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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The Middle East has an outsize impact on energy here on Earth. One analyst thinks some regional powerhouses may leverage that role into the development of natural resources in space. Countries like the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are developing space programs and investing in nascent private space commodity ...
A Japanese state-backed corporate turnaround fund and U.S. investment fund Kohlberg Kravis Roberts may form a consortium with several Japanese firms to bid for Toshiba Corp.’s chip subsidiary, sources said Wednesday. A consortium of the Innovation Network Corp. of Japan, the state-owned Development Bank of Japan and KKR plans to ...
Central Japan International Airport began the construction Thursday of a commercial complex to showcase the first Boeing 787 jetliner, with the goal of a summer 2018 opening The first floor of the three-story complex — dubbed “Flight of Dreams” — will house the first test aircraft ZA001, while the other ...
The central bank reduces its inflation forecast, signaling that any exit from its unprecedented monetary easing policy remains far away. The post Bank of Japan cuts inflation forecast, maintains stimulus appeared first on The Japan Times.
With the government’s drive to create more flexible and effective working environments, investment companies have been setting up funds to invest in companies focusing on job market reforms, including the promotion of women in the workplace. Fund managers believe that business performance will improve at companies dedicated to labor reforms ...
JTB Japan Travel Corp. said Wednesday it has launched a new joint campaign called JTBeams with clothing store operator Beams Co., with the aim of promoting regional specialties. The first phase of the campaign is focusing on the Kyushu region, with a website promoting the area having been launched. Goods ...
Hitachi Ltd. said Wednesday it will sell its 51.7 percent stake in chip manufacturing device maker Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc. to U.S. investment fund Kohlberg Kravis Roberts to streamline operations and focus on core businesses. KKR plans to acquire all shares in Hitachi Kokusai through a series of transactions, including ...
KOBE -- A "fair trade" offer by a Japanese woman to buy pure coconut oil from a small Indonesian island has changed the lives of the people there, who previously earned a living blast fishing reefs.
TOKYO - Japan's central bank kept its ultra-lax monetary policy unchanged Thursday, forecasting that growth in the world's third-largest economy would remain slow but steady through the fiscal year ending in March 2018.
NAFTA partners Mexico, Canada and the United States plan to swiftly renegotiate their free trade deal, the White House announced Wednesday. U.S. President Donald Trump “agreed not to terminate NAFTA at this time and the leaders agreed to proceed swiftly … to enable the renegotiation of the NAFTA deal,” a ...
A diary kept by a young John F. Kennedy during his brief stint as a journalist after World War II in which he reflected on Hitler and the weakness of the United Nations sold for more than $700,000 on Wednesday. Boston-based RR Auction said the diary sold for $718,750, far ...
President Donald Trump proposed dramatic cuts in corporate and personal taxes Wednesday in an overhaul his administration asserts will spur national economic growth and bring jobs and prosperity to America’s middle class. But his ambitious plan is alarming lawmakers who worry it will balloon federal deficits. The plan would reduce ...
Europe’s claim to be the global champion of open trade and a counterweight to the threatened protectionism of U.S. President Donald Trump risks ringing hollow if it cannot sign a new Pacific free trade deal by the end of 2017. As part of the process, the European Union needs to ...
Japan’s growing labor shortage threatens the nation’s ubiquitous convenience stores, whose business model relies on an army of part-timers packing bento boxed lunches, manning cash registers and delivering goods 24/7. The big three operators 7-Eleven, FamilyMart and Lawson, which have expanded through Japan’s long slump, are scrambling to ease the ...
Internet companies are readying for a showdown with a Republican-controlled government over a policy near and dear to their hearts: net neutrality. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said in a Wednesday speech that he wants to ditch the Obama-era rules, hated by telecoms, that prevent broadband and wireless companies ...
Ivanka Trump has been involved in discussions with the World Bank about establishing a funding operation that would support female entrepreneurs, bank and administration officials said Wednesday. The officials stressed that nothing has been set up yet and that talks are ongoing about how this would be set up. They ...
Department store Nordstrom is getting dragged through the mud on social media for selling a pair of dirty-looking jeans for $425. Nordstrom’s website says the jeans have a “caked-on muddy coating” to embody “rugged, Americana workwear.” A matching mud denim jacket goes for the same price. Some social media users ...
MANILA - Southeast Asian countries will prioritise creating an Asia-focused trade pact this year that includes China, India and Japan, while trade issues with the United States will be put on the back burner, the Philippine trade minister said.
The government-affiliated Shoko Chukin Bank has discovered that 35 of its branches illicitly extended loans worth ¥19.8 billion under a low-interest financing program intended to help crisis-hit small businesses. According to a report released Tuesday by the bank’s third-party investigative panel, 816 loans were made by 99 officials at branches ...
Toshiba Corp. is in the final stages of talks to replace its auditor after the technology conglomerate’s earnings reports failed to get audit certification, sources said Wednesday. Toshiba clashed with its current auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata, over accounting issues related to Westinghouse Electric Co., the tech giant’s troubled U.S. nuclear reactor ...
The dollar surged above ¥111 in Tokyo trading on Wednesday, on hopes for a tax plan by U.S. President Donald Trump expected to be released on the same day U.S. time. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥111.23-23, up from ¥110.31-31 at the same time Tuesday. The euro was ...