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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
An oil well leaking natural gas on Alaska’s North Slope has been successfully plugged, according to private and government responders. BP Exploration Alaska Inc. confirmed Monday that its well five miles from the airport at Deadhorse was successfully “killed” overnight. The method of plugging the well was not immediately announced. ...
With ample liquidity supplied by its central bank and facing an anaemic economy back home, many Japanese companies do not have to look any farther west than Southeast Asia to ply their trade and expand their business empires.
Real estate investment in China remained robust in the first quarter from a year earlier, official data showed Monday, as the pace of new construction quickened, despite intensified government cooling measures. Growth in property investment, which includes residential, commercial and office spaces, accelerated to 9.1 percent from 8.9 percent in ...
Japan and the United States should create fair and transparent rules for global trade and investment under a new economic dialogue between the two countries, former trade minister Akira Amari said in an interview. The two countries should map out a trade and investment vision that will be promoted globally, ...
After a brief rally, the dollar dropped to around ¥108.30 in Tokyo trading on Monday, pressured chiefly by unabated geopolitical risks over North Korea. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥108.32-32, down from ¥108.93-94 at the same time Friday. The euro was at $1.0638-0638, up from $1.0619-0621, and at ...
Japan does not manipulate its currency, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Monday. The U.S. Treasury Department’s decision to keep Japan on its monitoring list for currency policy does not mean that Tokyo is being asked to do something in response, the government’s chief spokesman said at a news conference. ...
Yamato Transport Co. and e-commerce and mobile game operator DeNA Co. on Monday started a trial of a new on-demand delivery method that allows customers to retrieve parcels at a place and time of their choosing. With a view that autonomous driving will soon become commonplace, the two companies will ...
Stocks snapped their four-session losing streak on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Monday, supported by buying on dips by individual investors. The 225-issue Nikkei average gained 19.63 points, or 0.11 percent, to end at 18,355.26. On Friday, the key market gauge lost 91.21 points. The Topix index of all first-section issues ...
Trump’s commerce secretary makes new attack on trade surpluses of China, Europe and Japan
Korea's tax burden-to-GDP ratio is on an upward trend but still remains low compared to other organization for economic cooperation and development member countries. According to the OECD on April 16, Korea's tax burden-to-GDP ratio remained the lowest among OECD member countries. As of 2015, the ratio stood at 18.5 ...
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence declared Monday the "era of strategic patience is over" with North Korea, expressing impatience with the unwillingness of the regime to move toward ridding itself of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.Pence told reporters near the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea that President Donald ...
All Nippon Airways held a ceremony on Sunday to mark 30 years since the major Japanese carrier launched its first regular route to China. “We reached the milestone thanks to the support from our customers and people concerned,” Takao Nannichi, head of ANA’s branch at Narita International Airport, told the ...
U.S dairy farmers already struggling with low milk prices worry President Donald Trump’s talk of renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement could harm trade to Mexico, its biggest export market. About 15 percent of dairy production in the United States is exported with one-third valued at $1.2 billion going ...
Some Japanese farmers have begun looking to biogas technology to allow them to turn their properties into power plants, giving them a way to transform animal and other waste into profits. Biogas is a combustible substance consisting mainly of methane that can be produced through fermentation of organic materials such ...
Japanese stocks have been battered so badly that they’re too cheap to ignore, says the $165 billion investor Pictet Asset Management Ltd., after the Topix index tumbled to its fifth straight weekly loss. “It’s a buying opportunity,” Hiroshi Matsumoto, head of Japan investment at the money manager, said in a ...
Business owner Hu Weibing weeps at the prospect of losing everything, including his home, after China’s surprise announcement to transform a rural spot outside Beijing into a modern metropolis nearly three times the size of New York City. Hu’s family run-clothing factory in the northern province of Hebei could close ...
Robert W. Taylor, who was instrumental in creating the internet and the modern personal computer, has died. He was 85. Taylor, who had Parkinson’s disease, died Thursday at his home in the San Francisco Peninsula community of Woodside, his son, Kurt Taylor, told the Los Angeles Times and the New ...
Naruhito Nogami, a 37-year-old systems engineer in Tokyo, drives to discount stores on weekends to buy cheap groceries in bulk, even though he earns enough to make ends meet and the prospects for Japan’s economic recovery are brighter. “I do have money, but I’m frugal anyway. Everyone is like that. ...
Miss Kindergarten is in the million-dollar club. So are Lovin Lit, the Moffatt Girls and about a dozen other teacher-entrepreneurs who are spinning reading, math, science and social studies into gold by selling their lesson plans online to fellow teachers around the world. Despite worries from some educators, such online ...
Amazon.com Inc.’s Japan unit and the Kumamoto Prefectural Government have signed an agreement aimed at boosting sales of local specialties to support its recovery from last year’s earthquakes in Kyushu. Under the arrangement, a special section was created on the online retail giant’s website to promote Kumamoto goods and provide ...