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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
A long-term shift to low interest rates in major economies will heighten challenges to global financial stability by stressing banks and other financial companies, according to an International Monetary Fund paper released Thursday. Part of the IMF’s twice-annual review of financial stability, the report follows moves by the U.S. Federal ...
A federal judge in Detroit said on Thursday he plans to name former FBI director Robert Mueller to oversee nearly $1 billion in Takata Corp. restitution funds as part of a U.S. Justice Department settlement. In January, Takata agreed to plead guilty to criminal wrongdoing and to pay $1 billion ...
Global investments in renewable energy fell by almost a quarter in 2016 amid a drop in prices and lower spending in some markets, according to a U.N.-backed report published Thursday. Overall investments reached $241.6 billion last year, down from $312.2 billion in 2015, said the United Nations Environment Program. But ...
Facebook on Thursday ramped up its fight against “fake news” by adding tips on how to tell when shared stories are bogus. An initiative being launched in the U.S., France and a dozen other countries added an educational tool in an “awareness display” in news feeds at the leading online ...
Twitter filed suit Thursday against the U.S. government, asking a court to back its refusal to hand over the identities of users claiming to be dissenting federal employees. The lawsuit revealed that the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection had sought the unmasking of the @ALT_USCIS ...
Pepsi on Wednesday pulled an ad after it was widely mocked and criticized for appearing to trivialize protests for social justice causes. “Pepsi was trying to project a global message of unity, peace and understanding,” the company said. “Clearly we missed the mark, and we apologize.” It said it was ...
Seven & I Holdings Co., the world’s largest convenience store operator, agreed to acquire Sunoco LP retail shops and gasoline businesses for $3.3 billion (about ¥365.9 billion) in a record deal for the Japanese company as it seeks to expand in the U.S. The deal will add 1,108 gas stations ...
With forestry workers growing older, Oita Prefecture has embarked on a “smart forestry” initiative to reduce workloads, partly through the use of drones. Forests cover 72 percent of the prefecture, with most of them cultivated plantations. Despite the use of mechanization for cutting down trees, planting still involves hard physical ...
The benchmark Nikkei average turned sharply lower to hit a four-month closing low on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday, reflecting U.S. equities’ fallback overnight. The 225-issue Nikkei average tumbled 264.21 points, or 1.40 percent, to close at 18,597.06, its lowest finish since Dec. 7 last year. On Wednesday, the key ...
Toyota Motor Corp.’s Prius hybrid was the best-selling car in Japan in fiscal 2016, topping the sales list for the first time in five years, data released by industry groups showed Thursday. For the year through March 31, the Prius sold 225,066 units, up 44.3 percent from a year earlier, ...
Hitachi Ltd. said it has applied for a site license to construct and operate nuclear power plants in Britain, aiming to start operations from the first half of the 2020s. Horizon Nuclear Power Ltd., Hitachi’s British nuclear unit which was purchased from a major German utility in 2012, will oversee ...
The world’s biggest pension may find that when it comes to returns on its $1.3 trillion in assets, Donald Trump giveth and taketh away. What started as a rally in stocks on his presidential victory five months ago turned into a slump this year, making it harder for Japan’s Government ...
As job openings outnumber job-seekers in Japan, graduates looking for employment have an upper hand. As a result, more firms are trying to woo their parents through seminars and home visits to get ahead of rivals. While students are keen to respect their parents’ opinions when selecting a company, parents ...
Economic ministers from Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are expected to work to bolster cooperation against protectionism and to promote free trade at a meeting in Osaka on Saturday. ASEAN’s ministers arrived on Thursday to kick off a three-day visit. At the Osaka conference, the 10 ASEAN ...
Sharp Corp. plans to nearly double the number of employees at its mainstay Kameyema factory in Mie Prefecture that makes camera parts for smartphones, a senior company official said Thursday. Sharp, restructuring under the ownership of Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., also known as Foxconn, will raise the number ...
Robert Lighthizer has long complained that the United States dithered in the face of abusive Chinese trade policies, allowing its trade gap with Beijing to explode and American factories to close. Now, the veteran trade lawyer may have a chance to do something about it. As President Donald Trump’s choice ...
Federal authorities on Wednesday raided a Los Angeles-area business suspected of cheating the U.S. government visa program to obtain green cards for wealthy Chinese investors. Investigators searched the office of the California Investment Immigration Fund in San Gabriel as part of the fraud investigation. Under a U.S. government program, foreign ...
Ever thought about how many times to knock on the door when you are heading into a job interview? In Japan, it matters. A shortage of young people means there are two job openings for every applicant, prompting some Japanese companies to consider hiring foreign workers. But an interview can ...
Pepsi on Wednesday pulled an ad after it was widely mocked and criticized for appearing to trivialize protests for social justice causes. “Pepsi was trying to project a global message of unity, peace and understanding,” the company said. “Clearly we missed the mark, and we apologize.” It said it was ...
When a freight train derailed in the Montana town of Culbertson, spilling 27,000 gallons of crude oil, investigators blamed the 2015 accident on defective or missing fasteners used to hold the tracks in place. The previous year, cracks in a track that went unrepaired caused a train hauling oil to ...
The Trump administration is so alarmed that Chinese investors may try to purchase Westinghouse Electric Co.’s nuclear business that U.S. officials are trying to find an American or allied buyer for the company instead, two people familiar with the matter said. Cabinet members including Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Treasury ...