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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The dollar cut its early loss to move slightly above ¥113 in late Tokyo trading on Monday, while its topside was capped due to a dearth of fresh buying incentives. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥113.14-15, down from ¥113.42-42 at the same time Friday. The euro was at ...
Stocks turned slightly higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday as the yen lost some of its early strength. The 225-issue Nikkei average gained 16.46 points, or 0.09 percent, to close at 19,251.08. On Friday, the key market gauge lost 112.91 points. The Topix index of all first-section issues ...
The risk of running out of rare earth metals that are essential to modern technology has led to a surge in interest in mining the deep seas. But fears have also mounted about the environmental impact of disturbing vast areas of the pristine ocean floor, experts at the American Association ...
Sagawa Express Co. is aiming to go public on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange this year and has started holding talks with major brokerages, sources close to the matter said Monday. Using the capital it will obtain through the listing, Japan’s major parcel delivery company hopes to ...
A New Zealand judge on Monday upheld an earlier court ruling that flamboyant internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom and three of his colleagues can be extradited to the U.S. to face criminal charges. The decision comes five years after U.S. authorities shut down Dotcom’s file-sharing website Megaupload and filed charges of ...
The number of new condominiums put up for sale across Japan in 2016 dropped 1.4 percent from the preceding year to a 24-year low of 76,993 units, while prices stayed high, according to a private think tank. Supply dropped for the third straight year, the Real Estate Economic Institute said ...
The real effective exchange rate of the won that takes into account domestic prices and trade volume has hit a record high since the 2007 global financial crisis. The rate of increase in the won's value for the past one year is higher than that for major economies such as ...
Japan's exports rose in January at a slower pace than the previous month due to a decline in shipments to the U.S. and the Lunar New Year holidays.
(Teleborsa) - Negativi i conti con l'estero del Giappone, con le importazioni in forte aumento. Secondo il Ministero delle Finanze del Giappone (MOF), la bilancia commerciale, nel mese di gennaio...
Tourists are slowly returning to Egypt, easing pressure on a key sector battered by years of turmoil and the 2015 bombing of a plane carrying Russian holidaymakers. “There is an increase in the number of tourists. This situation was much better in January than in previous years,” tourism ministry spokeswoman ...
Japan posted its first goods trade deficit in five months in January, logging red ink of ¥1.09 trillion ($9.7 billion), as imports increased more than exports on rising commodity prices, the government said Monday. Imports marked their first gain in 25 months, up 8.5 percent from a year earlier to ...
Growing optimism about the next iPhone has propelled Apple Inc. to record highs. Halfway around the globe, a lesser-known Taiwanese company is riding that same wave of euphoria. Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the main assembler of the U.S. company’s smartphones, has gained 29 percent in the past year, with ...
Within hours of being sworn in, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s counterparts from Tokyo to Berlin started telegraphing warnings to him: Please don’t call the yen weak. Be careful how you talk about cutting financial regulations — Europe is listening. As President Donald Trump waited a few weeks for the ...
A telephone owned by Adolf Hitler has sold at auction for $243,000. Andreas Kornfeld of Alexander Historical Auctions says the phone sold Sunday afternoon to a person who bid by phone. The auction house does not disclose the names of buyers. Bidding for the phone started at $100,000. The red ...
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. and Chubu Electric Power Co. are considering integrating their thermal power generation business in fiscal 2018, a report said Monday. Tepco, an embattled utility facing the gigantic cost of dealing with the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 plant, and Chubu Electric may ...
The government has drawn up a bill to limit use of the new private lodgings, known as minpaku, to 180 days a year. The post State drafts ‘minpaku’ bill to cap lodging rentals at 180 days per year appeared first on The Japan Times.
Toshiba Corp. wants to sell its chip business in a deal where the potential buyer will retain all the workers currently employed, sources close to the matter said Friday. The stance is intended to allay concerns both inside and outside the troubled company about the possibility of major job cuts ...
Presidents since Franklin Delano Roosevelt have loved to tour Boeing factories. The lessons they draw from their time on the factory floor — and the inevitable photo opportunity beside shiny new airplanes — can differ wildly. President Donald Trump on Friday touted the latest Boeing 787 Dreamliner as proof of ...
An unmanned SpaceX spaceship carrying food and equipment to the International Space Station was poised to blast off from a historic NASA launchpad on Saturday. The launch of the Dragon cargo ship was scheduled for 10:01 a.m. from Cape Canaveral’s launchpad 39A, which was built and used for the U.S. ...
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Friday that he and European Union Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom had confirmed their resolve to swiftly conclude free trade negotiations between the two economies. “We reaffirmed that it is extremely important (to reach) a broad agreement … as soon as possible in order to counter ...
Malaysia performed a second autopsy on the estranged half brother of North Korea's leader because the first procedure was inconclusive, piling on the intrigue surrounding what appeared to be a well-executed assassination at an airport in Kuala Lumpur, an official said Saturday. Police arrested a fourth suspect, identified as a ...