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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Just as many readers are swapping paperbacks for tablets, many language learners are trading in their textbooks for apps so they can study on the go. One of the most popular language applications on the market is Duolingo, a program that “gamifies” learning by rewarding players with points and new ...
Major catalog shopping company Senshukai Co. has said that it will open a temporary nail salon in Tokyo that paints nails quickly using a nail printer. The shop, Nail Stand Tsume.co, will open at Shinjuku Marui Annex between June 2 to Aug. 31. The price to paint the nails on ...
Zurich Insurance is deploying artificial intelligence in deciding personal injury claims after test trials cut the processing time from an hour to just seconds, its chairman said. “We recently introduced AI claims handling … and saved 40,000 work hours, while speeding up the claim processing time to five seconds,” Tom ...
Making good on a campaign promise, the Trump administration formally told Congress Thursday that it intends to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico. U.S. Trade Rep. Robert Lighthizer sent a letter to congressional leaders Thursday, starting 90 days of consultations with lawmakers over how to ...
U.S. regulators voted Thursday to scrap a 2015 order aimed at forcing broadband firms to treat all online traffic equally, in the latest turn of the politically charged “net neutrality” debate. The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 to reverse the policy enacted two years earlier and which has been a ...
Japanese companies with operations overseas are making a U-turn to Japan in droves. This is largely because the companies, which moved their manufacturing bases out of Japan in pursuit of cost saving and localization, are now attracted to the Japanese government's offer of incentives such as less regulation and tax ...
A new ferry line between isolated North Korea and its neighbor Russia docked for the first time at the Russian Pacific port of Vladivostok on Thursday. The ferry’s Russian operators say it is purely a commercial venture, but it coincides with what some academics say is a drive by North ...
Toyota, Subaru, Mazda and BMW have reached a proposed settlement that would compensate owners of 15.8 million vehicles for money they lost due to the massive recall of Takata air bags. In documents filed Thursday with a federal court in Miami, the automakers agreed to pay $553 million to compensate ...
Toyota Motor Corp. is mulling issuing up to ¥100 billion ($900 million) in bonds with maturities of up to 20 years to invest in developing next-generation car technologies, sources close to the matter said Thursday. Toyota plans to spend around ¥1.05 trillion on research and development this business year as ...
L'economia giapponese cresce più del previsto: nel primo trimestre dell'anno il Pil è aumentato dello 0,5% rispetto alle previsioni (più 0,3%). Su base annua la crescita...
ANA Holdings is considering drastically expanding international flights on its low-cost carrier Vanilla Air, mainly on routes linking Japan with China and Southeast Asia, group officials have said. ANA Holdings aims to take the step by fiscal 2020, which includes the period of the Tokyo Olympics, as demand from passengers ...
India’s Cabinet approved plans on Wednesday to build 10 nuclear reactors with a combined capacity of 7,000 megawatts, more than the country’s entire current capacity, to fast-track its domestic nuclear power program. The decision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government marks the first strategic response to the near collapse of ...
Ministers from 11 Trans-Pacific Partnership countries are scheduled to gather Sunday in Hanoi, with Japan to push for the massive free trade pact to be put into force as soon as possible without the United States. Japan, the biggest economy among the 11 nations, is keen to gain agreement on ...
When starting out in a new country, having a bank account is essential, but choosing a bank can be difficult without being familiar with banking systems or speaking the local language. For that reason, some Japanese banks are beefing up services aimed at English-speaking residents. The banks are hopeful that ...
The dollar lost further ground to slip below ¥111 in Tokyo trading on Thursday, due to risk-aversion moves sparked by concerns over the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥110.91-92, down from ¥112.44-45 at the same time Wednesday. The euro was at $1.1132-1132, ...
U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry may visit Japan in early June to have talks with Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshige Seko, sources said. Their talks are expected to cover the situation of struggling electronics and machinery maker Toshiba, including the reconstruction of its troubled U.S. nuclear unit ...
Stocks slumped on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday amid growing risk-averse market sentiment on the back of political confusion surrounding U.S. President Donald Trump. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 261.02 points, or 1.32 percent, to close at 19,553.86. On Wednesday, the key market gauge shed 104.94 points. The Topix index ...
Japan’s economy grew 0.5 percent in the first three months of 2017, its fifth straight winning quarter and the longest expansion in more than a decade, government data showed Thursday. Robust exports boosted gross domestic product, up from a 0.3 percent increase in the last quarter of 2016, the Cabinet ...
Funai brand television models will return to the Japanese market for the first time since 2006, with Yamada-Denki to begin selling them on June 2, Funai Electric has said. The 11 new models from five series, including new 4K high-definition TVs, are equipped with hard disks for recording TV programs, ...
The mysterious “Shadow Brokers” group, which leaked the stolen hacking tool used in last week’s global cyberattacks, is threatening to release more such tools next month. In a taunting online message in broken English late Tuesday, the group said it will take payments beginning in June for monthly releases of ...
An escalating battle between Apple and Qualcomm over money and patent rights is drawing in Taiwanese contractors that assemble Apple’s iPhones. Apple claims that Qualcomm is overcharging for patent-related license fees on iPhone sales, a point Qualcomm disputes. Last month, Apple Inc. began refusing to pay royalties until the courts ...