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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Beijing will open its borders to U.S. beef, while cooked Chinese poultry is closer to landing on American supermarket shelves under a U.S.-China trade agreement. Trump administration officials hailed the deal as a significant advance toward boosting U.S. exports and closing America’s trade gap with the world’s second-largest economy. U.S. ...
The idea of Japan joining the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is finding renewed enthusiasm within the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, sources have said. The idea has advocates within the Prime Minister’s Office and the trade ministry, and is backed by Toshihiro Nikai, the secretary general of Abe’s ...
Nomura Holdings is in discussions to sell its stake of about one-third in the brokerage’s real estate unit to Japan Post Holdings, according to people familiar with the talks. Japan Post, which holds many real-estate assets across the country, including some 24,000 post offices, aims to develop real-estate operations into ...
Finance Minister Taro Aso and some of his Group of Seven (G-7) peers have stressed the importance of promoting free trade as part of an effort to address inequality, a senior Finance Ministry official said. They made the comment Friday, the first day of a two-day Group of Seven financial ...
The new China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is not competing with the long-established Asian Development Bank backed by Japan and the United States, the Beijing-based bank’s leader said Thursday. Instead, the two complement each other and enjoy “very good cooperation,” the Beijing-based bank’s leader Jin Liqun said Thursday. Speaking to ...
SoftBank Group may propose to T-Mobile US that the American mobile carrier enter merger talks with SoftBank’s U.S. subsidiary Sprint, sources said Thursday. This comes after an earlier bid to buy T-Mobile US and merge it with Sprint — a move SoftBank abandoned in 2014 thwarted by difficulties in getting ...
Stocks fell back on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, dragged down by selling to lock in profits from recent gains. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 77.65 points, or 0.39 percent, to close at 19,883.90. On Thursday, the key market gauge advanced 61.46 points, marking its highest finish since Dec. 1, ...
The dollar dropped to levels near ¥113.50 in Tokyo trading on Friday as traders stepped up selling to adjust positions following the U.S. currency’s recent rapid ascent, as well as ahead of the weekend. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥113.59-60, down from ¥114.20-20 at the same time on ...
Like any good love affair, it has had its ups and downs. Having sold French sovereign debt for the fifth month in a row in March, Japanese investors may start to rekindle their interest, according to fund managers interviewed by Bloomberg including Nissay Asset Management and Amundi Asset Management. Emmanuel ...
Microsoft on Thursday debuted hardware for reaching into virtual worlds powered by its technology as it looked to “mixed reality” as the next big computing platform. An update coming to the Windows 10 operating system later this year will “see the magic of mixed reality brought to consumers around the ...
Nikon said Thursday it recorded a group net loss of ¥7.11 billion ($62 million) in the fiscal year that ended in March, citing restructuring costs for pulling the company into the red for the first time in seven years. The loss represents a reversal from a net profit of ¥18.25 ...
Panasonic said Thursday its net profit fell 9.6 percent in the fiscal year that ended in March, as its solar energy business struggled and a stronger yen pushed down overseas earnings. The electronics maker said its group net profit fell to ¥149.36 billion ($1.3 billion) from ¥165.21 billion in the ...
In recent weeks there have been two well-reported robberies of people carrying large amounts of cash on the street. Thieves got away with ¥384 million after attacking a merchant in a Fukuoka parking lot. In Tokyo’s Ginza district, a mugger managed to take ¥40 million from a man walking along ...
Finance chiefs from some of the world’s richest nations began a two-day meeting in Italy on Friday, with Europe, Japan and Canada hoping to come away with a clearer picture of U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans on important policies. Inequality, international tax rules, cyber security and blocking the funding of ...
Malta has secured an agreement amongst European Union Member States on a new European methodology on anti-dumping, as part of its Trade Defence Instruments.This new methodology was endorsed by all EU Trade Ministers at the Foreign Affairs Council on Trade held in Brussels, and presided by Minister for the Economy, Investment and Small ...
The largest cargo ship ever to visit ports on the U.S. East Coast is so long the Statue of Liberty and Washington Monument could fit end-to-end along its deck and still leave room for Big Ben. The COSCO Development arrived Thursday at the Port of Savannah after cruising past dozens ...
Yen for Living Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku In recent weeks there have been two well-reported robberies of people carrying large amounts of cash on the street. Thieves got away with ¥384 million after attacking a merchant in a Fukuoka parking lot. In Tokyo’s Ginza district, a mugger managed to ...
Reagan-era trade attorney Robert Lighthizer was easily confirmed Thursday as President Donald Trump’s U.S. trade representative, bringing a tough protectionist approach to national policy. The Senate confirmed Lighthizer by a vote of 82 to 14, with broad bipartisan support. The 69-year-old is returning to familiar territory, having served as deputy ...
Toshiba Corp. is considering extending the deadline for the second round of bidding for its chip business, as its partner, Western Digital Corp., continues to object to the sale, sources said Thursday. Toshiba initially planned to close the bidding on May 19 but is now considering extending the schedule to ...
The private ride-hailing service Uber officially launched operations Thursday in Myanmar’s main city Yangon, aiming to tap into one of the world’s youngest and fastest-growing online markets. The launch follows Singapore-based GrabTaxi’s debut, which began a trial run in the Southeast Asian country about six weeks ago. Uber is one ...
SYDNEY - New Zealand formally ratified the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal Thursday, becoming the second signatory country to do so, and just days ahead of Prime Minister Bill English's visit to Japan to promote trade and economic ties.