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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Since her father was elected president of the United States, global sales of Ivanka Trump merchandise have surged and her company has applied for at least nine new trademarks in the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Canada and the U.S. The commercial engine of the first daughter’s brand is still humming even ...
Japanese companies are hoping the just-launched Japan-U.S. economic dialogue will help them expand investment in the United States while bracing for tough demands from the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. The dialogue is expected to “become a foundation for strengthening the two countries’ economic relations,” Sadayuki Sakakibara, chairman of ...
Yahoo is bowing out as a public company with its revenue still declining, a chronic problem that culminated in its sale to Verizon Communications. Despite the revenue downturn, Yahoo fared better during the first three months of the year than analysts had anticipated — a low bar that was another ...
Toshiba Corp. is considering spinning off more key operations such as infrastructure systems to keep its shaky financial standing from affecting its healthy businesses, people familiar with the matter said Tuesday. Its financial problems are clouding the prospects for a renewal in December of a government permit that allows Toshiba ...
President Donald Trump hopes to revive the economic populism that helped drive his election campaign, signing an order Tuesday in politically important Wisconsin to tighten rules on technology companies bringing in highly skilled foreign workers. Trump toured the headquarters of tool manufacturer Snap-on Inc., and then he was expected to ...
Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg laid out his strategy for augmented reality, saying the social network will use smartphone cameras to overlay virtual items on the real world rather than waiting for AR glasses to be technically possible. People will be able to use their phones to play ...
The government in conjunction with five major convenience store operators plans to introduce an advanced self-checkout system by 2025 to mitigate expected labor shortages, officials said Tuesday. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said it will cooperate with Seven-Eleven Japan Co., FamilyMart Co., Lawson Inc., and two other convenience ...
Automakers face a dilemma in China’s huge but crowded market: Regulators are pushing them to sell electric cars, but buyers want gas-guzzling SUVs. The industry is rattled by Beijing’s proposal to require that electric cars make up 8 percent of every brand’s production as early as next year. Consumers are ...
The dollar pared early gains to move around ¥108.80 in late Tokyo trading Tuesday, dampened by a remark by visiting U.S. Vice President Mike Pence. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥108.86-86, still up from ¥108.32-32 at the same time Monday. The euro was at $1.0649-0651, up from $1.0638-0638, ...
Stocks gained further ground Tuesday, buoyed by an overnight rally on Wall Street and the yen’s drop against the dollar. The Nikkei 225 average climbed 63.33 points, or 0.35 percent, to close at 18,418.59. On Monday, the key market gauge gained 19.63 points. The Topix, which covers all first-section issues, ...
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. has settled a damages lawsuit against a former employee accused of giving trade secrets to South Korean rival Posco, informed sources said Tuesday. Nippon Steel in late March withdrew the case against the former worker over the leak of its magnetic steel sheet technology, ...
The government has designated this July 24 as “the day of telework” in a bid to encourage people to work from home and test out the impact on traffic congestion ahead of the 2020 Olympics, which will open on July 24 of that year. Officials said Tuesday that companies and ...
Tokyo’s skyline is set to welcome 45 new skyscrapers by the time the city hosts the Olympics in 2020, as a surge of buildings planned in the early years of Abenomics near completion. The capital will see nearly 50 percent more new high-rise space in the next three years than ...
As of the end of March, Mitsubishi Motors Corp. had not returned some ¥5 billion in tax cuts that buyers of its cars received because of overstated fuel-efficiency, according to informed sources. The amount is part of ¥9 billion the automaker needs to return to the central and local governments ...
A government panel on regulatory reform is in discussions to urge more widespread adoption of the limited regular employment system, in which regular workers are hired on open-ended contracts with limits on their work location or hours. The government has been urging companies to introduce limited regular employment as it ...
The Abe government on Tuesday nominated banker Hitoshi Suzuki and economist Goshi Kataoka to the Bank of Japan Policy Board to replace two members who have frequently dissented against the direction set by Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda. Suzuki, 63, an audit-board member of Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd., and Kataoka, 44, ...
Gamers beware: hackers offering free virtual trinkets don’t care about your passwords or personal data — they are after your employer’s most closely guarded secrets. An employee at a Japanese high-tech company learned this the hard way, duped by a fake giveaway for 300 magic stones for the smartphone game ...
Netflix is on the verge of surpassing 100 million global subscribers, a testament to how much the video streaming service has changed the entertainment landscape since its debut a decade ago. The company will reach that milestone this weekend if its projections are correct. Netflix made the prediction Monday with ...
The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday it forecasts world economic growth to rise by 0.1 point to 3.5 percent for 2017, with growth for the United States unchanged at 2.3 percent and that for Japan up 0.4 from its estimate in January to 1.2 percent. The IMF’s growth estimate for ...
Visiting U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday officially opened the door to a bilateral free trade agreement with Japan, saying formal negotiations on such a move are possible. After Pence and Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso held the first round of their high-level economic dialogue, Pence said: “Under President ...
Source: Migration Policy Institute Country: ColombiaAs the country enters a post-conflict phase and turns its focus to peace and stability, addressing the main causes of internal displacement and developing effective strategies to improve immigration services will be key. By Dayra Carvajal In December 2016, Colombia formally brought to a close a 52-year civil ...