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Vai alla Scheda Paese »That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Toyota Motor Corp. is betting the keys to longer-range electric cars and cheaper fuel cells may lie in machines that act like humans. The carmaker’s Toyota Research Institute is pledging $35 million over the next four years toward putting artificial intelligence to work on identifying new materials that can be ...
Last year, attention on the Bank of Japan focused squarely on its nine-member board and the thinking of key officials at the monetary affairs department. After six months of monetary policy on cruise control, and little prospect of change in 2017, the spotlight has turned to the financial markets department ...
The Japanese National Railways breakup and rebirth into seven Japan Railways Group companies 30 years ago — a grand scheme that privatized the state-run train services — has delivered a mixed bag of results for operators dealing with the legacy. In a shift in focus to profit generation, from the ...
The bankruptcy filing by Toshiba Corp.’s U.S. nuclear unit highlights the tough business climate in the sector and the scale of the challenge Japan faces in seeking to sell its nuclear technology abroad. Westinghouse Electric Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday as its Japanese parent rushed to ...
Joblessness in Japan falls to 2.8 percent, the lowest in more than 22 years, as consumers remain reluctant to spend their hard-earned yen. The post Japan’s unemployment rate falls to 22-year low of 2.8% in February appeared first on The Japan Times.
President Donald Trump faces one last hurdle to ending nearly seven years of lawsuits over his now-defunct Trump University when a judge decides Thursday whether to approve a $25 million settlement with former customers who claimed they were duped by failed promises to learn success in real estate. When attorneys ...
McDonald’s announced Thursday it will shift to fresh beef in its new made-to-order Quarter Pounder hamburgers in most U.S. restaurants as it seeks to beef up sales in its home market. The fast-food chain by mid-2018 will shift away from frozen beef on the popular hamburger, which will be cooked ...
A coalition of environmental groups challenged the federal permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline in court on Thursday because they say additional environmental scrutiny is needed. The Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council and other groups say the initial environmental review completed in 2014 is inadequate and outdated, and ...
SpaceX is about to launch its first recycled rocket. The Falcon 9 rocket is on the pad at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, poised for a Thursday evening liftoff. It’s the first time SpaceX founder Elon Musk has tried to fly a salvaged booster. The first stage landed on an ocean ...
North Carolina lawmakers rolled back North Carolina’s “bathroom bill” Thursday in a bid to end the backlash over transgender rights that has cost the state dearly in business projects, conventions and basketball tournaments. The compromise plan, announced Wednesday night by the state’s Democratic governor and leaders of the Republican-controlled legislature, ...
Hirata Corporation, one of Japan's top five automation mechanism manufacturers, is working on a joint venture with a Thai company to invest in a factory here.
Ford Motor Co. will hire approximately 400 employees from embattled communications company BlackBerry Ltd. as part of sizable new investments in Canada that include a connected-vehicle research center in Ottawa, the smartphone maker said Thursday. Ford said the Ottawa research center is part of a 500 million Canadian dollar ($376 ...
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 said Thursday. The move brings the total number of cars recalled in the country over the potentially defective air bag inflators to 18.82 million. ...
OPINION: The last time I wrote for this publication I was a man, now I'm a woman. At least that's how the world sees it. Back then I was Mr Jeremy Traylen, an earnest young man teaching economics at Vic and extolling the dangers to the world of Japan's bubble economy. Now I'm ...
Japanese people give a high level of value on etiquette and protocol during any type of business affairs. This rule applies also to foreigners. However, the Japanese are generally very forgiving to foreigners as long as they show respect and an effort to understand the Japanese culture and business etiquette. Often ...
The dollar eased to around ¥111 in Tokyo trading late Thursday, with traders retreating to the sidelines ahead of Japan’s fiscal year-end on Friday. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥111.06-07, down from ¥111.09-10 at the same time Wednesday. The euro was at $1.0737-0737, down from $1.0784-0785, and at ...
Shareholders of struggling Toshiba Corp. Thursday slammed management for a disastrous plunge caused by the company’s failed nuclear gamble, questioning whether the 142-year-old conglomerate can survive the aftermath. “Do you remember last year’s shareholders meeting? (Toshiba said) nuclear power and flash memory would be two core businesses,” a Toshiba investor ...
Stocks lost ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday, with investor sentiment hurt by a halt to the yen’s weakening against the dollar. The 225-issue Nikkei average shed 154.26 points, or 0.80 percent, to close at 19,063.22. On Wednesday, the key market gauge gained 14.61 points. The Topix index of ...
A failed budget travel agency that offered overseas tours repeatedly misrepresented its finances since 2014, according to a petition to commence bankruptcy proceedings obtained by Kyodo News on Thursday. The Tokyo-based travel agency Tellmeclub incurred an operating loss of more than ¥1.5 billion ($13.5 million) in its last financial year ...
U.S. regulators have approved the first drug for an aggressive kind of multiple sclerosis that steadily reduces coordination and the ability to walk. The Food and Drug Administration approved Ocrevus late Tuesday after a large study found it slowed progression of the neurological disease and reduced symptoms. While there are ...
The nation’s carmakers in February logged their largest domestic output in nearly three years, it was learned Wednesday. According to data from the automakers, the combined domestic output by eight major makers rose 12.5 percent from a year earlier to 810,994 vehicles in the reporting month, extending the uptrend to ...