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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Authorities in China have cracked the country’s biggest-ever underground banking network, which handled illegal foreign exchange transactions worth 410 billion yuan ($64 billion), police said Friday. The bust comes amid a monthslong crackdown on illicit outflows, which officials say disrupt China’s financial management, facilitate corruption and help terrorists and criminals ...
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Friday compiled a set of proposals to help Japanese farmers and businesses cope with the likely impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement. The LDP’s policy paper places emphasis on measures to promote exports rather than those to directly protect domestic industries — ...
The dollar eased to around ¥123 in Tokyo trading on Friday, pressured by position-adjustment selling and sluggish performance of Tokyo stocks. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥123.00-01, down from ¥123.36-37 at the same time Thursday. The euro was at $1.0688-0689, up from $1.0673-0674, and at ¥131.47-48, down from ...
TCW Group Inc. says the Bank of Japan has made a mistake and should exit quantitative easing as soon as possible. Invesco Ltd. says the only error was not starting sooner. The split in views at the funds, which manage a combined $971 billion, comes as BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda ...
A Japanese public-private fund is in the final stage of negotiations to invest about ¥4 billion in a high-speed rail project in Texas, sources said Friday. The project, in which Central Japan Railway Co.’s shinkansen bullet train technology is expected to be used, faces the challenge of covering costs totaling ...
Stocks managed to end higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, underpinned by buying from individuals and hedge funds, after moving in negative territory for most of the day’s trading. The 225-issue Nikkei average rose 20.00 points, or 0.10 percent, to end at 19,879.81, the highest closing since Aug. 20. ...
A red-tape busting rule change will mean companies can cut back on the amount of paper receipts they need to store for business expense claims, as long as workers have a smartphone camera, according to informed sources. Currently, companies are obliged by corporate tax law to keep paper receipts for ...
ANA Holdings Inc. will accept 15 Myanmar trainees starting at the end of this month to work in ground services at Narita airport, including in operating passenger boarding bridges and loading cargo. The major Japanese airline said this week it will train the workers at the request of the Myanmar ...
Lawson Inc. sets up a new lender with Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ as the convenience store chain prepares to make a foray into banking. The post Convenience store giant Lawson eyes entering banking business appeared first on The Japan Times.
Financial Times reporters have overwhelmingly supported in a vote to go on strike over changes to pensions proposed by its new owner, Nikkei Inc., a Japanese media company. Almost 92 percent of members of the National Union of Journalists who took part in the voting endorsed industrial action, according to ...
Amazon Japan K.K. said Thursday it has started a service to deliver goods within an hour in central Tokyo. The service area initially comprises eight wards, including Setagaya, and will be expanded in steps, the Internet-based retailer said. The service is for Amazon Prime members, who enjoy various benefits for ...
An auto industry magazine has named the 2016 Chevrolet Volt its “Green Car of the Year.” The hybrid gas-electric Volt was honored Thursday at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Green Car Journal says the car won because of its extended range. Government fuel-economy figures show that the Volt can go ...
Japan's economy is shrinking, but it is not in a recession—at least not if that word has any meaning at all.Well, other than the fact that technically it is. Japan's gross domestic product just contracted for the second quarter in a row, which, yes, is the rule of thumb we use ...
NEXT month will probably see the first great divergence in monetary policy since the financial crisis of 2008. The Federal Reserve is widely expected to push through a rate increase—its first since 2006. But the European Central Bank is expected to cut its deposit rate, already in negative territory, or ...
The average monthly starting salary for new university graduates in Japan in 2015 rose 0.8 percent from the previous year to ¥202,000, up for the second straight year, the labor ministry said Thursday. Wages started increasing at not only major companies but also small and midsize businesses on the back ...
Stocks gained further ground Thursday on the back of Wall Street’s sharp rise overnight and brisk showings by other Asian stocks, with the benchmark Nikkei average rewriting its highest close in some three months. The 225-issue Nikkei average advanced 210.63 points, or 1.07 percent, to close at 19,859.81 on the ...
The dollar shed early gains and moved around ¥123.30 in Tokyo trading late Thursday, after the Bank of Japan decided to leave monetary policy unchanged. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥123.36-37, up from ¥123.30-30 at the same time Wednesday. The euro was at $1.0673-0674, up from $1.0650-0650, and ...
The Bank of Japan left its monetary stimulus unchanged on Thursday, signaling Japan’s second recession since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office isn’t enough to alter Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda’s view that the inflationary trend is improving. The BOJ’s decision to keep already unprecedented stimulus unchanged was forecast by all 41 ...
Japan has long been criticized for its low level of English, but children could soon become more proficient in the language just by chit-chatting with an artificially intelligent robot. At least that’s the idea from AKA, a Korean startup based in the United States that is set to officially begin ...
About 4,000 visitors Thursday got a peak at Expocity, the new 170,000-sq.-meter shopping and entertainment complex build on the site of the 1970 World Exposition in Osaka Prefecture. Developer Mitsui Fudosan Co. hopes to see ¥60 billion in annual revenue from the complex, which stands in Expo ’70 Commemorative Park ...
Faced with tightening competition for the textiles it’s been making for almost 100 years, Omikenshi Co. is trying to get into the health-food business, using its cloth-making technology to turn trees into noodles. The Osaka-based company’s best-selling product is rayon, a fiber made from tree pulp. Using a similar process, ...