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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Household spending dropped for the fifth straight month in January, falling an inflation-adjusted 3.1 percent from a year earlier due to unusually warm weather, the government said Tuesday. Average monthly household spending in January totaled ¥280,973, according to data released by the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry. The ministry maintained ...
Japan’s unemployment rate in January registered its lowest level in three months, falling to 3.2 percent from 3.3 percent the previous month and reflecting a continuation of the tight labor market, the government said Tuesday. Separate data showed the country’s job availability improved to 1.28 in January, hitting its strongest ...
Amid a lingering labor shortage at Japanese companies, the job-hunting season for university students due to graduate next spring began Tuesday, with company information sessions being held nationwide. Experts said that as many companies are showing a willingness to hire, students will benefit from what is presently a seller’s market. ...
The government’s antitrust watchdog on Tuesday conducted on-site inspections of major textile and clothing makers Kuraray Co. and Unitika Ltd. following allegations the companies rigged bids to produce combat fatigues and other uniforms for the Self-Defense Forces. The Japan Fair Trade Commission is also believed to have inspected the offices ...
Capital spending by Japanese firms climbed 8.5 percent in the October-December period from a year earlier, the government said Tuesday, but a decline in corporate profits and an uncertain global economy may dampen business investment in the future. Business investment by all nonfinancial sectors for purposes such as building plants ...
The government has enlisted Toshiba Corp. to help it try to win Asia’s biggest defense contract, a $36 billion deal to build a dozen submarines for Australia, three sources said. Toshiba is considering building a factory in Australia to make lithium-ion batteries to power the vessels, according to the sources, ...
TOKYO — Asian markets were up Tuesday as oil prices rose and fresh stimulus from the Chinese central bank lifted hopes for the world's number two economy.
Manufacturing activity in China shrank at its fastest rate in four years in February, government data showed Tuesday, a fresh sign of sustained weakness in the world’s second-largest economy. The official Purchasing Managers’ Index, which tracks activity in factories and workshops, fell to 49.0 last month, figures from the National ...
Hotel stays by foreign visitors to Japan rose 48.1 percent in 2015 to a record 66.37 million, government has shown, in the wake of a weak yen and measures such as tax-free shopping and the easing of visa rules. Visitor stays are estimated by multiplying the number of visitors by ...
The nation’s top auto safety regulator says an immediate recall of all Takata air bags wouldn’t provide significant safety benefits and could exceed the government’s legal authority. A recall of all Takata air bag inflators also would strain the network for replacement parts and increase uncertainty for consumers, Mark Rosekind, ...
A New York judge says the U.S. Justice Department cannot force Apple to provide the FBI with access to locked iPhone data in a routine Brooklyn drug case. U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein ruled Monday. The decision follows a California magistrate judge’s order requiring Apple to create software to help ...
Japan’s Robot Taxi Inc. has started a field test for driverless taxis in Fujisawa in Kanagawa Prefecture. In the test, 10 groups of participants will be transported between their homes and the Fujisawa outlet of major Japanese retailer Aeon Co. The unit of mobile video game service operator DeNA Co. ...
Billionaire Warren Buffett said the U.S. economy appears weaker than he thought it would be as recently as last fall, but that doesn’t change his optimistic long-term view of the country’s prospects. Buffett appeared on CNBC Monday and addressed a variety of topics after releasing his annual letter to Berkshire ...
U.S. stocks were edging higher in midday trading on corporate earnings news and rising oil prices. Utilities made the biggest gains. Mining companies rose with the price of gold. KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average gained 46 points, or 0.3 percent, to 16,686 as of 12:28 p.m. Eastern time. ...
Nissan shares skyrocketed as much as 12 percent on Monday as investors cheered the company's share buyback. Nissan said after the Tokyo market closed on Friday that it would purchase up to 400 billion yen ($3.5 billion) worth of its own shares by the end of the year.
Japanese monetary authorities did not conduct any currency intervention between Jan. 28 and last Thursday, according to the Finance Ministry. The results were released after some market participants speculated that the ministry and the Bank of Japan may have stepped into the foreign exchange market earlier this month to stem ...
The dollar erased earlier gains to return to levels around ¥113 in Tokyo trading on Monday, dragged down by drops in Chinese shares and the yuan despite a weekend Group of 20 agreement to boost economic growth and stabilize markets. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥112.99-113.00, up from ...
Pressured by the yen’s appreciation against the dollar and other major currencies, stocks gave up earlier gains to close substantially lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 161.65 points, or 1 percent, to finish at the day’s low of 16,026.76. On Friday, the key ...
Foreign-exchange forecasters are the most divided about the yen in almost a year. The Japanese currency has defied predictions and it rallied more than 6 percent in February, the biggest monthly surge since 2008, as investors sought haven assets. The gulf has widened between analysts’ forecasts, with Barclays PLC, the ...
Lotte Holdings Co. will convene an extraordinary shareholders meeting on March 6 at its headquarters in Tokyo amid a feud between the sons of the company founder over their control of the company, a person close to the founder’s eldest son, Hiroyuki Shigemitsu, said Monday. Shigemitsu, who was dismissed as ...
Sharp Corp. said Monday it hopes to finalize a takeover deal with Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. “as soon as practically possible” without setting a deadline for inking the bailout package. “Sharp and Hon Hai Precision Industry have not set a signing date,” the electronics giant said in a ...