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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Policy U-turn for Tokyo in plan to relaunch TPP without Trump’s America
Finance Minister Taro Aso on Friday sounded a cautious note about the potential benefits of striking a bilateral trade deal with the United States, saying it would not necessarily give Washington better terms than the multilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership accord, from which it recently withdrew. “There is no guarantee that the ...
On March 27, discount travel company Tellmeclub filed for bankruptcy while a number of its Japanese customers were still overseas on package tours. Owing to the way its trips are paid for, these tourists still had valid return plane tickets but would have to pay out of pocket for accommodations ...
The Bank of Japan is expected to discuss next week whether to lower the central bank’s inflation projection for fiscal 2017, following a recent fall in mobile phone costs. The BOJ Policy Board is scheduled to release its quarterly Outlook for Economic Activity and Prices report, including updates to its ...
Japan’s major convenience store chains are patronizing apartment complexes and adding nursing care services as the population grays at a faster pace. The post Convenience stores expand services, locations for seniors appeared first on The Japan Times.
The world’s major economies are united in their belief that free trade delivers healthy economic growth. But they also agree that more needs to be done for those left behind, and the new Trump administration is letting it be known that it intends to make sure that America’s trade deals ...
Atlantic salmon farming companies are designing huge pens to raise fish in the open seas in a radical shift from calm coastal waters where marine lice have slowed growth of the billion-dollar industry. The drive for new designs by Norway, producer of 54 percent of all farmed Atlantic salmon in ...
Finance chiefs from the Group of 20 major economies on Thursday reaffirmed a G-20 commitment to orderly currency movements as a way to promote world economic growth and ensure stability in financial markets, according to Finance Minister Taro Aso. Speaking to reporters after the first day of a two-day meeting ...
Western Digital Corp. is making a forceful case for its bid to take control of Toshiba Corp.’s memory-chip business amid a fierce bidding war. The San Jose, California-based company is in talks with state-backed investment funds Innovation Network Corp. of Japan and Development Bank of Japan Inc. about options for ...
The finance chiefs of Japan and the United States agreed Thursday that currency issues should be handled at their level, downplaying comments from U.S. President Donald Trump that the dollar was getting “too strong.” Finance Minister Taro Aso, after meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on the sidelines of ...
Amazon Japan G.K. started a fresh food delivery service Friday, allowing customers to receive products they buy in as little as four hours after order placements in some cases. Japan is the third country after the United States and Britain where the “Amazon Fresh” service has been launched. The move ...
The Bank of Japan will continue with very accommodative monetary policy and maintain the current pace of asset purchases for some time, Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said in an interview. While Japan’s economy is doing better than expected a few months ago, the inflation rate is still quite sluggish, Kuroda said ...
Stocks advanced on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday as investors took heart from Wall Street’s overnight rise and the yen’s drop. The 225-issue Nikkei average gained 190.26 points, or 1.03 percent, to end at 18,620.75. On Thursday, the key market gauge lost 1.71 points. The Topix index of all first-section ...
The dollar gave up some early gains to fluctuate around ¥109.20 in Tokyo trading late Friday, with a wait-and-see mood growing ahead of the first round of France’s presidential election on Sunday. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥109.19-24, up from ¥109.00-00 at the same time Thursday. The euro ...
Sony Corp. Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai is showing the turnaround at the multinational conglomerate was no fluke. The company reported a preliminary operating profit of ¥285 billion for the fiscal year through March 31, 19 percent higher than its previous forecast, according to a statement Friday. It also said ...
Fujifilm Holdings Corp. said Thursday it will postpone the release of earnings reports for the business year ended in March after it discovered about ¥22 billion ($201.7 million) in net profits may have been incorrectly declared over the past several years. The camera, cosmetics and medical equipment maker said it ...
A Starbucks barista has taken to social media hoping to make orders for the coffee chain’s much buzzed about Unicorn Frappuccino disappear. Starbucks’ entry into the unicorn food craze was released Wednesday and its popularity was too much for 19-year-old Colorado barista Braden Burson. He posted a video (now-deleted) on ...
A Slovakia-based company unveiled the commercial design for a flying car priced at more than $1 million on Thursday, saying it was ready for pre-orders with first deliveries expected by 2020. AeroMobil said its teardrop-like shaped AeroMobil Flying Car, displayed at the Top Marques Monaco, could switch to flight mode ...
NTT Docomo Inc. plans to allow employees to flexibly combine work from home and in office during a day as part of its work style reforms, Jiji Press learned Thursday. The mobile phone giant will start a program in October to enable employees to split their daily work hours, covering ...
As delivery firms struggle to manage overwhelming numbers of parcels, e-commerce giant Amazon Japan G.K. is expanding its same-day Prime Now delivery service to include cooked meals and other items. Amazon Japan said Tuesday it teamed up with Mitsukoshi’s flagship store in Tokyo’s Nihonbashi district to deliver foods such as ...
General Motors announced Thursday that it was shuttering its operations in Venezuela after authorities seized its factory in the country, a move that could draw the Trump administration into the escalating chaos engulfing the South American nation amid days of deadly protests. The plant in the industrial city of Valencia ...