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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
A stunning 59.6 carat diamond known as the “Pink Star” sold for $71.2 million at a Sotheby’s auction Tuesday in Hong Kong, setting a new world record for any diamond or jewel, according to the auction house. The oval mixed-cut diamond smashed the $60 million pre-sale estimate set by Sotheby’s ...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google said Tuesday it would roll out a mobile YouTube application designed for India, boosting the search company’s presence in a burgeoning market with spotty internet access. Since the fall, Google has been conducting extensive tests in India of YouTube Go, which allows users to save videos to ...
Controversial New Zealand-based internet mogul Kim Dotcom plans to launch a bitcoin payment system for users to sell files and video streaming as he fights extradition to the United States for criminal copyright charges. The German-born entrepreneur, who is wanted by U.S. law enforcement on allegations of copyright infringement and ...
With the use of virtual currency spreading, especially overseas, more retailers in Japan are opening up to payments from tourists via the blockchain technology. The post More retailers in Japan accept virtual currency appeared first on The Japan Times.
The dollar gained ground slightly to move to around ¥110.60 in late Tokyo trading Wednesday, aided by higher stock prices in Japan and abroad and a rise in U.S. long-term interest rates. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥110.60-60, up from ¥110.47-47 at the same time Tuesday. The euro ...
The nation’s three mega-bank groups, including Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, plan to hire fewer new graduates in spring 2018, bucking an upward trend seen in other business sectors. The core unit of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. expects to employ some 1,100 new graduates next spring, down from about 1,200 ...
Daishi Bank and Hokuetsu Bank, both regional institutions in Niigata Prefecture, said Wednesday that they have reached a basic agreement to integrate their operations by setting up a joint holding company in April 2018. The banks will operate under the holding company while they consider the option of merging into ...
Stocks rebounded slightly on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday, thanks to buybacks following U.S. equities’ advance overnight. The 225-issue Nikkei average rose 51.02 points, or 0.27 percent, to end at 18,861.27. On Tuesday, the key market gauge fell 172.98 points. The Topix index of all first-section issues finished up 0.12, ...
The government aims to double the proportion of new vehicles equipped with automatic brake systems to over 90 percent by 2020, in an effort to reduce traffic accidents. To achieve the goal, the government will publicize the benefits of vehicles with the safety technology and review specific measures. The transport ...
Corporate Japan achieved a rare feat in the fiscal year that ended last week. None of its almost 4,000 publicly-traded firms filed for bankruptcy protection. Yet that’s no reason to celebrate, according to analysts who see easy credit conditions standing in the way of a much-needed, corporate restructuring to flush ...
The French group Engie is requiring Toshiba to buy its 40 percent stake in their British nuclear joint venture, NuGen, for about ¥15.3 billion ($139 million). The troubled Japanese conglomerate said Tuesday that the deal was prompted by the bankruptcy of Toshiba’s U.S. subsidiary Westinghouse. NuGen plans to build three ...
North Korea fired a newly developed powerful ballistic missile into its eastern waters Wednesday, U.S. and South Korean officials said, amid worries the North might conduct nuclear or long-range rocket tests ahead of the first summit between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping this week.The initial U.S. and South ...
As global trade is moving upwards, Korea's economic growth will also likely benefit from it. The International Monetary Fund recently put out an outlook that the global trade growth rate would double this year from last year's below 2-percent level. If it indeed materializes, it would be the first time ...
Microscopic molecular vehicles piloted by chemists and physicists will line up in the world’s first nano-car race in France this month — but don’t expect to see anything with the naked eye. Teams from France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, the United States and a joint Austrian-American group have qualified, but only ...
The world’s largest tunnel-boring machine broke through a concrete wall beneath Seattle on Tuesday to reach the end of its long, troubled journey, a milestone in a multibillion-dollar project to replace an aging highway hugging the city’s waterfront. Critics of the effort to build an underground roadway called it an ...
Ralph Lauren Corp. said Tuesday that it is shuttering its high-profile Polo store on New York’s Fifth Avenue, less than three years after opening it. The closure is part of the New York fashion company’s plan to save $140 million annually. The company said it will close other stores, cut ...
With legislation overhauling taxes and health care on an uncertain path, President Donald Trump returned to the familiar. Trump brought 52 business leaders from New York City to the White House Tuesday to talk about another favorite campaign issue — infrastructure and economic growth. The U.S. economy has so far ...
Major auto brands have decided to pull advertising from a popular Fox News program following reports of sexual harassment involving host Bill O’Reilly. Companies dropping advertising with “The O’Reilly Factor” included BMW North America, Mercedes-Benz and Hyundai, according to statements to AFP. “While it’s hard to tell what the facts ...
It might be a healthy food choice, but Hong Kong’s latest fruit fad is doing serious damage to shoppers’ wallets. From luxury supermarkets to outdoor stalls, expensive premium produce is increasingly on show and sought after by customers. At Hong Kong’s vibrant Yau Ma Tei fruit market, a Malaysian durian ...
The dollar slipped below ¥110.50 in Tokyo trading on Tuesday, as the yen attracted safe-haven demand in the wake of a deadly blast in a subway train in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Monday. At 5 p.m. the dollar stood at ¥110.47-47, down from ¥111.42-42 at the same time Monday. The ...
Thanks to its bilateral trade balance with the U.S., and its current-account surplus with the rest of the world, Japan finds itself on America’s watch list for currency manipulators at a time when the Trump administration is turning up the heat on economic friends and foes alike. While there’s no ...