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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
(Publicity) During the Tokyo Motor Show 2015, Lexus held a talk to introduce how Lexus excites the senses with carefully designed sound and color, featuring relevant experts. The sound that drivers hear inside Lexus vehicles does not only come from the engine. Based on human perception mechanism, the original Active ...
A year after China’s financial regulators squared up to the systemic perils of “shadow banking,” the threat is shifting to a booming corporate bond market, and risky borrowers’ debt is finding its way into products aimed at retail investors. An opaque network of trust companies and nonbank lenders had grown ...
Real estate loans extended by banks surge on strong demand for redevelopment projects in the Tokyo area and to meet the asset management needs of individuals. The post Real estate loans near bubble-era levels, triggering FSA anxiety appeared first on The Japan Times.
It’s a fall evening in Tokyo, and Nikesh Arora is supposed to be in two places at once. This is a common dilemma for the 47-year-old president of SoftBank Group Corp., who splits his time between Silicon Valley, Japan and India. Arora is scheduled for dinner with his boss, Masayoshi ...
A new road linking the Afghan capital with a trade hub near Pakistan has been stuck in the slow lane since a state-owned Chinese company took the contract to build it two years ago, bedevilled by militant attacks and accusations of mismanagement. The 106-km (65-mile) highway section running most of ...
Tokyo - Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak says Thailand is highly likely to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement signed by 12 Pacific Rim countries last month.
The U.S. is set to become the first nation to decide whether it is safe to operate nuclear power plants for 80 years, twice as long as initially allowed. The majority of the nation’s 99 reactors have already received 20-year extensions to their original 40-year operating licenses. Now, operators led ...
Bombed-out buildings tower overhead and rubble is piled high in the deserted streets of Syria’s onetime economic hub of Aleppo. Gunshots can be heard in the distance. The destruction of four years of civil war is overwhelming — and then you switch your phone off. “Welcome to Aleppo” is one ...
The government and ruling coalition decided Friday to forego reform of taxes on beer and beer-like beverages in fiscal 2016 starting in April next year. Taxes on beer and quasi-beer vary considerably, depending on malt content, ingredients and production methods. Currently, a tax of ¥77 per 350 milliliters is imposed ...
American Airlines Group Inc. will keep the right to fly between Los Angeles and Tokyo’s Haneda airport, after federal regulators rejected claims by Delta Air Lines Inc. that the privilege should be revoked because American failed to begin service quickly enough. American has until March 27 to begin the flights ...
TOKYO — Thailand is "highly likely" to seek membership in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) but would first need to weigh up the impact of the free-trade accord on its export-led economy, Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak said on Friday.
Somkiat Chupukcharoen, president of Thai Subcontracting Promotion Association, died Friday in Tokyo while participating in a Thai government roadshow to promote businesses in the kingdom.
The dollar eased to levels around ¥122.40 in late Tokyo trading on Friday, dragged down by sharp losses on the Shanghai stock market, while currency traders refrained from active trading ahead of next week’s key economic events. At 5 p.m., the greenback stood at ¥122.39-40, down from ¥122.63-65 at the ...
The government is considering a deeper cut to the effective corporate tax rate than previously planned for the next fiscal year from April, slashing it to below 30 percent, sources familiar with the matter said Friday. The government now plans to lower the rate to 29.97 percent from the current ...
England’s new rugby coach Eddie Jones has been hired as an adviser by Goldman Sachs in Japan in the hope he can reproduce the Midas touch he showed at the World Cup. The 55-year-old Australian, who recently led Japan’s Brave Blossoms to three victories in four games at the World ...
The number of companies making initial public offerings on Japanese stock exchanges this year is seen totaling 99, up from 80 in 2014 and hitting the highest level since 2007, when 121 firms went public. This is because the Japanese stock market generally performed well in 2015, making it easier ...
Scandal-hit Toshiba Corp. apologized Friday for not disclosing the massive impairment loss of U.S. nuclear power plant maker Westinghouse Electric Co. and vowed to be committed to more proactive information disclosure. Earlier this month, weekly magazine Nikkei Business reported that Toshiba did not disclose the write-downs of Westinghouse’s nuclear business ...
Stocks turned lower Friday as profit-taking took over amid a sense of market overheating. The Nikkei lost 60.47 points, or 0.30 percent, on the Tokyo Stock Exchange to close at 19,883.94. On Thursday, it climbed 96.83 points. The Topix fell 7.87 points, or 0.49 percent, to close at 1,594.45, after ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday instructed his Cabinet to compile an extra budget for fiscal 2015 to bolster welfare services and improve the competitiveness of the farm sector. The supplementary budget for fiscal 2015 ending March 31 is likely to be worth more than ¥3 trillion, government sources said. ...
Japan stock watchers say the fallout from an investigation of Yoshiaki Murakami for market manipulation will be limited. The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission started a probe into the famous investor this week, according to an official at the market watchdog. While companies that Murakami has stakes in have tumbled, ...
The number of workers in farming and forestry falls 19.8 percent over five years to 2.09 million this year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The post Japan’s farming crisis worsens as one in five workers abandoned roots in past five years appeared first on The Japan Times.