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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The nation’s only underground nuclear repository has received its first shipment of waste, more than three years after shipping was halted in response to a radiation release that contaminated part of the facility and sidetracked the federal government’s multibillion-dollar cleanup program. The U.S. Energy Department said Monday that the shipment ...
Holders of U.S. Treasuries can breathe a sigh of relief as Japan’s spotlight turns to France. Japanese investors offloaded a record amount of French sovereign debt in February while their selling of U.S. bonds slowed, according to data from the Finance Ministry and the Bank of Japan released Monday. Investors ...
The nation’s top three brokerages are cutting back on graduate hires as household investors continue to shun the stock market, squeezing their retail business. The total number of planned graduate hires in 2018 by Nomura Holdings Inc., Daiwa Securities Group Inc. and SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. will be the lowest ...
Major snack companies Calbee Inc. and Koike-Ya Inc. are halting sales of 49 potato chip products due to potato shortages, according to informed sources. The shortages stem from a poor crop due to flood damage caused by typhoons that chiefly hit Hokkaido last August. Calbee will suspend shipments of 15 ...
Daikyo Inc. has developed delivery lockers for individual condominium residents in response to increasing complaints about space shortages in common lockers. The lockers will be installed in all new condominium buildings starting with one Daikyo is set to complete in Tokyo in March 2018, company officials said. The lockers, co-developed ...
Italian satellite launcher company Avio’s successful public offering Monday will help fuel its ambitions to be a leader in the next space race, the company’s CEO said in an interview. Avio, one of the largest satellite launchers in Europe and the first in its category to go public, saw its ...
Toshiba Corp. is considering filing a financial statement for April-December last year with regulators even if it fails to receive approval from an auditing firm, according to informed sources. The struggling Japanese electronics and machinery maker has until Tuesday to file its financial results for the nine months after postponing ...
A top U.S. regulator moved Monday to roll back efforts to allow cellphone use in aircraft, reversing course on relaxing a long-standing ban on in-flight calls. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said he circulated a order, which would require a vote of the commissioners, to “terminate” a 2013 rule-making ...
The number of business failures of Japanese companies with debts of at least ¥10 million fell to a 26-year low in fiscal 2016, according to credit research agency Tokyo Shoko Research. The agency said Monday that the number of corporate bankruptcies over the year to March 31 fell 3.5 percent ...
The dollar rallied above ¥111 in Tokyo trading on Monday, backed in part by a rise in long-term U.S. interest rates, but its topside was capped slightly above the level amid investor wariness over the situation in Syria. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥111.32-33, up from ¥110.60-61 at ...
Business confidence among Japanese workers with jobs sensitive to the health of the country’s economy fell in March for the third consecutive month, due partly to a deteriorating retail environment, the government said Monday. The seasonally adjusted index of sentiment among workers sensitive to economic conditions, such as taxi drivers ...
Stocks gained further ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday, drawing support from a weaker yen. The 225-issue Nikkei average climbed 133.25 points, or 0.71 percent, to close at 18,797.88. On Friday, the key market gauge gained 67.57 points. The Topix index of all first-section issues ended up 9.88 ...
Automotive chip-maker Renesas Electronics Corp. is hungry for more acquisitions amid a wave of mega-mergers in the industry and may need to issue equity shares sometime in the future to build its war chest, Bunsei Kure, its CEO, said Monday. “The fragmented (automotive chip) market will be eventually consolidated into ...
Japanese investors dumped a record amount of French bonds in February, rattled by the rising popularity of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the upcoming presidential election, data from the Ministry of Finance showed Monday. Japanese investors, who were major foreign buyers of French debt last year, sold ¥1.58 trillion ...
The trade ministry said Monday it has begun preparations for a second production test to extract methane gas from methane hydrate deposits off Japan’s central coast. The test is the first since Japan achieved the world’s first extraction of gas in 2013 from offshore deposits of methane hydrate, a frozen ...
Japan’s current account surplus rose 18.2 percent in February from a year before to ¥2.8 trillion, hitting the highest level for the month since comparable data became available in 1985, the Ministry of Finance said Monday. The result came against a median forecast of a ¥2.5 trillion surplus among 20 ...
Toshiba Corp. is reportedly considering selling its unprofitable domestic television business in an effort to boost its financial standing. The post Toshiba mulls selling unprofitable domestic TV business appeared first on The Japan Times.
Russia’s Gazprom PJSC isn’t confident in Japan’s future as a growing natural gas user, which may damp prospects of a proposed pipeline between the countries as Premier Shinzo Abe travels to Moscow later this month. “The demand situation in Japan is not clear yet for the next 15, 20, 25 ...
President Donald Trump has scrapped the tax plan he campaigned on and is going back to the drawing board in a search for Republican consensus behind legislation to overhaul the U.S. tax system. The administration’s first attempt to write legislation is in its early stages and the White House has ...
The average price of a gallon of regular-grade gasoline rose 9 cents nationally over the past two weeks, to $2.43. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday that increased oil prices and the U.S. missile strike on a Syrian airbase contributed to the rise. She says that unless oil prices retreat ...
Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states agreed to work together to promote free trade at a meeting of their economic ministers in Osaka on Saturday. In a joint statement, participants said they will aim to create “high-quality” trade and investment rules in negotiations on the proposed ...