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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Nintendo Co.’s foray into smartphones is off to a good start. Miitomo, a free messaging-based application, reached No. 1 among social-networking apps in Japan on Apple Inc.’s iOS devices on the day of its release, market researcher App Annie said Friday. Line, the country’s most popular instant messenger, fell to ...
As autonomous car technology rapidly progresses, makers of the cars face the difficult question of how safe they must be before they’re ready to move people on highways and city streets. Right now, companies such as Google, Audi and Mercedes-Benz are testing the cars in a small number of cities ...
Westinghouse Electric Co. expects to put fuel into its first nuclear plant in China this year as it moves closer to start up and vies for a share of a market that may see $1 trillion in spending to boost production through 2050. Westinghouse, the Pennsylvania-based unit of Japan’s Toshiba ...
The world economy would be worse off without negative interest rates, according to International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde. Negative rates in Europe and Japan have helped support global growth and price gains, she said in an interview in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday. The finance sector may ...
Toshiba Corp. said its profitability will improve in the next fiscal year as it scales back on products such as personal computers and home appliances. Operating profit will be ¥120 billion ($1.1 billion) and revenue ¥4.9 trillion in fiscal 2016, the electronics maker said on Friday, in a presentation titled ...
The dollar was weaker below ¥111.50 in Tokyo trading on Friday, with its topside capped by speculation about a slower-than-expected pace of interest rate hikes in the United States. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥111.33-34, down from ¥111.74-76 at the same time Thursday. The euro was at $1.1282-1283, ...
In 2012, Shintaro Yamada was 34 years old, single and frustrated with his job. So he quit a comfortable position in Tokyo and set out to see the world. He made a point of traveling on the cheap and mixing with the locals. He stayed at $5-a-night hostels without hot ...
Bank of Japan policymakers were aware of the need for pre-emptive action to achieve an inflation target, but some voiced concern a negative interest rate could cause confusion, minutes of the central bank’s January policy meeting show. The Jan. 28-29 meeting of the nine-member Policy Board came amid turbulence in ...
Stocks extended their losing streak to a fourth session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday, dragged down by a wave of selling due to the yen’s rapid appreciation against the dollar. The 225-issue Nikkei average dropped 211.57 points, or 1.25 percent, to end at 16,724.81. On Thursday, the key ...
Toyohashi University of Technology and Taisei Corp. unveiled Friday what they say is the world’s first electric vehicle that runs without a battery, using special tires that draw power from an electrified road surface. In a driving test at the school in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, a small electric vehicle moved ...
Seven regional banks will jointly acquire a stake in an asset management company set up in August by Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings Inc., informed sources said Friday. The move will help the banks achieve greater economies of scale in asset management at a time when they are facing an increasingly ...
Electricity sales by the nation’s 10 major power suppliers in February dropped 1.7 percent year on year to 72,893 million kilowatt-hours, down for the 10th consecutive month, an industry group said Friday. The decrease reflects a fall in demand for electricity for heating following a warmer than usual winter, according ...
The nation finalized an 11 percent cut to the incentive it offers to producers of solar power for the fiscal year starting April 1 to take account of lower system costs. The rate for solar projects with 10 kilowatts of capacity or larger was reduced to ¥24 per kilowatt hour ...
A blue-eyed ninja with spiky blond hair and whisker marks is leading Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s campaign to capture the eyes and wallets of China’s anime fans. The hero, Naruto, a keystone of manga, isn’t fighting alone. He’s in a stable of characters assembled by Tencent that includes a Chinese teen ...
Eight Hokkaido firms are taking a fresh approach to the region’s notoriously cold weather with the development of an electric vehicle tailored for tough road conditions. “Our company may be small, but we want to produce things that suit the demand of the locals,” said Hideki Nemoto, president of Will-E ...
U.S. transportation officials and automakers say they’ve agreed to make automatic braking standard in nearly all cars within six years — by 2022. Mark Rosekind — who heads the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration — says the voluntary agreement with 20 car manufacturers means that the important safety technology will ...
The Apple-FBI fight may just be the opening salvo in a broader war over encryption, as technology companies continue to lock up their users’ messages, photos and other data to shield them from thieves and spies — and, incidentally, criminal investigators. WhatsApp, the globally popular messaging system owned by Facebook, ...
Indian car makers import about 1 million tonnes of high-tensile steel annually, mainly from Japan and South Korea
Canon Inc. agreed to buy Toshiba Corp.’s medical equipment unit for ¥665.5 billion ($5.9 billion) as the world’s biggest maker of cameras seeks new growth. The deal will be funded by existing cash and borrowed funds, Tokyo-based Canon said in a statement Thursday. The agreement comes a day after unsuccessful ...
Toshiba Corp. said Thursday it will spend around ¥360 billion ($3.2 billion) over the next three years through fiscal 2018 building and outfitting a facility to produce next-generation NAND-type flash memory. The scandal-hit manufacturing giant is expected to discuss the possibility of obtaining additional investment from U.S.-based SanDisk Corp., the ...
The surplus was due to a stronger yen and weak oil prices, though both imports and exports fell, suggesting persistently slack demand both here and overseas. The post February trade surplus biggest in four years appeared first on The Japan Times.