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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
An estimated 890,000 new recruits at companies, public offices and other organizations marked their first day at work on Monday, the first business day of the new fiscal year. Job availability for graduates has continued to improve over the past several years, with 90.6 percent of those slated to graduate ...
Making one of the world’s biggest cities beautiful is a task beleaguered Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. is unlikely to relish. Tepco, which is facing $144 billion in cleanup costs in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, has been assigned the task of removing hundreds of ...
Konami Holdings Corp., which supplies slot machines to some of the world’s biggest casinos, will participate in Japan’s gaming industry if the regulations are as strict as those in Las Vegas. Satoshi Sakamoto, a senior executive director at Konami, said an industry with a good reputation will attract more Japanese ...
Business sentiment improved in March from three months earlier, with a global economic recovery and a weaker yen bolstering exports, a Bank of Japan survey showed Monday. The post BOJ’s ‘tankan’ report shows big manufacturers’ sentiment up amid robust exports appeared first on The Japan Times.
A classic Andy Warhol portrait of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong fetched $12.7 million at auction in Hong Kong on Sunday, Sotheby’s said — well short of the top estimate of more than $15 million. The sale of the 1973 screen print by the legendary U.S. pop artist attracted plenty ...
An oil leak was discovered in Alaska’s Cook Inlet on Saturday, causing a major oil and gas producer to shut down two of its platforms there, officials say. Hilcorp Alaska LLC workers felt an impact on the company’s Anna Platform shortly before noon Saturday, then noticed an oil sheen and ...
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!” ...
A hotel with 153 high-end capsule-type guest rooms recently opened at Kansai International Airport in Osaka to cater mainly to foreign visitors. First Cabin Kansai Airport, located in the Aeroplaza commercial complex near Terminal 1, offers two types of rooms — one dubbed “first class” with 4.4 sq. meters of ...
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation plans to extend $1 billion to a Kuwaiti oil refinery company in concert with Japanese mega-banks and a major British financial firm, it was learned on Sunday. The government-backed JBIC and the commercial bank group, comprising Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, ...
Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. on Saturday officially changed its corporate name to Subaru Corp., the name of its most popular car brand, to enhance its image and boost sales as it marks 100 years since its founding. “By changing the company name, we’re making a resolution to take a step ...
Travel agency JTB Corp. is putting an 11-seat luxury tour bus into service this month that it says will offer comfort similar to first-class plane cabins. The company says the luxury ride, specially modified from a 45-seat bus, features leather-covered seats that recline deeper than conventional seats and have viewing ...
Japan’s first outdoor Legoland park opened in Nagoya on Saturday, raising hopes that more tourists will visit the area and deliver an economic boom to the nation’s third-largest business region. With children’s tickets priced higher than those at Tokyo Disneyland, Legoland Japan offers various rides inspired by the Danish construction ...
Toshiba Corp. will likely miss a third deadline to report its fourth-quarter business results, two sources said, forcing the conglomerate to ask for a fresh extension or face a possible delisting from the Tokyo Stock Exchange. A postponement of the report past the April 11 deadline looks necessary because Toshiba’s ...
Russians, who are among the biggest drinkers in the world, are developing a new taste for alcohol-free beer, which could help save a brewing industry that has stalled under government initiatives to discourage drinking. Sales of zero-alcohol beer jumped 12 percent last year even as the broader Russian market shrank ...
Source: UN Security Council Country: Cameroon, Chad, Niger, NigeriaThe Security Council adopted its first resolution addressing Boko Haram’s presence in the region, expressing concern about the protection needs of civilians affected by terrorism.SC/12773 SECURITY COUNCIL 7911TH MEETING (PM) Egypt Calls for Full Participation in Negotiations as Russian Federation Says Text ...
A team of researchers at Shizuoka University is hitching a ride on Japan’s bullet train technology, aiming to transmit targeted advertising at high speeds. Using a groundbreaking technique called high-speed suggestive particle mapping (HS-SPAM), the system relies on embedded arrays of microscopic LEDs that flash subliminal messages. The initial tests, ...
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Friday it will appoint Tomoaki Kobayakawa, the 53-year-old head of the group’s electricity retail arm, as president, rejuvenating top management amid increasing pressure for corporate reform. The operator of the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant also named Takashi Kawamura, honorary chairman of ...
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. reported an unexpected rise in quarterly earnings after the main assembler of Apple Inc.’s devices rode record iPhone sales during the pivotal holiday shopping period. The world’s biggest contract manufacturer of electronics reported a 30 percent increase in net income to 68.8 billion Taiwan dollars ...
Stocks lost further ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, pushed down by position-adjustment selling ahead of the weekend. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 153.96 points, or 0.81 percent, to close at 18,909.26, the lowest finish since Feb. 9. On Thursday, the key market gauge shed 154.26 points. The Topix ...
Japan’s industrial output rose 2.0 percent in February from the previous month to a three-year high, reflecting robust growth in the vehicle and industrial machinery sectors, government data showed Friday. The better-than-expected reading followed a revised 0.4 percent fall in January. In a nod to relatively solid output forecasts, the ...
Five carmakers including Toyota Motor Corp. are recalling an additional 1.04 million vehicles in Japan equipped with air bags made by Takata Corp., the transport ministry has said. The move, announced Thursday, brings the total number of cars recalled in the country over the potentially defective air bag inflators to ...