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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The benchmark Nikkei average fell back to hit its lowest finish in more than two months on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Tuesday, weighed down by the yen’s rise. The 225-issue Nikkei average fell 172.98 points, or 0.91 percent, to close at 18,810.25, the lowest level on a closing basis since ...
Katakura Industries Co., a Japanese company founded more than a century ago, is no stranger to reinvention. Once a silk producer, it has diversified into making underwear, manufacturing fire engines, operating shopping malls and even bee-keeping. Now, activist hedge fund Oasis Management Co. is pushing Katakura to reinvent itself yet ...
An increasing number of bankers working at foreign firms in Japan are unhappy with their bonuses, and falling expectations for raises are giving them more cause to gripe, according to a Morgan McKinley survey. Forty percent of respondents were dissatisfied with their bonuses, up from 28 percent in 2016’s survey. ...
Tesla Inc. on Monday became the second-largest U.S. car maker in terms of market capitalization, displacing Ford, whose sales lagged amid concerns about the ability of the U.S. market to keep growing. Many major automakers reported U.S. sales declines in March compared with a year ago, but Tesla over the ...
Toshiba Corp.’s planned sale of its flash memory business may not come in time for the firm’s annual shareholders meeting in June, given the time needed to scrutinize bidders amid concerns that information technology might leak to competitors. Toshiba Memory Corp., officially launched on Saturday, attracted nearly 10 potential buyers ...
An egg icon that for years marked profiles of new Twitter users was gone Monday, a victim of “trolls” who often hid behind them to launch anonymous online attacks. For seven years, anyone who created a Twitter account automatically got an egg icon as their profile picture, which they were ...
BMW AG topped its rival in the U.S. luxury auto market for the first time this year, eking out a monthly sales gain and gaining ground on Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz. Deliveries of the X3 and X5 sport utility vehicles climbed 43 percent and 35 percent last month, respectively, pacing BMW’s ...
OPEC isn’t the only decades-old energy hegemony being turned on its head by U.S. shale. Liquefied natural gas sellers from Qatar to Malaysia that dominated gas sales to Asia for years are facing the prospect of rising American exports. While less than 30 U.S. cargoes have landed in Asia, their ...
LG Chem plans to spend 1 trillion won for R&D this year. This is the highest level of R&D spending not only in its 70 year-long history but also among major chemical companies at home. For LG Chem, the share of R&D investment in this year's overall sales estimate (22.82 ...
A newspaper in the Mexican border city of Juarez announced Sunday that it is shutting down because the rampant, unpunished killings of journalists in the country have made it too dangerous to go on. Norte executive Oscar Cantu Murguia informed readers of his decision in a farewell letter titled “Adios!” ...
At a time of public skepticism about globalization, a dozen CEOs from foreign-based companies with big U.S. operations meet Tuesday with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and congressional leaders to talk up the benefits of foreign investment. Executives from Airbus Americas, Panasonic Corp. of North America, Samsung ...
A new study shows international students applied to the University of California last year in far fewer numbers than they did over the 12 previous years, and the decline coincides with the election of President Trump. The San Francisco Chronicle reports (bit.ly/2opCtg1 ) the dip follows more than a decade ...
More than half of the jobs at U.S. newspapers have disappeared since 2001, with a large portion of the losses offset by employment gains at internet firms, government figures showed Monday. The data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed U.S. newspaper employment fell from 412,000 in January 2001 to ...
The Trump administration issued a stern warning to U.S. companies as they began applying for coveted skilled-worker visas Monday, cautioning that it would investigate and prosecute employers that overlook qualified American workers for the jobs. The message came on the opening day of applications for American employers seeking visas known ...
The number of visitors to Universal Studios Japan in the city of Osaka in fiscal 2016 rose by 700,000 from the previous year to 14.6 million, hitting a record high for the third straight year, its operator said Monday. New attractions and events to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the ...
The syringe slides in between the thumb and index finger. Then, with a click, a microchip is injected in the employee’s hand. Another “cyborg” is created. What could pass for a dystopian vision of the workplace is almost routine at the Swedish startup hub Epicenter. The company offers to implant ...
Madrid and London are once again locking horns over Gibraltar, a British overseas territory that appears to have become a Brexit negotiating weapon for Spain and the EU and signals difficulties ahead for Britain. Tensions over the territory known as “the Rock” have ebbed and flowed over the years, but ...
The dollar was weaker around ¥111.40 in Tokyo trading late Monday, dampened chiefly by position-adjustment selling. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥111.42-42, down from ¥111.78-79 at the same time Friday. The euro was at $1.0666-0667, down from $1.0690-0692, and at ¥118.85-86, down from ¥119.51-58. After rising to around ...
Stocks turned higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Monday as business sentiment improved among large Japanese manufacturers in the Bank of Japan’s latest tankan survey. The 225-issue Nikkei average gained 73.97 points, or 0.39 percent, to end at 18,983.23. On Friday, the key market gauge lost 153.96 points, marking the ...
Tomoaki Kobayakawa said Monday he will push through reforms while fulfilling the firm’s responsibilities over the 2011 disaster at its Fukushima nuclear power plant. The post Tepco’s newly appointed president vows to revive business, take responsibility for Fukushima appeared first on The Japan Times.
Astellas Pharma Inc. said Monday it will acquire a full stake in Belgian clinical-stage drug-discovery firm Ogeda SA for up to €800 million ($854 million). The purchase is part of the Tokyo-based pharmaceutical company’s strategy to strengthen its long-term growth by buying out firms with high-level expertise in research and ...