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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Toyota Motor Corp. and 14 affiliates plan to spend ¥42.5 million over three years to support a flying car development team that includes young engineers from the leading automaker, according to informed sources. Currently, the group of young engineers from the automotive and aviation industries and officials from related startups ...
Japan’s wholesale prices rose 2.1 percent in April from a year earlier, up for the fourth straight month due to higher oil prices, Bank of Japan data showed Monday. Discounting the effect of a 3 percentage point consumption tax hike in April 2014, the pace of the increase was the ...
Motherhood is changing, as are mothers’ working lives — and those changes have economists concerned. For a while there, women around the world were making clear economic progress. More were working, and they were earning more (and boosting the global economy in the process). But in the last few decades, ...
Desperate to overcome the nation’s growing shortage of labor, midsized companies are planning to buy robots and other equipment to automate a wide range of tasks, including manufacturing, earthmoving and hotel room service. According to a Bank of Japan survey, companies with share capital of ¥100 million to ¥1 billion ...
Asian governments and businesses reported some disruptions from the “WannaCry” ransomware worm Monday but cybersecurity experts warned of a wider impact as more employees turned on their computers and checked emails. The ransomware that has locked up more than 200,000 computers in more than 150 countries has been mainly spread ...
Troubled conglomerate Toshiba Corp. on Monday said it will delay reporting its annual earnings for the recently ended fiscal year, but warned that it will likely book a net loss of ¥950 billion. The delay comes after it twice postponed its nine-month earnings before releasing unaudited results last month, stirring ...
Opposition to the Dakota Access oil pipeline has persuaded some banks to stop supporting projects that might harm the environment or tread on indigenous rights, but calling the divest movement a success might be a stretch. It doesn’t appear to be hurting the ability of energy companies to get financing ...
Residents of a coastal community in Oregon are considering whether to try to derail a fossil fuel export project in their rural county, a decision that could put them at odds with the Trump administration. The ballot measure before Coos County voters Tuesday would block the $7.5 billion Jordan Cove ...
Olympos, a small Japanese aircraft maker known for its unique products such as a real-life version of a fictional glider from popular animation, is now working on re-creating a defunct classic trainer biplane used by the former Imperial Japanese Army, aiming for its maiden flight next year. Satoru Shinohe, who ...
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ is considering dropping “Tokyo” from its name, which has drawn complaints from customers that it is too long, sources said Sunday. The core unit of Japanese industry leader Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. is likely to be renamed MUFG Bank as early as next spring. “Tokyo,” ...
Combined group net profits at major Japanese nonfinancial companies soared 21.1 percent in fiscal 2016, which ended in March, according to a Jiji Press tally. The survey covered 1,117 nonfinancial companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s first section that have already released their earnings reports. Of them, 387 firms ...
Shifting to a free trade agreement with Japan instead of staying with the Trans-Pacific Partnership pact will halve the long-term economic effect on the United States, an economist says. The activation of the original 12-member TPP, including the United States, would lift the country’s real gross domestic product by 0.77 ...
Nissan Motor Co. is trying to fix a manufacturing system at its English plant affected by the recent global cyberattack, and other Japanese companies with bases in Britain continue to gather information. The post Nissan manufacturing facility in England hit by cyberattack appeared first on The Japan Times.
Japan is among the countries affected by a global cyberattack, according to the cybersecurity firms Trend Micro and Kaspersky Lab, but the extent is not yet known. The National Police Agency said it was working to assess the damage to Japanese firms. Kaspersky said the main target of the cyberattack ...
Spend enough time hunting terrorists or wandering dystopian wastelands in online games and you are bound to come across players hurling xenophobic and racist taunts at each other, from Islamophobes in Europe to South Koreans and Japanese bickering over disputed islands. Take the survival shooter game “H1Z1: King of the ...
The cyberattack that spread malicious software around the world, shutting down networks at hospitals, banks and government agencies, was thwarted by a young British researcher and an inexpensive domain registration, with help from another 20-something security engineer in the U.S. Britain’s National Cyber Security Center and others were hailing the ...
The cyberextortion attack hitting dozens of countries spread quickly and widely thanks to an unusual confluence of factors: a known and highly dangerous security hole in Microsoft Windows, tardy users who didn’t apply Microsoft’s March software fix, and a software design that allowed the malware to spread quickly once inside ...
Group of Seven finance chiefs on Saturday pledged to combat the issue of inequality as part of an effort to ensure inclusive growth but made no reference to “protectionism” in an apparent division over U.S. President Donald Trump’s stance on trade. In a communique issued after their two-day meeting in ...
Hokkaido’s potato farmers haven’t recovered from last summer’s typhoons, which means consumers will have to wait until at least fall before the usual range of potato chip products returns to store shelves. The farm ministry expects the chip shortage to last until the island prefecture’s next harvests get underway in ...
Group of Seven finance chiefs signed up to a pared-down pledge Saturday on global trade as the presence of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration of the world stage continued to redefine the established economic order. The G-7 nations, meeting in Bari, southern Italy, said in a statement that they are ...
A relative majority of 45% agree with political parties being funded through the state, the seventh edition of the iSurvey shows.Respondents were asked: Do you agree in party financing by the state? Overall, 45% of respondents agree with the idea, 41.9% do not and a total of 13.1% are undecided. ...