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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
Dear Kenyans, Speakers of Both Houses of Parliament, Honourable Members, Today, we celebrate an extraordinary Kenyan journey: four years of transformation, of growth, and the deepening our democracy. I want to salute and congratulate each and every Kenyan today for staying true to our solemn duty to protect, preserve and ...
First it was Japan’s steel makers, now it’s the nation’s power producers that are set to pay for China’s coal policies. Japanese utilities may pay at least 29 percent more for annual supplies this year after China’s efforts in 2016 to trim overcapacity led to a more than doubling of ...
China’s Anbang Insurance Group said it is not investing in a flagship Manhattan office tower owned by the family of Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser. Anbang was named in a Bloomberg report on Monday as a possible investor in a $4 billion deal to buy ...
With rider numbers plunging 30 percent over the last decade, Tokyo taxi operators are hopeful that a lower base fare established in late January will attract foreign visitors and shore up the industry. But some drivers see pitfalls in the new system, and critics note that longer rides will actually ...
Ministers and officials representing the 12 countries of the failed Trans-Pacific Partnership, plus China and South Korea, began talks toward a new pact in Chile on Tuesday, but any decision on how it might look seemed far off. The TPP, which would have included about 40 percent of the world’s ...
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy and Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC said that they have agreed to collaborate in the development of an advanced small modular reactor. GE Hitachi and ARC Nuclear hope that a small reactor that can be built at lower costs will meet replacement demand for aging reactors, they ...
The operator of Disney theme parks in Japan and its labor union said Wednesday they have agreed that about 20,000 nonregular workers can join the union in a joint effort to improve working conditions and secure manpower. Show performers, attraction facility staff and part-time workers at Tokyo Disneyland will become ...
Major travel agency H.I.S. Co. on Wednesday celebrated the opening of its second robot-staffed Henn na Hotel. The new location is near the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture. The name is a play on a Japanese word meaning strange. It is the company’s first opening of a hotel ...
The dollar fell back below ¥115 in Tokyo trading on Wednesday, as market activity was quiet ahead of key events including a U.S. monetary policy decision. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥114.69-69, down from ¥115.15-16 at the same time Tuesday. The euro was at $1.0637-0637, against $1.0638-0639, and ...
SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman Masayoshi Son promised Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud Salman that the telecom conglomerate will help Saudi Arabia prosper through investment. Speaking to reporters after their meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday, Son quoted the king as telling him he was greatly looking forward to the investment ...
Stocks lost further ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday, weighed down by sluggish overseas equities overnight. The 225-issue Nikkei average retreated 32.12 points, or 0.16 percent, to close at 19,577.38. On Tuesday, the key market gauge lost 24.25 points. The Topix index of all first-section issues ended down 3.59 ...
Major firms offered the lowest base-pay hike in four years, a setback for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s campaign dubbed “Abenomics” to spur the long-sluggish economy. The post Workers at top companies get meager 2017 pay hikes in Abenomics setback appeared first on The Japan Times.
As deaths from painkillers and heroin abuse spiked and street crimes increased, the mayor of Everett took major steps to tackle the opioid epidemic devastating this working-class city north of Seattle. Mayor Ray Stephanson stepped up patrols, hired social workers to ride with officers and pushed for more permanent housing ...
The Trump administration is delaying a new rule tightening safety requirements for companies that store large quantities of dangerous chemicals. The rule was imposed after a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, exploded in 2013, killing 15 people. Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, delayed the effective date of ...
Tuesday the United States will push for further opening of Japan’s agricultural market in envisaged bilateral trade negotiations with the country. “I would list, of course, Japan as being a primary target for a place where increased access for agriculture is important,” Robert Lighthizer said during his Senate confirmation hearing. ...
Goodyear has let the helium out of the last of its fabled fleet of blimps, but the company’s flight program will continue. About two dozen employees were on hand early Tuesday to witness the deflation of California-based Spirit of Innovation. But shed no tears, blimp fans, you’ll still see a ...
The New York attorney general says that while Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was CEO of Exxon he used an alias in emails to talk about climate change. The attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, made the accusation in a letter to a New York court Monday. He is investigating whether the ...
The U.S. government has revoked the tax-exempt status of a group run by prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer for its failure to file tax returns. Internal Revenue Service records show Spencer’s National Policy Institute automatically lost its tax-exempt status as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit after failing to file tax returns for ...
Japanese companies are buying up businesses abroad as the population and spending shrivel at home, but past deals show a costly tendency to overpay.
If Toshiba Corp. parts ways with its embattled U.S. nuclear unit, Westinghouse Electric Co., the likely buyer may be a regional neighbor with global ambitions. Westinghouse would be a strategic fit in China or South Korea, which are developing their own reactors for export, according to analysts and academics. The ...
Japan Exchange Group Inc. and the Saudi Stock Exchange agreed Tuesday to seek broad cooperation in areas such as cross-listing of shares and development of financial products. The bourses signed a memorandum of understanding as King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia is visiting Japan with a huge delegation. ...