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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Yamanashi Pref. Small and medium-size jewelry makers in Yamanashi Prefecture are expanding their sales in other parts of Asia on the back of growing demand, with their techniques and designs hailed widely in China and elsewhere in the region. The area’s jewelry industry has prospered in part because of the ...
The nation’s chief negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact on Monday expressed Tokyo’s readiness to take the initiative in talks on the future of the deal following the United States’ withdrawal. “Japan is willing to assume a leading role to help the (remaining) 11 countries unite and find ...
Stocks gained ground Monday, supported by brisk corporate earnings and the yen’s weakening against the dollar. The Nikkei 225 average rose 113.78 points, or 0.59 percent, to end at 19,310.52, its highest finish since March 21. On Friday, the key market gauge shed 55.13 points. The Topix, which covers all ...
The economy is projected to have grown at an annualized rate of 2.0 percent in the January-March period from the previous quarter in price-adjusted real terms, according to the average estimate of 10 private-sector think tanks. Gross domestic product is projected to mark the fifth straight quarter of expansion, led ...
The Bank of Japan is keeping a wary eye on the steep growth of bank loans to finance the construction of apartment buildings and other rental homes. The BOJ is concerned that the active lending may cause an oversupply of rental homes and an increase in vacancies, resulting in defaults ...
The tightest labor market in decades is showing signs of reversing a long shift toward the hiring of temporary workers. The number of full-time permanent workers in Japan is rising for the first time since the global financial crisis, outpacing growth in temporary jobs over the past two years. “The ...
The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry will increase the target for Japan’s annual broadcast program exports to ¥50 billion by fiscal 2020, according to informed sources. Exports of Japanese programs, including anime and drama series, have been surging. In fiscal 2015 their value jumped 58.0 percent from the previous year ...
IHI Corp. held an opening ceremony Sunday for its heavy concrete factory in Myanmar, becoming the first Japanese plant producing pre-stressed concrete products in Southeast Asia’s newest emerging market. The Tokyo-based heavy industry company, in partnership with Myanmar’s Construction Ministry, opened the $12.2 million facility in the Myaungdagar Steel Industrial ...
Chinese investment in Australia surged 11.7 percent last year to 15.4 billion Australian dollars ($11.5 billion) amid booming demand for agricultural assets and infrastructure, according to a report released Monday. A record 103 deals were signed with Chinese companies in 2016, with 76 percent of those reached with private firms, ...
The award ceremony will be held on May 9 at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.
Japanese investors, traditionally among France’s most loyal lenders, are not yet convinced that French political risks have faded and are staying away from the country’s bonds. Some even exploited a rally in French government bonds last week to sell down their positions further, one London-based trader said. Investors piled into ...
Norway and Australia are racing each other to show they can supply Japan with hydrogen, hoping to fulfill its ambition to become the first nation significantly fueled by the superclean energy source. While Australia has planned to derive liquid hydrogen from brown coal for some time, Norway could steal a ...
The first freight train to link China directly to the U.K. arrived in the eastern Chinese city of Yiwu Saturday after covering over 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles), making it the second-longest route in the world. The journey is the latest effort in China’s drive to strengthen trade links with western ...
Tokyo Electric said Friday that it stayed in the black in fiscal 2016 for the fourth consecutive year thanks to cost-cutting efforts after the 2011 triple core meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant. But the beleaguered utility, which is effectively under state control, said group pretax profit sank ...
In a move prompted by a serious staff shortage and a boom in online shopping, Yamato Holdings Co. has announced it will raise its basic shipping fee for door-to-door parcel deliveries by ¥140 to ¥180, depending on size. The rate hikes — Yamato’s first in 27 years — are expected ...
Sony Corp. on Friday forecasted an operating profit of ¥500 billion for the business year to March 2018, up 73.2 percent from the previous year, on brisk prospects for its semiconductor and gaming businesses. The resurgent electronics giant said it booked an operating profit of ¥288.70 billion for the business ...
The U.S. economy turned in the weakest performance in three years in the January-March quarter as consumers sharply slowed their spending. The result fell far short of President Donald Trump’s ambitious growth targets and underscores the challenges of accelerating economic expansion. The gross domestic product, the total output of goods ...
A hacker claims to have stolen the upcoming season of Netflix’s hit series “Orange Is the New Black” and is demanding that the video streaming service pay a ransom to prevent all the new episodes from being prematurely released online. The hacker, operating under the name “The Dark Overlord,” has ...
Japan's disaster reconstruction minister resigned over his remark that "it was good" that the March 2011 quake and tsunami had hit northern Japan instead of areas closer to Tokyo.Prime Minister Shinzo Abe accepted Masahiro Imamura's resignation Wednesday.Imamura was replaced by Masayoshi Yoshino, former deputy environment minister from Fukushima, which was also hit by ...
El Salvador on Thursday became the first country in the world to ban the mining of metals in what campaigners called a landmark move for environmental protection. The law bans “prospection, exploration, exploitation, extraction or processing of metallic minerals in El Salvador,” according to the text published Thursday in the ...
The dollar was static modestly above ¥111 in Tokyo trading on Friday, with traders retreating to the sidelines ahead of the Golden Week holiday period in Japan. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥111.28-28, almost unchanged from ¥111.27-27 at the same time Thursday. The euro was at $1.0885-0886, down ...