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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
President Donald Trump directed his administration Thursday to expedite a just-launched investigation into whether steel imports are jeopardizing U.S. national security, saying, “This is not an area where we can afford to become dependent on other countries.” Executives from U.S. steelmakers, who support the review, stood behind Trump as he ...
Japan has less room to compromise with the United States under a bilateral trade deal than under a multilateral agreement like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso said, taking a swipe at U.S. attempts to directly pressure Tokyo into opening up heavily-protected markets like agriculture. Also also said ...
The Fair Trade Commission on Thursday searched sites linked to three major food can manufacturers, including industry leader Toyo Seikan, for allegedly forming an effective cartel in violation of the anti-monopoly law. The other two are Hokkai Can and Daiwa Can. According to sources familiar with the FTC probe, the ...
The benchmark Nikkei average turned slightly lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday amid a wait-and-see mood prior to the French presidential election on Sunday. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 1.71 points, or 0.01 percent, to close at 18,430.49. On Wednesday, the key market gauge rose 13.61 points. But the ...
Mitsubishi Aircraft is looking to display its new regional aircraft at the Paris Air Show in June as it seeks more overseas orders for Japan’s first passenger jet after delaying the plane’s debut five times. The company is working out details on how it can use one of four aircraft ...
A new shopping complex opened Thursday at the former site of the Matsuzakaya department store in Tokyo’s Ginza district featuring high-end boutiques and a traditional performing art theater targeting both foreign tourists and domestic customers. The 13-story Ginza Six complex hosts a total of 241 shops, including flagship outlets for ...
Facebook on Wednesday unveiled projects aimed at allowing users to use their minds to type messages or their skin to hear words. “Speech is essentially a compression algorithm, and a lousy one at that,” Facebook executive and former DARPA director Regina Dugan told a packed audience at its annual conference ...
Singapore may have just added a new tech billionaire, but it had to lure him from Japan first. Taizo Son, who built his fortune on hit smartphone game “Puzzle & Dragons,” has relocated to the city-state from Tokyo and plans to invest $100 million (about ¥11 billion) in Southeast Asia ...
Japan Post Holdings Co. might post impairment losses worth hundreds of billions of yen for fiscal 2016 related to its acquisition of an Australian logistics firm in 2015, sources close to the matter said Thursday. Toll Holdings Ltd. is reeling from declining parcel volumes sparked by a drop in Australia’s ...
Japan’s Suzuki Motor Corp. is unveiling the Ignis urban sport utility vehicle in Indonesia, in its inaugural launch of the model in Southeast Asia, as it seeks to regain market share once held by the popular Splash. Suzuki’s local sales arm, PT. Suzuki Indomobil Sales, will start selling the new ...
Thirteen state agencies have pledged to keep a special watch on four businesses -- direct sales, tourism, e-commerce and food supplement production and distribution -- to prevent incidents such as the fake Japan tour scam from recurring.
China is defending its handling of trademark applications from President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, and her company, saying that all such requests are handled fairly. Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Lu Kang was asked about the trademarks Wednesday, a day after The Associated Press reported that Ivanka Trump had won ...
Japan posted its first trade surplus in six years in fiscal 2016, standing at ¥4.01 trillion ($37 billion), as the value of imports fell sharply amid persisting low oil prices, government data showed Thursday. With the yen showing an average 10 percent appreciation against the dollar, Japan also saw the ...
A Nevada crash that nearly killed a young woman has exposed a hole in the government’s efforts to get dangerous Takata air bag inflators off the road: There’s nothing that prevents the devices from being taken from wrecked cars and reused. Karina Dorado’s trachea was punctured by shrapnel from an ...
Toyota Motor Corp. has announced a plan to conduct tests of its Mirai, the world’s first commercially available fuel cell vehicle, in China from October. Two Mirai vehicles will be used for the performance tests, which will last through 2020. The leading Japanese automaker will also set up a hydrogen ...
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 ...
The benchmark Nikkei average managed to extend its winning streak to a third session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday, aided by buying on dips. The 225-issue Nikkei average rose 13.61 points, or 0.07 percent, to finish at 18,432.20. On Tuesday, the key market gauge climbed 63.33 points. On the ...
The dollar was almost flat around ¥108.80 in Tokyo trading late Wednesday after recouping its early losses thanks to the resilience of Tokyo stocks as well as a rise in U.S. long-term interest rates. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥108.82, almost unchanged from ¥108.86-86 at the same time ...
Transportation service group Yamato Holdings Co. said Tuesday it will pay about 47,000 employees ¥19 billion in unpaid overtime for the past two years. The parent of leading parcel delivery company Yamato Transport Co. admitted that many of its drivers had to work long hours, including overtime without pay, a ...
Mizuho Bank has become the second Japanese commercial bank to sign a “murabaha” credit facility agreement with Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector, an arm of the multinational Islamic Development Bank group. Under the deal concluded in Kuala Lumpur with Mizuho Bank (Malaysia) Bhd. last week, the ...
Sharp Corp. is considering a joint bid with parent company, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., to invest in embattled Toshiba Corp.’s memory chip business, a Sharp executive said Wednesday. By teaming up with the Japanese electronics firm, Hon Hai, the Taiwan-based main assembler for Apple Inc., may be attempting to ...