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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Oil could be flowing through the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline in less than two weeks, according to court documents filed by the developer just before police and soldiers started clearing a protest camp in North Dakota where pipeline opponents had gathered for the better part of a year. Energy ...
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Cameroon, Chad, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Republic of Korea, Sweden, SwitzerlandHumanitarian partners agreed to further scale up their response to reach the most vulnerable groups threatened by famine, including children with severe acute ...
China for the first time became Germany’s most important trading partner in 2016, overtaking the United States, which fell back to third place behind France, data showed on Friday. German imports from and exports to China rose to €170 billion ($180 billion) last year, Federal Statistics Office figures reviewed by ...
The dollar dropped below ¥113 in Tokyo trading on Friday, coming under selling pressure after U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin reportedly warned against a strong dollar. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥112.71-72, down from ¥113.23-24 at the same time Thursday. The euro was at $1.0597-0597, up from $1.0552-0552, ...
Stocks retreated further on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, dragged down by the yen’s rise after comments from U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin were taken as a warning against a higher dollar. The 225-issue Nikkei average shed 87.92 points, or 0.45 percent, to finish at 19,283.54, extending its losing streak ...
Toshiba Corp. will explore Chapter 11 bankruptcy for U.S. nuclear power unit Westinghouse Electric Co. among options to rebuild the business while using proceeds from the sale of its mainstay chip business to continue operating it, sources close to the matter said Friday. Toshiba said earlier this week it expects ...
ANA Holdings Inc. has decided to bring low-cost carrier affiliate Peach Aviation Ltd. under its wing by raising its stake in the company from about 39 percent, a sources close to the matter said Friday. ANA, parent of All Nippon Airways, plans to spend about ¥30 billion (about $266 million) ...
Major parcel delivery firm Yamato Transport Co. plans to limit the amount of packages it handles following a request from its labor union, according to informed sources. The move comes as the company, a unit of Yamato Holdings Co., aims to curb the long hours being worked by delivery vehicle ...
Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan) Inc. and major trading house Mitsui & Co. said on Thursday they will integrate their animation program broadcasting business. Through the integration, the Sony Corp. group company and Mitsui will aim to win program orders from television networks and strengthen their business base ahead of the ...
James Murren, visiting chairman and chief executive officer of major U.S. casino operator MGM Resorts International, says his company may consider investing $10 billion in integrated resort operations in Japan. Japan’s integrated resort market could be “much bigger than Las Vegas,” Murren said on Thursday. Murren said MGM Resorts hoped ...
Nissan Motor Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Carlos Ghosn decided to switch his focus to managing the company’s alliance with Renault SA and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. as political challenges mount in the U.S. and European markets. Ghosn, also serving as chairman and CEO of Renault and chairman of Mitsubishi ...
Evidence is mounting that Tokyo’s housing boom is nearing an end. In the Kachidoki area facing Tokyo Bay, home to the city’s hottest market given its proximity to venues for the 2020 Olympic Games, real estate broker Hayato Jo has a wall full of notices of apartments for sale, with ...
The amount of credit card purchases made by foreigners in Korea was 13.7 trillion won, up 32 percent from the previous year. The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and the Korea Culture and Tourism Institute published a report "2016 Foreign Credit Card Spending Analysis" on February 23.By individual country ...
A new initiative to promote a better work-life balance has been introduced in Japan, meaning it was not business as usual for some employees on Friday. As the clock reached 3pm, about 100 office workers raised champagne glasses in a cafe in the middle of Tokyo's central business district to toast ...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions signaled Thursday his strong support for the federal government’s continued use of private prisons, reversing an Obama administration directive to phase out their use. Stock prices of major private prison companies rose at the news. Sessions issued a memo replacing one issued last August by Sally ...
President Donald Trump brought two dozen manufacturing CEOs to the White House on Thursday and declared their collective commitment to restoring factory jobs lost to foreign competition. Yet some of the CEOs suggested that there were still plenty of openings for U.S. factory jobs but too few qualified people to ...
Strolling a tree-lined Shanghai street with friends, Hu Dongyuan pulls out her smartphone and does what millions of Chinese women do daily: take a selfie, digitally “beautify” their faces, and pop it on social media. Such virtual make-overs, typically involving lightening skin, smoothing out complexions and rounding the eyes, have ...
The dollar drifted on a slightly weaker note in a narrow range around ¥113.20 in Tokyo on Thursday. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥113.23-24, down from ¥113.39-40 at the same time Wednesday. The euro was at $1.0552-0552, up from $1.0507-0507, and at ¥119.49-51, up from ¥119.15-17. The greenback ...
Stocks lost ground, albeit moderately, on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday, hit by selling reflecting the yen’s firmness. The 225-issue Nikkei average fell 8.41 points, or 0.04 percent, to close at 19,371.46, down for two days in a row. On Wednesday, the key market gauge edged down 1.57 points. ...
The government Thursday retained its assessment that the economy is recovering moderately but downgraded its view on private consumption for the first time in 11 months. The monthly economic assessment for February said that sluggish consumer spending remains one of the major bottlenecks for growth as the Cabinet Office upgraded ...
Hitachi Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. may put off the proposed integration of their nuclear fuel operations, which was expected as early as this spring, sources said Thursday. Discussions have not progressed as planned on which operational facilities the three companies should scrap and integrate, the sources ...