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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The Bank of Japan is caught in a quandary: to let bond yields rise or not. Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda wants to make longer-maturity debt more attractive by letting yields move higher, yet doing so will put pressure on his efforts to keep 10-year borrowing costs close to zero. He will ...
At a circular booth in the middle of the Trump International Hotel’s balcony restaurant, President Donald Trump dined on his steak — well-done, with ketchup — while chatting with British Brexit politician Nigel Farage. A few days later, major Republican donors Doug Deason and Doug Manchester, in town for the ...
Imagine what it’s like to lie on a bed in a floating capsule and look into the stars while it drifts to a desert island overnight. That’s the experience a major theme park in Nagasaki Prefecture plans to offer by the end of this year. Huis Ten Bosch, a Dutch-themed ...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s protectionist stance may propel Asian, Middle Eastern and Latin American economic powers into market-opening alliances with the European Union, a top EU official said. Jyrki Katainen, a vice president of the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said Trump’s rejection of multilateral commercial deals and a ...
Hiroshi Onishi plans to step down as president and chief executive officer of leading department store operator Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd. at the end of this month, informed sources said on Monday. Onishi, 61, intends to take responsibility for the recent poor performance of the company, the sources said. Isetan ...
Nearly eight out of every 10 South Korean businesses in Japan expect their annual sales to increase this year, a survey
China’s top economic official trimmed its growth target and warned Sunday of dangers from global pressure for trade controls as Beijing tries to build a consumer-driven economy and reduce reliance on exports and investment. In a speech to the national legislature, Premier Li Keqiang promised more steps to cut surplus ...
Parcel firm Yamato Transport agrees to retroactively pay out unpaid overtime to personnel swamped by the surge in delivery attempts caused by online shopping. The post Yamato to cough up unpaid overtime appeared first on The Japan Times.
Bake sales and car washes? Not for one Silicon Valley parochial high school that hit it big this past week and, by doing so, highlighted anew gaping economic disparities in the region. St. Francis High School in Mountain View parlayed a $15,000 investment in the company that developed the Snapchat ...
The U.S. Federal Reserve’s long-stalled “liftoff” of interest rates may finally get airborne this year as policymakers from Chair Janet Yellen on Friday to regional leaders across the United States signaled that the era of easy money is drawing to a close. Yellen capped off a seemingly coordinated push from ...
Only 3.7 percent of Tokyo area employees left work early last month to mark the launch of the “Premium Friday” quit work early campaign on Feb. 24, an online survey says. The public-private initiative is designed to prod people to leave the office at 3 p.m. on the last Friday ...
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. and Chubu Electric Power Co. have decided to fully integrate their thermal power operations in two or three years, sources said Friday. The operations, which account for half of Japan’s total thermal power capacity, will be brought under Jera Co., a thermal power and ...
The United Auto Workers union charged Thursday that Nissan Motor Co. broke federal labor law in Mississippi, two days before a rally in the state at which Sen. Bernie Sanders plans to speak in favor of unionization. The UAW said a company security guard wrongfully stopped workers from handing out ...
If Britain leaves the European Union without sealing an exit deal, it will not be legally obliged to contribute to the bloc’s budget, a committee of members of Britain’s upper house of parliament said on Saturday. Money is likely to be one of the most contentious elements of the upcoming ...
Source: International Organization for Migration Country: MaliIOM is calling on all groups in Mali to help foster a stability and peace to avoid further displacement and encourage the return home of those still displaced.Mali - Internal displacement in Mali can be resolved by the end of 2017, but only if there ...
Negotiators from 16 nations accounting for half the world’s population inched closer to drafting a multilateral trade treaty after five days of negotiations that went late into Friday evening. But disagreements over issues ranging from how to handle intellectual property rights to tariff reductions continue to divide developed and lesser-developed ...
The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) said Friday it posted a record investment profit of ¥10.50 trillion in the October-December period, boosted by a rally in stocks at home and abroad after Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election. The world’s largest pension fund, GPIF logged the biggest investment ...
The dollar moved narrowly in Tokyo trading Friday ahead of speeches by U.S. Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen and Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer later in the day. The dollar stood at ¥114.26-26 at 5 p.m., up from ¥114.18-19 at the same time Thursday. The euro was at $1.0520-0521, down from ...
Stocks turned lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday, weighed down by profit-taking. The 225-issue Nikkei average shed 95.63 points, or 0.49 percent, to end at 19,469.17. On Thursday, the key market gauge jumped 171.26 points. The Topix index of all first-section issues closed down 6.64 points, or 0.42 ...
“Terrorism, migration, climate change, protectionism, and a feeling of mistrust between the people and their national governments or EU institutions are the biggest challenges the EU is facing” European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström told the audience at a student debate which took place in the Arts Lecture Theatre at ...
A senior Senate Democrat is asking the U.S. Treasury Department to evaluate whether President Donald Trump and his family’s business associates and possible investors from Russia and other countries have violated U.S. laws against financing terrorism, money laundering and other illicit activities. Trump’s refusal to jettison or disclose investments that ...