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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The average nationwide residential land price as of Jan. 1 rose a marginal 0.022 percent from a year earlier, the land ministry said in an annual survey covering 26,000 locations. The post Residential land prices level out on solid demand in major cities appeared first on The Japan Times.
Stocks lost further ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday, weighed down by the yen’s ascent. The 225-issue Nikkei average fell 65.71 points, or 0.34 percent, to close at 19,455.88. On Friday, the key market gauge gave up 68.55 points. The Tokyo market was closed on Monday for a ...
In the quest for a faster and more traceable way to transfer money internationally, banks were gravitating a few years ago to Ripple, a platform backed by Silicon Valley luminaries and global financial institutions. Now it’s gotten complicated. New options are surfacing that, like Ripple, use the hot technology called ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged Tuesday to seal a EU-Japan trade deal as early as possible in order to make an important stand against protectionism. The post Japan PM, in Brussels, pushes EU trade deal appeared first on The Japan Times.
Brazil said Monday that China had suspended imports of meat from the South American country over police claims that Brazilian exporters had sold tainted products. “Until it receives more information, China will not unload meat imported from Brazil,” the Brazilian agriculture ministry said in an online statement. It said Brazil’s ...
While Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda has underscored how much work still lies ahead, when the central bank does finally hit its inflation target and exits stimulus, it is likely to face huge balance sheet losses. Kuroda has brushed off the need to discuss the details of what happens ...
Graduate recruitment in Japan looks a bit like a scene from the movie “The Matrix.” Hordes of students dressed in identical black suits and white shirts make the rounds of seminars, tests and interviews. Even as jobs outnumber applicants, these “Agent Smiths” still fight it out for coveted positions at ...
The U.S. government is temporarily barring passengers on certain nonstop U.S.-bound flights from eight Middle Eastern and North African countries from bringing laptops, iPads, cameras and some other electronics in carry-on luggage starting Tuesday. The ban was revealed Monday in statements from Royal Jordanian Airlines and the official news agency ...
Google painted a bleak picture of cybersecurity trends Monday, saying the number of websites hacked rose 32 percent last year, with little relief in sight. “We don’t expect this trend to slow down. As hackers get more aggressive and more sites become outdated, hackers will continue to capitalize by infecting ...
Malaysia intercepted and returned a shipment of North Korean military communications equipment sent to Thailand in 2011, the country’s police chief said on Monday, amid growing scrutiny of the Southeast Asian nation’s dealings with North Korea. The comments come after Malaysia’s foreign ministry this month rejected suggestions it may have ...
Ryobi Holdings Co. is considering launching a luxury cruise ship service that operates in the Kyushu area and Okinawa as early as 2020, the company’s top official said Monday. The cruise ship would be designed by Eiji Mitooka, the industrial designer who also designed the luxury sleeper train Seven Stars, ...
More than 70 percent of major Japanese companies plan to increase hires of new graduates or at least maintain the number of hires in spring next year, a survey showed. The post 70% of Japanese firms positive about hiring next spring: survey appeared first on The Japan Times.
Brazil’s president met Sunday with dozens of ambassadors from countries that import Brazilian meat, seeking to minimize damage from a corruption probe that alleges meatpackers bribed inspectors to keep rotten meat on the market. Speaking at the presidential palace, President Michel Temer told the diplomats that Brazil’s “government wants to ...
The expanding market for lobsters in China is continuing to grow, with the country setting a new record for the value of its imports of the crustaceans from the United States. American lobster was almost unheard of in most of China until 2010, when the value of imports grew 250 ...
A court in northern India has sentenced 13 factory workers to life imprisonment for taking part in violence at the country’s largest automobile factory that led to the death of a manager nearly five years ago. Four other workers were sentenced to five years in prison for the rioting that ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke up for free trade at a major technology fair over the weekend, issuing jabs clearly pointed at an increasingly protectionist United States. Both called for a free trade deal to be reached quickly between Japan and the European Union, in ...
Meetup is taking a leap into the Trump resistance. The New York-based networking site will unveil plans in the coming days to partner with a labor group — under the guidance of a former Hillary Clinton aide — to coordinate protests among more than 120,000 activists already involved with anti-Trump ...
A waiter was fired from a Southern California restaurant after asking customers to prove they had legal residency before serving them. The Los Angeles Times reports Sunday (lat.ms/2nFRuY6 ) that 23-year-old Brenda Carrillo says she and a friend got the question at Saint Marc in Huntington Beach. Carrillo says the ...
The real effective exchange rate of the Korean won has soared most among 27 currencies of the countries in the world with highest trade volume. According to the Bank for International Settlements on March 19, the Korean won's real effective exchange rate as of the end of February this year ...
Treasury Secretary confirms Washington will uphold Group of 20 foreign-exchange markets pledges. The post Mnuchin shares G-20’s view on currency pledges, Aso says appeared first on The Japan Times.
Five major domestic power companies have paid a total of some ¥90 billion in shareholder dividends since raising their electricity rates following the country’s worst nuclear disaster in March 2011, Jiji Press has learned. While the fee hikes lifted their earnings, the five companies have yet to cut their electricity ...