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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Should the “Fearless Girl” stand up to Wall Street’s charging bull forever? That’s the question New York City officials are facing after a statue of a ponytailed girl in a windblown dress went up in front of the bronze bull early this month and immediately became a tourist draw and ...
Stocks took a sharp downturn on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday, hurt by the yen’s rise against the dollar amid growing concerns over of U.S. President Donald Trump’s ability to carry out his policy pledges. The 225-issue Nikkei average tumbled 276.94 points, or 1.44 percent, to end at 18,985.59, ...
The Hokkaido Shinkansen Line, which connects Honshu and Hokkaido by high-speed train, on Sunday marked its first year of service. Commemorative events were held at Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station in Hokuto, near Hakodate, and Shin-Aomori Station in Aomori Prefecture. At Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station, a ceremony welcomed the arrival of passengers on the Hayabusa ...
Embattled Toshiba Corp. is seeking support from Korea Electric Power Corp. as it prepares for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by its U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse Electric Co., sources close to the matter said Monday. Westinghouse is expected to meet with U.S. utilities and other stakeholders to explain the Chapter ...
An Arkansas lawmaker wants to expand the state’s indecent exposure law in a move that opponents say could criminalize transgender people’s use of bathrooms. Republican Rep. Bob Ballinger’s proposal would make it a crime for people to knowingly expose their sex organs to someone of the opposite sex in a ...
Living in the shadows of the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant’s cooling tower, which soars above Lake Erie in Ohio like an oversized lighthouse, brings with it some give-and-take. On the plus side, it generates tax money that once paid for a high school swimming pool and auditorium. Then there are ...
A recent research report said Korea's industrial competitiveness and growth potential are way behind those of Japan and China. This is a situation again in which Korea is caught in a nutcracker between China and Japan. According to a report "Evaluation of Industrial Competitiveness of Korean Industry Based on Export Big ...
Japan Exchange Group Inc. will join the nation’s growing telecommuting trend as part of the government’s attempt to reform national working practices to reduce karoshi, or death from overwork The operator of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Osaka Exchange, also known as JPX, will allow employees to work from ...
The government plans to appoint Tomoaki Kobayakawa, a director on the board of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., as president of the nationalized utility, it was learned Sunday. Kobayakawa, 53, is president of Tepco Energy Partner Inc., a retail subsidiary. The government plans to have Tepco President Naomi Hirose, ...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was quick to welcome Washington’s approval Friday of a major new pipeline from Canada into the United States, but observers say it creates political headaches for his administration. Trudeau has sought to strike a balance between two competing policies — supporting Canada’s oil and gas sector, ...
The estimated cost of the 2020 Olympic Games has increased astronomically since Tokyo won the right to host it. On Dec. 22, Asahi Shimbun reported that the estimated price could be as much as ¥1.8 trillion. The original bid estimate for constructing new Olympic venues was ¥499 billion and that ...
The Japanese airline industry will enter a new era of competition in April after Japan Airlines is freed from the restrictions imposed after the nation’s former flag carrier got a public bailout, and not everyone is happy. Following its bankruptcy filing in January 2010, JAL received ¥350 billion ($3.1 billion) ...
Twitter confirmed Friday it is considering a paid subscription service that would give frequent users more tools to use the social network for marketing, journalism and other fields. Earlier in the week, the company began conducting a user survey that showed it was looking at building a more powerful version ...
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat insisted today that solidarity between EU member was not only limited to migration but also economic and social issues.Dr Muscat was speaking in Rome, on the eve of the signing of the Declaration of Rome, 60 years after the founding of the EU. He was addressing a ...
Russian Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin expressed eagerness Friday to boost trade with Japan, a Japanese government official said. The two nations have been trying to expand business ties party to make progress on a territorial dispute that has prevented them from signing a peace treaty to end World War ...
Toshiba Corp. is finalizing a plan to let its troubled U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse Electric Co. file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection by the end of the month, sources close to the matter said Friday. The embattled Japanese conglomerate is looking to use the bankruptcy filing to finalize losses related ...
The dollar gained ground modestly to move around ¥111.35 in late Tokyo trading Friday, on the back of expectations that the U.S. House of Representatives will vote for an Obamacare replacement plan. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥111.33-34, up from ¥111.24-25 at the same time Thursday. The euro ...
Stocks gained further ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, as investors stepped up buybacks in view of a pause in the yen’s recent upsurge. The 225-issue Nikkei average climbed 177.22 points, or 0.93 percent, to end at 19,262.53. On Thursday, the key market gauge gained 43.93 points. The Topix ...
Scientists in Germany are testing what they describe as “the world’s largest artificial sun,” which they hope could pave the way toward creating hydrogen to use as a green fuel. The system called Synlight — being developed at the German Aerospace Center near Cologne — is an array of 149 ...
JAKARTA - The number of Indonesian travellers to Japan reached an all-time high of 17,900 in February, up 49.6% from a year ago, due to affordable plane tickets, the increasingly stable Indonesian economy and the easing of Japan's visa rules, according to the Japan National Tourism Organisation (JNTO).
Japan and the United States plan to hold the first round of their high-level economic dialogue in Tokyo on April 18 to discuss infrastructure investment, trade rules and macroeconomic policy, sources have said. The framework, to be led by Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso, who doubles as finance minister, and ...