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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Opposition to free trade is a unifying concept even in a deeply divided electorate, with almost two-thirds of Americans favoring more restrictions on imported goods instead of fewer. The latest Bloomberg Politics national poll shows the issue unites the country like few others, across lines of politics, race, gender, education, ...
Everything you wanted to know about Japan's lingering love affair with bananas but were afraid to ask. The post In Japan, all other fruits bow to the top banana appeared first on The Japan Times.
Microsoft is “deeply sorry” for the racist and sexist Twitter messages generated by the “chatbot” it launched this past week, a company official wrote on Friday, after the artificial intelligence program went on an embarrassing tirade. The bot, known as Tay, was designed to become “smarter” as more users interacted ...
Staffers at The Independent sent their final edition to the printing presses on Friday before the 30-year-old British newspaper becomes available only in digital format. Journalists posted footage online of the team “banging ourselves out” — an old tradition of banging the desks to mark the departure of a colleague. ...
Myanmar’s first stock exchange, which was set up with Japanese support, officially started trading Friday, more than three months after its official opening, though only one listed company was available for transactions. On the Yangon Stock Exchange (YSX), First Myanmar Investment (FMI) hit a closing value of 31,000 kyats (around ...
Sharp Corp. and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. are in the final stages of talks on signing an agreement Thursday to rescue the struggling electronics maker, informed sources said. Sharp’s board plans to meet Wednesday to accept a cut of some ¥100 billion in the capital injection proposed by Taiwan’s ...
Yokohama Rubber said on Friday it has agreed to buy Alliance Tire Group from private equity firm KKR and others for about $1.2 billion in a bid to expand its commercial tyre business.
Struggling Skymark Airlines Inc. is expected to return to the black in the fiscal year ending on Thursday by posting an operating profit of more than ¥1.5 billion ($13 million), sources familiar with the matter said Friday. The company’s business has been improving following restructuring efforts, including slashing unprofitable routes, ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday expressed a willingness to postpone the planned consumption tax hike at the last minute if the economy were hit by an event of similar magnitude to the 2008 financial crisis. “If that happens, we will protect the national economy,” Abe said at a House ...
Tax and spending stimulus is needed to help the global economy
Mazda Motor Corp.’s MX-5 sports car, known as the Roadster in Japan, won the 2016 World Car of the Year award at the New York International Auto Show on Thursday, the World Car Steering Committee said. The two-seat, fourth-generation convertible was crowned for being a fun-to-drive car that is almost ...
The U.S. charged seven hackers linked to the Iranian government with executing large-scale coordinated cyberattacks on dozens of banks as well as a small dam outside New York City — intrusions that law enforcement officials said reached into America’s infrastructure, disrupted the nation’s financial system and cost tens of millions ...
U.S. officials said on Thursday that they are hopeful they will be able to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters without help from Apple Inc., but said the national debate over privacy and encryption must still be resolved. Apple has been fighting a court order ...
The dollar rose above ¥113 in Tokyo trading on Friday, thanks chiefly to real demand-backed buying. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥113.06-07, up from ¥112.86-87 at the same time Thursday. The euro was at $1.1162-1163, up from $1.1157-1157, and at ¥126.20-21, up from ¥125.93-94. After moving around ¥112.70-80 ...
Helicopters dropping money in the streets: it’s a vivid metaphor for a drastic form of central bank stimulus that is gaining attention as a possible way to help the global economy out of its malaise. The idea of “helicopter money” is straightforward: central banks would create new cash and give ...
By selling commercial paper at negative interest rates, a Japanese leasing company will get paid enough money to buy a bottle of Dom Perignon Rose Vintage 2004 if it wants. Sumitomo Mitsui Finance & Leasing Co., a unit of the nation’s second-biggest lender by market value, is set to become ...
Stocks turned higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday backed by the yen’s easing against the dollar, enabling the benchmark Nikkei average to retake 17,000. The 225-issue Nikkei average gained 110.42 points, or 0.65 percent, to end at 17,002.75. On Thursday, the key market gauge lost 108.65 points. The Topix ...
Financial assets held by Japanese households hit a record high ¥1,741 trillion ($15.5 trillion) at the end of December, as stocks gained after sell-offs and consumers increased their cash and deposits, data by the Bank of Japan showed Friday. The figure, marking a 1.7 percent increase from a year earlier, ...
Prices in Japan did not rise in February, reinforcing just how far the nation remains from reaching the Bank of Japan’s 2 percent inflation goal. Consumer prices excluding fresh food didn’t budge for a second consecutive month, as forecast. Stripping out energy and food costs, the gauge rose 0.8 percent ...
The nation’s biggest trading companies, stalwarts of the economy, expect to book combined writedowns of at least ¥970 billion ($8.6 billion) as ill-timed investments in commodities ranging from shale gas to copper mines erode profitability. The writedowns for the year ending March underscore the predicament the sogo shosha (general trading ...
Line Corp., which offers a popular mobile message and online voice-call service, is entering the mobile carrier business in Japan, promising to underprice competition as it grows its platform for news, music, games, live streaming and online shopping. Tokyo-based Line, founded five years ago, already has a billion global registered ...