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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Some 70 shareholders of Toshiba Corp. will sue the electronics giant next month for ¥400 million in damages allegedly caused by the stock price plunge brought on by its accounting scandal, it was learned Friday. About 50 of the shareholders, who range in age from their 40s to their 80s, ...
If you somehow missed last week's Japanese trailer for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," you're in for a treat: There is another, as Yoda might say.The new 60-second spot sheds more light on how Finn and Rey meet, showing the two introducing themselves on the Millennium Falcon. Han gives Rey what looks like a ...
La Gran Vía se ha convertido en un centro de usos múltiples para poner en práctica diferentes tipos de vida. Considerando la gran afluencia y la diversidad de actividades que se puede realizar en sus instalaciones, el centro comercial inauguró anoche su temporada de actividades navideñas. En sus instalaciones la Gran ...
Japan's Toshiba Corp said on Friday that it did not need to write down the assets of its US nuclear subsidiary Westinghouse because the business was profitable in general, despite losses in parts of the operations in 2012 and 2013.
In a bid to prevent people with elderly parents quitting their jobs, the government will expand its target for extra nursing care places by 60,000. It brings the target to 400,000 additional places within a decade, a minister has said. On Thursday, Welfare Minister Yasuhisa Shiozaki told a meeting of ...
The dollar sagged to levels around ¥122.70 in Tokyo trading on Friday, dragged down by stock price falls amid a lack of major trading incentives. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥122.67-68, down from ¥122.92-93 at the same time Thursday. The euro was at $1.0775-0776, up from $1.0743-0744, and ...
Throwing itself among tough competition, U.S.-based hamburger restaurant chain Shake Shack Inc. opened its first burger outlet in Japan on Friday. The event attracted about 400 customers, who formed a long line outside as they waited for it to open at 11 a.m. The restaurant is located on the famous ...
Journalists at the Financial Times are considering going on strike in protest against a corporate pension system review proposed by Japan’s Nikkei Inc., which has announced its acquisition of the economic daily. The Times of London reported in its online edition Wednesday that the National Union of Journalists is sending ...
In a potential sign of additional losses at embattled machinery giant Toshiba Corp., U.S. nuclear plant builder Westinghouse Electric Co., a Toshiba unit, wrote down assets by a total of $1.3 billion in fiscal 2012-2013, it was learned Thursday. The parent company has not reflected the losses in its consolidated ...
Idemitsu Kosan Co. and Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. have agreed to merge on an equal footing, they said Thursday, in a move that could trigger realignment in Japan’s highly competitive refinery industry. The second- and fifth-largest Japanese oil distributors, which had announced plans for a merger in July, will integrate ...
The benchmark Nikkei average snapped its seven-session winning streak on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, pressured by profit-taking. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 100.86 points, or 0.51 percent, to end at 19,596.91. On Thursday, the key market gauge climbed 6.38 points. The Topix index of all first-section issues dropped 7.74 ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will promote the government’s measures to prop up the flagging economy, including overdue projects pushing structural reforms, at the G-20 meeting over the weekend, Japanese officials said. He will also explain his intention to enhance aid in the child-rearing and social security sectors. Before his departure ...
The U.S. National Security Agency, seeking to rebut accusations that it hoards information about software vulnerabilities and leaves U.S. companies open to cyberattacks, said last week that it tells U.S. technology firms about the most serious flaws it finds more than 90 percent of the time. The reassurances may be ...
U.S. tech giant Microsoft is setting up centers to keep customer data in Germany, following a series of U.S. surveillance scandals that have alarmed Europeans. Deutsche Telekom will serve as “custodian” for Microsoft’s cloud-based services in Germany and keep data on its home turf, the companies said in separate statements ...
Visiting Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Thursday that his government will back Indonesia’s intention to join the U.S.-led Trans Pacific Partnership trade pact. “We would welcome Indonesia becoming a part of the TPP,” Turnbull told Jokowi when the two leaders visited a market ...
The eldest son of Lotte Group’s founder stepped up his legal attack against his younger brother by suing one of his executives and four Japanese units, escalating a long-running struggle for control over the South Korean retail giant. Shin Dong-joo, who was dismissed from his positions at Lotte’s Japanese units ...
A group of lawmakers from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is set to urge the government and the party’s tax panel to consider taxing internal reserves at companies, it was learned Thursday. The proposal will be aimed at prompting companies to further boost capital spending and increase wages to help ...
Idemitsu Kosan Co. signed a nonbinding agreement to merge with Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K., almost four months after buying a third of its rival Japanese refining company. Idemitsu and Showa Shell, which have a combined market capitalization of about $5.8 billion, expect to complete a deal between October 2016 and ...
Apuntes sobre las candidaturas a la presidencia de la FIFA, cuya elección está prevista el 26 de febrero en Zúrich. Cinco admitidos, por ahora Gianni Infantino (ITA/SUI): El número 2 de la UEFA, conocido hasta ahora como el hombre calvo que preside los sorteos de la Liga de Campeones, ha prometido retirarse ...
Son and his anointed son IT WAS a vintage performance from Masayoshi Son, the 58-year-old founder and chief executive of SoftBank, a Japanese telecoms and technology firm. He was speaking to members of SoftBank Academia, an in-house executive school set up five years ago with the chief purpose of finding his ...
Michel Platini escluso dalle candidature per la presidenza Fifa. I cinque candidati alla guida della federazione calcistica internazionale sono Ali bin al Hussein, Salman bin Ibrahim al Khalifa, Jérôme Champagne, Gianni Infantino e Tokyo Sexwale. Escluso anche Musa Bility. L’8 ottobre Platini, che potrà fare ricorso, è stato sospeso dalla sua carica ...