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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
India is set to adopt Japanese bullet train technology for its first high-speed railway, with the two nations’ leaders expected to announce the agreement in a joint statement this week, a Japanese government source said Tuesday. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold talks in ...
Stocks turned lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday, weighed down by an overnight plunge in crude oil prices, with the Nikkei average closing below 19,500. The Nikkei shed 205.55 points, or 1.04 percent, to end at 19,492.60, the lowest closing level in about three weeks. On Monday, it ...
NTT Communications Corp. is set to become the first Japanese company to launch data services in India, sources said Tuesday. The company will provide integrated network services mainly for the roughly 1,200 Japanese businesses operating there, which find connections offered by local providers unreliable. NTT Communications has acquired a national ...
The government and ruling coalition are studying halving the fixed asset tax rate for machinery and other depreciable assets for small companies under certain conditions, sources familiar with the matter said. It would affect machinery and equipment newly obtained by small companies, with the total amount of tax saved likely ...
Masayoshi Son has a $8.6 billion dilemma on his hands. His SoftBank Group Corp. is the largest shareholder of Yahoo Japan Corp., controls several board seats and wields more power over the country’s most profitable website than anyone. That has been possible because Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo Inc., the next biggest ...
The average balance of bank lending in the country in November, excluding loans by shinkin (credit banks), rose 2.3 percent to ¥428.2 trillion, up for the 50th straight month, the Bank of Japan said Tuesday. Including shinkin, the total lending balance grew 2.3 percent to ¥492.6 trillion, also up for ...
The current account surplus grew 72.3 percent from a year earlier in October, the 16th consecutive month of surplus, boosted by plunging oil imports and an increase in the travel surplus, the government said Tuesday. The surplus in the current account balance — one of the widest gauges of a ...
The nation’s gross domestic product expanded in the third quarter rather than contracting as previously thought, meaning the economy did not enter a recession earlier this year. GDP rose an annualized 1 percent in the three months that ended Sept. 30, compared with a preliminary figure that had indicated a ...
Foreign brokerages are leaving credit analyst positions in Tokyo unfilled as record central bank bond-buying stimulus makes it hard for them to make profits. UBS Group AG, Barclays PLC, Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities Co. and Citigroup Inc. all had analysts at the start of 2013 that looked at Japan’s corporate ...
Deutsche Bank AG’s Japanese brokerage unit faces regulatory penalties after the nation’s securities watchdog found that its employees improperly shared information about a company’s earnings with clients. The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission recommended that the Financial Services Agency take administrative action against Deutsche Securities Inc., the SESC said in ...
Notoriously unreliable data in spotlight as country swings from annualised drop to rise of 1%
Japan says its economy grew at an annual 1.0 percent pace in July to September according to revised data that indicate the country dodged a recession.
All Nippon Airways Co. will launch a direct flight service linking Narita International Airport and the Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei province, on April 28. ANA will operate one round-trip flight per day on the route. Flights from Japan are scheduled to depart Narita and arrive at Wuhan in the ...
The dollar was firmer near ¥123.30 in Tokyo trading late Monday, following a jump in overseas trading late last week on stronger than expected U.S. jobs data for November. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥123.28-28, up from ¥122.77-77 at the same time Friday. The euro was at $1.0857-0857, ...
A group of Toshiba Corp. shareholders sued the embattled company and its former executives Monday, seeking roughly ¥300 million in damages for the losses incurred after the firm’s stock price plunged over illicit accounting practices. In the first group lawsuit filed against Toshiba, 50 shareholders from 15 prefectures filed for ...
Now that the European Central Bank has cut its deposit rate, while the Bank of Japan has held steady on policy for more than a year, concerns are growing that BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda has little room to maneuver. The ECB lowered the rate it pays banks on their overnight ...
Stocks rebounded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Monday, encouraged by sharp gains in U.S. equities late last week after data showed the strength of the world’s largest economy. The 225-issue Nikkei average climbed 193.67 points, or 0.99 percent, to close at 19,698.15. On Friday, the key market gauge dived 435.42 ...
Daiwa Securities Group Inc. has a message for its staff this holiday season: Go easy on the sushi and sake. Japan’s second-biggest brokerage is encouraging its 13,600 domestic employees to eat and drink moderately for 30 days from Dec. 14. While most Japanese don’t celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, ...
Takata Corp. has lost the confidence of one of its biggest former shareholders, which said the company cut off access to management and downplayed risks as its air bags spurred a record auto-safety recall. Sawakami Asset Management, whose $2.6 billion stock fund beat the benchmark Topix index 12 of the ...
Economy minister Akira Amari predicts upcoming GDP revision will show it avoided technical recession
New cars that can steer and brake themselves risk lulling people in the driver’s seat into a false sense of security — and even to sleep. One way to keep people alert may be providing distractions that are now illegal. That was one surprising finding when researchers put Stanford University ...