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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
One day, Japan’s biggest overhaul of rules for companies in decades will make them more efficient. Right now it’s making things worse. So says Toshiaki Oguchi, part of a group handpicked by the government to give a verdict on how well new codes for investors and businesses are working. Companies ...
An Ibaraki education board member sparks online outrage by suggesting more prenatal screening to reduce difficulties for parents of disabled kids. The post Japan logs October trade surplus on falling oil imports appeared first on The Japan Times.
The Australian government has had barred foreigners from buying a company that owns the world’s largest cattle ranch and other Australian farmland greater in area than South Korea. The company, S. Kidman & Co. Ltd., owns 10 cattle ranches, a bull breeding stud and a feed lot covering 101,411 square ...
Panasonic Corp. has unveiled a compact body camera for police officers ahead of the launch of the product in December in the United States. The 130-gram camera can send recorded movie data to a hard disk system placed in emergency vehicles via wireless LAN, as well as to police stations. ...
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda J is urging companies to do more to tackle deflation, a tacit admission that his massive money-printing exercise has failed and policymakers are losing faith in the point of delivering more of the same. When Kuroda began the stimulus program in 2013, he said ...
Cars and trucks from the 2008 model year or older that were originally sold or registered in high humidity areas along the U.S. Gulf Coast are getting top priority for repairs as the government commences the massive Takata air bag inflator recall. Honda Motor Co. leads all automakers with nine ...
A survey by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry showed Wednesday that 80 percent of the respondents wish to consider changing their power supplier after the full liberalization of the nation’s electricity retail market in April 2016. The ministry reported the survey’s outcome at the day’s meeting of a ...
Japanese retailers started sales on Thursday of this year’s Beaujolais Nouveau wine, produced in the Bourgogne region of France, with the passage of the release time of midnight on Wednesday. Due to the fading of the Beaujolais Nouveau boom, in which people enjoyed celebratory parties on the day the wine ...
The terrorist attacks in Paris may have finally spurred a brand change for Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc., a drugmaker that until now has steadfastly held on to its name even as the militant group rose in prominence in the Middle East. “We want the story to be about the medicines that ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping Wednesday urged Asian economies to sign up to its free trade agreement, warning that rival pacts risk causing “fragmentation” among nations in the region. Both China and the United States are pushing their own free trade visions for the economically vibrant and populous region. Last month, ...
Toyota Motor Corp. notified the Japanese transport ministry on Wednesday that it will recall a total of 443,460 vehicles made between September 2006 and August 2013 for free repairs, due to defects in the continuously variable transmission system and other devices. No injuries related to the defects have been reported ...
The dollar was stuck in a narrow range around ¥123.30 in Tokyo trading on Wednesday, as the market was dominated by a wait-and-see mood in the absence of major trading incentives. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥123.30-30, up slightly from ¥123.26-26 at the same time Tuesday. The euro ...
The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission plans to recommend imposing the fine for falsifying its financial reports, sources said Wednesday. The post Japan’s securities watchdog eyes record ¥7 billion fine for Toshiba appeared first on The Japan Times.
Amazon.com Inc. said Wednesday it has launched a music-streaming service for customers in Japan who pay membership fees for its online shopping site. In the Prime Music service, Amazon.com’s Prime customers, who pay an annual fee of ¥3,900, will have access to more than 1 million pieces of music from ...
Stocks climbed further on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday after gains in overseas stocks and on hopes for additional monetary easing and economic stimulus in Japan, with the Nikkei average briefly hitting the highest level in almost three months. The 225-issue Nikkei average rose 18.55 points, or 0.09 percent, to ...
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda, who unleashed unprecedented monetary stimulus in 2013 and doubled down on it last year, is done expanding his efforts, according to an increasing number of economists. Forty-four percent of respondents in a Nov. 13 to 17 Bloomberg poll do not expect the BOJ to ...
India proposed Japanese pension funds invest in rail projects in the South Asian nation as the government prepares to spend more than $140 billion over five years upgrading its outdated tracks. Indian Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu said he proposed the investment by Japan’s pension funds during a series of meetings ...
Takeshi Fujimaki, a banker turned opposition lawmaker, said the Bank of Japan will achieve its 2 percent inflation target much earlier than expected. And it scares him. The yen will slide toward a more “appropriate” level at ¥180 to ¥200 per dollar over the long term, from about ¥123 now, ...
Fewer apartments have been put up for sale in Tokyo since flaws were found in hundreds of buildings with falsified construction data, threatening to cut short a rally in home prices. The number of apartments in Tokyo and surrounding areas that were offered in October dropped 6.5 percent from the ...
3-D indoor mapping Kozo Keikaku Engineering Inc. announced it has signed a partnership agreement with Munich-based NavVis GmbH to sell and market NavVis’s products, services and value-added services in Japan. One of the products is the M3 Trolley, a 3-D indoor mapping system that captures and digitalizes all details of ...
Sharp Corp. says its air purifying technology is effective in inhibiting bird flu virus. The electronics maker said Tuesday it plans to develop air cleaners and air conditioners using its Plasmacluster Ion technology to help protect humans from the disease. In joint research with Vietnam’s Pasteur Institute, Sharp found that ...