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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
(Teleborsa) - Di nuovo in salita a febbraio gli ordini di macchinari in Giappone, a conferma di una certa volatilità dell'attività di business delle aziende industriali. Il totale degli...
A judge denied bail Tuesday to a Canadian man accused in a massive hack of Yahoo emails. Karim Baratov, 22, has alleged ties to Russian agents and access to significant amounts of cash, making him a serious flight risk if freed on bail, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Baratov was arrested ...
The Trump Organization, the conglomerate that unites the U.S. president’s family business interests, has settled lawsuits with two celebrity chefs who refused to work at the company’s new Washington hotel. The firm announced the agreement with Geoffrey Zakarian on Monday, three days after announcing the deal with Spanish-born Jose Andres. ...
Core private-sector machinery orders rose a seasonally adjusted 1.5 percent in February from the previous month, boosted by robust demand for equipment in the manufacturing sector, government data showed Wednesday. The orders came to ¥850.5 billion ($7.8 billion). These figures exclude orders from ships and utilities because of volatility in ...
Toyota is introducing a wearable robotic leg brace designed to help partially paralyzed people walk. The Welwalk WW-1000 system is made up of a motorized mechanical frame that fits on a person’s leg from the knee down. The patients can practice walking wearing the robotic device on a special treadmill ...
Japan Inc., where companies with roots going back decades, if not centuries, have long dominated, is finally warming up to startups. Major banks and venture capitalists are keen to tap into faster growth by investing in innovative entrepreneurs, when they can find them. Money raised for ventures in Japan reached ...
Sapporo Breweries Ltd. filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the government with the Tokyo District Court seeking a return tax money the company paid on its beer-like alcoholic beverage Goku Zero. The beer maker has been seeking the return of ¥11.5 billion ($104 million) in additional liquor tax it paid for ...
The Senate’s top Democrat says President Donald Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns is going to make this year’s promised overhaul of the tax code “much harder.” Sen. Charles Schumer says Trump is opening himself to second guessing about his motives for supporting different policies and that the average ...
Google said it’s “taken aback” by the government’s claim that it doesn’t compensate women fairly. The company said it conducts “rigorous analyses” that its pay practices are gender-blind and found “no gender pay gap” in 52 major job categories it analyzed last year. Google added that analysts who calculate suggested ...
United is getting pummeled on late-night TV. Online, jokers are proposing new corporate slogans such as “We’ll drag you all over the world” and “We have red eye and black eye flights available.” On Wall Street, the airline briefly lost nearly $1 billion in market value before its stock regained ...
The idea of forming a consortium of Japanese companies to invest in Toshiba Corp.’s flash memory business will be difficult to realize, Japanese business leader Yoshimitsu Kobayashi said Tuesday. “The point is how a profitable scenario can be created” in such an investment, Kobayashi, chairman of the Japan Association of ...
Toshiba Corp. may forgo the highest bid for its semiconductor business, from Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., because of likely opposition from the Japanese and American governments, according to people familiar with the matter. Taiwan’s Hon Hai, which has indicated its willingness to pay as much as ¥3 trillion ($27 ...
Bank deposits in Japan have exceeded ¥700 trillion for the first time, due to an influx of funds amid low interest rates that are the result of the Bank of Japan’s monetary easing policy, industry data showed Tuesday. The low interest rates have reduced investment returns in financial markets, causing ...
TOKYO - Toshiba Corp, the 142-year-old conglomerate, warned on Tuesday it may not be able to continue as a going concern as it grapples with billions of dollars in losses from its Westinghouse Electric nuclear business.
New Emirates routes Emirates has announced three new Airbus A380 destinations, running its flagship three-class double-decker aircraft from Dubai to Tokyo, Casablanca and Sao Paulo. With the triple deployment, Emirates is the first airline to operate scheduled A380 services to Latin America, as well as to North Africa. In addition, ...
More companies are offering jobs to university students on course to graduate next March than the previous year as businesses look to secure their workforce amid a growing labor shortage, a Tokyo-based recruitment company said Tuesday. Among students searching for jobs, 14.8 percent had a job offer as of April ...
The dollar retreated to levels around ¥110.50 in Tokyo trading Tuesday, weighed down by heightened geopolitical risks over Syria and North Korea. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥110.54-55, down from ¥111.32-33 at the same time Monday. The euro was at $1.0590-0590, slightly up from $1.0585-0587, and at ¥117.07-07, ...
Stocks turned lower Tuesday, weighed down by the yen’s appreciation against the dollar on haven buying. The Nikkei 225 average lost 50.01 points, or 0.27 percent, to finish at 18,747.87. On Monday, the key market gauge climbed 133.25 points. The Topix, which covers all first-section issues, closed down 4.55 points, ...
SoftBank Group Corp.’s Masayoshi Son and Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos are heading for a clash in India. SoftBank is closing in on an agreement to combine its e-commerce company Snapdeal with market leader Flipkart Online Services Pvt., creating a stronger domestic player to compete with the American behemoth, according ...
Toyota said Monday it is investing $1.33 billion to retool its sprawling factory in Georgetown, Kentucky, where the company’s flagship Camry sedans are built. No new factory jobs are being added, but Toyota says the upgrades amount to the biggest single investment ever at one of its existing plants in ...
lbany, New York There’s a big string attached to New York’s free middle-class college tuition initiative: Students must stay in the state after graduation or else pay back the benefit. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday that the requirement was added to protect the state’s investment in a student’s education ...