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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
A former employee of the Japanese unit of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG was found not guilty Thursday of exaggerating advertising claims for the blood pressure-lowering drug Diovan. Besides clearing 66-year-old Nobuo Shirahashi of a violation under a pharmaceutical affairs law that bans fraudulent and exaggerated advertising, the Tokyo District ...
The idea of forming a Japanese-U.S. consortium has been floated to beat possible Chinese, Taiwanese and South Korean bidders in an auction of Toshiba Corp.’s flash memory business, Jiji Press learned on Thursday. The move comes as the Japanese government and industry are eager to maintain the struggling maker’s technologies ...
Canada is bringing in strict measures and fines for recreational users of drones. Transport Minister Marc Garneau on Thursday announced restrictions to curb the number of incidents in which recreational drones have come too close to planes, which has more than tripled since 2014. Recreational drone operators must now mark ...
Google is now directing its review teams to flag content that might come across as upsetting or offensive in search results. The review teams — comprised of contractors known as “quality raters” — already comb through websites and other content to flag questionable items such as pornography. Google added a ...
President Donald Trump is calling for privatizing America’s air traffic control operations in his budget proposal, a top priority of the airline industry. The proposal says spinning off air traffic operations from the Federal Aviation Administration and placing them under an “independent, non-governmental organization” would make the system “more efficient ...
Dallas public safety officials are pressing T-Mobile for solutions following the death of a 6-month-old boy whose baby sitter couldn’t reach 911 operators. The city said in a statement that the 911 call center was jammed with calls Saturday evening because of an ongoing issue with T-Mobile. Dallas television station ...
The dollar briefly plunged below ¥113 in Tokyo trading on Thursday, dampened by less-hawkish-than-expected interest rate projections by the U.S. Federal Reserve. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥113.23-23, down from ¥114.69-69 at the same time Wednesday. The euro was at $1.0725-0725, up from $1.0637-0637, and at ¥121.44-45, down ...
Stocks wiped out earlier losses to finish slightly firmer on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday after closely watched events including the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policy-setting meeting. The 225-issue Nikkei average rose 12.76 points, or 0.07 percent, to close at 19,590.14. On Wednesday, the key market gauge lost 32.12 points. The ...
The Bank of Japan kept its unprecedented monetary easing program unchanged on Thursday, just hours after the Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate, increasing the policy divergence between the two central banks. The BOJ said that it would keep two key rates at current levels and maintain the pace ...
The White House’s fiscal 2018 budget plan for the U.S. Department of Energy includes $120 million to restart licensing for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada, a project stalled for years by lawsuits and local opposition. The move signals that President Donald Trump may consider the site ...
Construction sites in Japan are enjoying a wave of automation amid an increasing shortage of laborers, with the introduction of robots to do heavy lifting and drones that instantly collect aerial data. As the industry ages along with the country’s graying society, construction companies are forced to look for ways ...
The Osaka-based venture behind a smartphone app that allows people to register warranty certificates and order repairs for appliances online has branched out to car and housing information while flagging the future use of artificial intelligence. Warrantee Inc., which has grown to tens of thousands of users since it was launched ...
Toyota announced a £240 million ($293 million) investment in a car assembly plant in central England on Thursday, despite uncertainty over Britain’s looming exit from the European Union. The auto giant said the fresh funds, which will include £21.3 million from the U.K. government, would be used to update its ...
In his presidential campaign last year, U.S. President Donald Trump promised to scrap trade deals that gave unfair advantages to other nations and replace them with new ones that would revitalize the U.S. economy and bring jobs back home. One of the Trump administration’s first major tests of its confrontational ...
Ministers of Japan and 10 other Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement members on Wednesday confirmed the significance of the deal, while expressing concern about rising protectionism around the world. It was the first ministerial meeting among TPP members since U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the TPP ...
Two Russian intelligence agents and two “criminal hackers” were indicted Wednesday over the theft of 500 million Yahoo accounts in one of the largest cyberattacks in history. The indictment unveiled in Washington by the U.S. Justice Department links Russia’s top spy agency, the FSB, to the massive data breach at ...
Russian hackers working with Russian spies didn’t crack Yahoo security all at once. Instead, according to an account offered by U.S. officials, they methodically made their way deeper into Yahoo’s network over the space of months — maybe years. That allowed them to forge technological skeleton keys that would unlock ...
A North Korean hacking group known as Lazarus was likely behind a recent campaign targeting organizations in 31 countries, following high-profile attacks on Bangladesh Bank, Sony and South Korea, cybersecurity firm Symantec Corp. said on Wednesday. Symantec said in a blog post that researchers have uncovered four pieces of digital ...
Toshiba Corp. on Wednesday offered to provide more collateral, including shares of its prized memory chip unit, to its creditor banks, asking them to roll over their loans until the end of April. Toshiba held a meeting with the lenders at its headquarters after the beleaguered technology conglomerate missed a ...
The Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate for the second time in three months and signaled that further hikes this year will be gradual. The move reflects a consistently solid U.S. economy and will likely mean higher rates on some consumer and business loans. The Fed’s key short-term ...
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that the administration will re-examine federal requirements governing the fuel efficiency of cars and trucks, moving forcefully against Obama-era environmental regulations that Trump says are stifling economic growth. Trump was set to reveal his plans during a speech at an automotive testing center near Detroit, ...