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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
A government panel has started discussions on ways to reduce the clerical workload of private companies responsible for reporting residential tax information. The regulatory reform panel, led by Hiroko Ota, a professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, is discussing a system in which municipal governments would directly ...
Beji Sasaki, a maverick businessman who first challenged Tokyo’s status quo four decades ago, says his bidding war with the $13 billion computer giant Fujitsu Ltd. is just the start of his plan to use takeovers to change Japan Inc. Sasaki, a 61-year-old entrepreneur, fashion designer and supermarathon runner, says ...
Nikon Corp. says it has taken legal action in the Netherlands, Germany and Japan over use of its semiconductor making technology by ASML Holding N.V. and Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH. Nikon said in a statement issued Monday that it is seeking to stop ASML and its supplier Zeiss from using ...
The woman seen sobbing in a viral video after an American Airlines flight attendant took away her stroller now has a lawyer — the same attorney representing a man dragged off a United Express flight earlier this month. The Chicago lawyer, Thomas Demetrio, says the flight attendant was “out of ...
Mercari, a mobile e-commerce site that matches individual buyers and sellers, has banned sellers from listing cash after the site operator discovered that ¥10,000 notes were being sold at a higher value. According to officials of the Japanese startup virtual market place, which mainly deals in used items such as ...
A Japanese venture has developed a smartphone case designed to help parents protect their children from becoming addicted to the mobile devices. The Kobe-based company Momo Ltd. plans to begin selling the smartphone case in late August. Called the Otomos, it allows parents to set time restrictions and prevent children ...
Japan and the United Arab Emirates agreed Monday to broaden economic ties as Tokyo eyes an extension in Japanese companies’ rights in many of the Abu Dhabi oil fields prior to their expiration in 2018. “By realizing the early signing of (the investment) agreement, we look forward to seeing a ...
India toppled Japan as the world’s second-largest importer of liquefied petroleum gas as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pledge to provide cooking gas cylinders to the poor and wean them off polluting fuels drove up consumption. Imports of LPG, mostly used as cooking fuel, soared 23 percent during the financial year ...
MapmyIndia, the Indian partner of Japan’s leading digital mapping firm Zenrin Co., is ramping up investment with plans to spend $30 million — equivalent to its total investment in the last two decades — in the next few years to further consolidate its market leadership in India. “We will invest ...
Wall Street is betting Sprint Corp. and T-Mobile US Inc. will soon revive talks on a blockbuster merger, but a recent surge in demand for wireless assets has Sprint exploring other ways to unleash value. Sprint’s parent SoftBank Group Corp. believes the company’s vast trove of wireless spectrum, which can ...
Stocks gained substantial ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Monday, with investors taking heart from the results of the closely watched French presidential election on Sunday. The 225-issue Nikkei average jumped 255.13 points, or 1.37 percent, to end at 18,875.88. On Friday, the key market gauge climbed 190.26 points. The ...
The dollar jumped above ¥110 in Tokyo trading on Monday as the euro soared versus other major currencies on a pro-European Union candidate’s lead in Sunday’s first-round vote in the French presidential election. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥110.07-07, up from ¥109.19-24 at the same time Friday. The ...
The iPhone’s success has transformed the fortunes of dozens of suppliers, from glass manufacturers to the maker of robots that cut metal cases. Now, as Apple Inc. prepares to introduce a new smartphone with an OLED screen, a Japanese refiner better known for its chain of gas stations is about ...
Toshiba Corp. said Monday it will spin off four key operations, including its infrastructure systems, to keep its shaky financial standing from affecting its healthy businesses. Roughly 24,000 of about 30,000 Toshiba employees are likely to be transferred to the newly established companies, but engineers in the research and development ...
About a quarter of all approved clean-energy projects in Japan may no longer qualify for government incentives after failing to meet a deadline to secure grid access, according to preliminary estimates from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. About 456,000 projects totaling 27.7 gigawatts failed to get connections to ...
Sony Corp. will launch a mirrorless single-lens digital camera capable of photographing silently at high speed, targeting professionals and bird watchers who want to shoot without distracting their subjects. The new model, Alpha 9, can continuously shoot up to 20 frames per second with the help of a CMOS image ...
Wilbur Ross says EU, Japan and China in competition to show willingness for deal
No modern airport terminal is complete without an ATM, and Pyongyang’s now has two. But they don’t work — because of new Chinese sanctions, according to bank officials — and it’s not clear when they will. ATMs are an alien enough concept in North Korea that those in the capital’s ...
Seventeen-year-old Oregon resident Brennan Agranoff spends his days going to school, doing chores and running his custom-design sock business. Television station KATU reports (bit.ly/2paEsF7 ) that it’s no simple hobby: Agranoff is the founder and CEO of HoopSwagg, and he has already sold $1 million in custom socks. Agranoff gets ...
Finance Minister Taro Aso said Saturday trade imbalances cannot be fixed through exchange-rate adjustments alone, pushing back against Washington’s calls to have more rigorous IMF scrutiny of currency moves. Earlier, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin at the spring meeting of the 189-nation International Monetary Fund and the World Bank called ...
The European Union is considering legislative measures to harmonize how online platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Google take down hate speech and incitement to violence, a draft document seen by Reuters shows. The proliferation of hate speech and fake news on social media has led to companies coming under increased ...