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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The Nikkei average fell for a seventh straight session Wednesday under pressure from the stronger yen. The slump has been the longest to date under Abenomics. The Nikkei sank 17.46 points, or 0.11 percent, to end at 15,715.36. On Tuesday, it dived 390.45 points. The average last fell for seven ...
Finance Ministry officials investigate whether an item sold in an online game is equivalent to a virtual currency. The post Line audited over in-game virtual currency appeared first on The Japan Times.
Former Bank of Japan Deputy Gov. Kazumasa Iwata says the central bank will run up against the limits of bond purchases by the middle of next year, making the negative interest rate the BOJ’s key tool for monetary policy. Iwata, who was on the central bank’s board from 2003 to ...
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.’s trust banking arm plans to increase the assets it administers overseas for institutional investors by about 30 percent to $400 billion over the next two years to boost fee income, the unit’s new president said. The trust bank, which has acquired four firms that provide ...
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.’s rescue of Sharp Corp. promises to bolster the Taiwanese electronics maker’s ambitions for a bigger role in clean energy in some of the world’s most polluting countries while also providing a firmer footing in Japan. Hon Hai, also known as Foxconn, which reached a deal ...
The composite index of economic indicators, reflecting the current state of the economy, fell in February, the government said Wednesday. The index of coincident indicators, such as industrial output, retail sales and new job offers, declined 3.2 points from the previous month to 110.3 against the 2010 base of 100, ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ruled out intervening in currency markets to halt a surge in the yen, even though it sat near a 1½-year high against the dollar Wednesday. Huge volatility on equity markets driven by worries about the slowdown in global growth have sent traders scurrying for the ...
Retail giant Seven & I Holdings Co. is expected to replace the president of its convenience store arm Seven-Eleven Japan Co. despite good performance, informed sources said. Vice President Kazuki Furuya, 66, will be named successor to President Ryuichi Isaka, 58, at a board meeting Thursday, the sources said. Isaka ...
Un 2015 caratterizzato da crescita e ricavi al top. Questo l'anno in sintesi per la casa di moda italiana di lusso Ermenegildo Zegna che, al contrario dei competitors che hanno registrato in alcuni casi anche un calo dei margini, il Gruppo Zegna è cresciuto del 4% con un export del ...
The Keystone pipeline will likely remain shut down for the rest of the week while officials investigate an apparent oil spill in southeastern South Dakota. Oil covered a 300-sq.-foot area in a farm field ditch 4 miles from a Freeman-area pump station, about 40 miles southwest of Sioux Falls. It ...
Japan’s telecommunications ministry instructed major mobile phone carriers NTT Docomo Inc. and Softbank Corp. on Tuesday to stop selling smartphones effectively for free in defiance of guidelines aimed at ending excessive discounts. This is the first time that the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry has issued such an administrative directive ...
Schindler Elevator K.K. said Tuesday it will withdraw from the sales and maintenance businesses for elevators and escalators in Japan. The Japanese arm of Switzerland’s Schindler Group will sell the service business to Nippon Otis Elevator Co. Following fatal accidents caused by Schindler elevators in Tokyo’s Minato Ward and the ...
The National Football League said it had chosen Twitter as its exclusive global partner for streaming its Thursday night games during the 2016 regular season. Twitter Inc., whose shares were little changed at midday, will stream 10 games for free, the NFL said in a statement. (bit.ly/1N6ttP3) The deal also ...
The government is discussing welfare and stimulus measures aimed at promoting economic growth ahead of the Group of Seven summit in May. “It is extremely important to present a solid road map toward achieving the ¥600 trillion economy,” when the G-7 economies are being looked to for strong commitment and ...
Real wages rose for the first time in four months in February as base pay and other scheduled wages hit a more than 10-year high, the government said Tuesday. Average inflation-adjusted wages gained 0.4 percent from a year earlier, while nominal wages rose 0.9 percent to ¥262,558, the Health, Labor ...
The government may provide low-interest yen loans to Indonesia to help it build a major new port in Patimban, 120 kilometers east of Jakarta, sources said. As the Indonesian side has estimated construction will cost ¥300 billion, this is likely to be one of the largest Indonesian projects in which ...
Convenience store operator FamilyMart Co. and Japan Post Holdings Co. said Tuesday they will begin a delivery service enabling foreign visitors to Japan to send packages from FamilyMart’s domestic stores for pickup at its stores elsewhere around Asia. FamilyMart expects foreign visitors to use the service — the first international ...
The number and value of Japanese companies’ acquisitions of foreign firms hit record highs in fiscal 2015, which ended Thursday, a survey by merger and acquisition adviser Recof Corp. showed Tuesday. The number rose 6.9 percent from the previous year to 591 cases, while the overall value grew 2.8 percent ...
Kicking off Diet deliberations on ratifying the pact, the ruling and opposition parties lock horns over the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement. The post Japanese lawmakers lock horns over TPP appeared first on The Japan Times.
Tokyu Corp. and Segway Japan Ltd. launched trial outings on the wheeled devices Tuesday in Tokyo’s Futako-Tamagawa area — the first such Segway tours in the capital. The tour consists of a 5.8-km ride around the Futako-Tamagawa Rise shopping and office complex and along the Tama River on one of ...
The dollar plunged below ¥110.50 in late Tokyo trading on Tuesday, hit by stop-loss selling by European players. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥110.46-47, down from ¥111.58-59 at the same time Monday. The euro was at $1.1356-1358, down from $1.1373-1374, and at ¥125.46-47, down from ¥126.91-92. After moving ...