profit and sales of ¥70 billion for the year ending March 31, Skymark said ...
NTT Corp.’s unit agreed to buy technology services businesses from Dell for $3.055 billion. The acquisition would be NTT Data Corp.’s largest, helping increase its sales outside Japan, where a shrinking and aging population has stymied economic growth. Dell, which paid $3.9 billion for what was formerly known as Perot ...
Major automakers Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. on Monday reported declines in domestic production for February, while Honda Motor Co. saw output grow. Toyota’s domestic production fell 18.8 percent from the previous year to 223,850 units, while Nissan’s declined 1.6 percent to 83,835 units. Honda manufactured 75,348 cars ...
Biopharmaceutical company Biocon said it got approval from Japan’s health ministry to sell its bio-similar Insulin Glargine in the country. The move will help Biocon capture a significant share of the Japanese market which is the second largest market outside of North America & Europe.
Stocks exhibited resilience to end higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Monday, backed by the yen’s weakening against the dollar while many overseas players were still absent during the Easter long weekend. The 225-issue Nikkei average advanced 131.62 points, or 0.77 percent, to close at 17,134.37. On Friday, the key ...
All Nippon Airways has started direct flights between Tokyo’s Haneda airport and Miyakojima, an island in Okinawa Prefecture. The unit of ANA Holdings Inc. aims to attract repeat visitors to Okinawa by offering one round-trip flight per day between Haneda and the island, which is popular among such tourists. On ...
Third Point LLC’s billionaire founder Daniel Loeb has targeted Seven & I Holdings Co. for management succession planning criticism, warning the grocery and retail group against letting nepotism determine its next chief executive officer. Seven & I CEO Toshifumi Suzuki, 83, is experiencing chronic health problems and investors fear he ...
Nearly a quarter of major firms in Japan that have set hiring plans for fiscal 2017 intend to recruit more new graduates than in fiscal 2016, but the percentage fell short of the previous year’s figure, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday. Of the 110 companies surveyed from Feb. 23 ...
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) decided Monday to set a new credit line for Sharp Corp., sources familiar with the matter said, as the struggling electronics maker seeks to sign a takeover deal with Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Sharp’s other major creditor bank, Mizuho Bank, is also ...
The dollar rose above ¥113.50 in Tokyo trading on Monday, backed by an upward revision in the U.S. growth rate for October-December. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥113.53-54, up from ¥113.06-07 at the same time Friday. The euro was at $1.1164-1165, little changed from $1.1162-1163, and at ¥126.76-77, ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has sought to have women hold 30 percent of supervisory positions in all fields by the time Tokyo hosts the Olympics in 2020. But as of now, his own government is at least 15 years behind schedule. Women fill just 6.2 percent of junior management jobs ...
The special China desk, to operate from Monday, will be largely based on the lines of the Japan desk set up in New Delhi, SBI officials attending the 'India-China Business Forum' being held in the Chinese city of Wuxi said. The special desk will provide advisory services, they said.
TOKYO - Japanese manufacturers and retailers are increasingly targeting big-spending Chinese visitors, with many recently shifting their focus from group tours to independent travellers.
The tycoon who is offering $43 billion for Swiss agrochemicals giant Syngenta keeps a low profile, but he is China’s most aggressive deal-maker. Ren Jianxin, chairman of state-owned ChemChina, is behind most of China’s big foreign acquisitions, from Italian tire brand Pirelli to Norwegian chemical supplier Elkem and KraussMaffei, a ...