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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Stocks fell back on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday, dragged down by the yen’s rise. The 225-issue Nikkei average shed 90.45 points, or 0.47 percent, to close at 19,347.53. On Wednesday, the key market gauge gained 199.00 points. The Topix index of all first-section issues finished down 2.62 points, or ...
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said Thursday low profitability at financial institutions could sow the seeds of a new financial crisis, offering his strongest warning to date of the demerits of aggressive monetary easing pursued by major central banks. Mergers and consolidation may be among options for financial institutions ...
Japan’s attempts to revive anemic consumer spending through unconventional monetary policy have created new problems for the central bank in its daily dealings with financial markets, as rising global yields muddle its efforts to manage local rates. Introduced in September last year, the Bank of Japan’s yield curve control program ...
Toshiba decides against selling stakes in its chip business for the time being, making it certain the ailing conglomerate will have a negative net worth by the year’s end. The post Toshiba won’t sell chip business before end of fiscal year, source says appeared first on The Japan Times.
Firms offering posture-promoting chairs are becoming increasingly popular in Japan as employers seek to address neck, shoulder and back problems experienced by staff working long hours. In January, major French cheese-maker Bel Japon K.K. introduced new chairs at its office in Tokyo for workers who have to sit at their ...
Something high-tech is happening in the produce aisle at some Swedish supermarkets, where laser marks have replaced labels on the organic avocados and sweet potatoes. Swedish supermarket chain ICA started experimenting in December with “natural branding,” a process that uses low-energy carbon dioxide lasers to remove the pigment from the ...
Hanjin Shipping will declare bankruptcy Friday, with the former titan of the global shipping industry and one of South Korea’s powerful family-run “chaebol” finally sinking under billions of dollars of debt. As it heads to a Seoul court to be delivered its last rites, the firm is bereft of assets ...
President Donald Trump’s two sons in charge of his global business empire will attend a closed-door event this coming weekend to mark the opening of the Trump International Golf Club in Dubai, organizers said Wednesday. The ceremony in the Mideast city-state home to the world’s tallest building marks the first ...
A top executive at the company building the controversial Dakota Access pipeline is comparing pipeline opponents to terrorists. Joey Mahmoud, executive vice president of Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners, says protesters have “assaulted numerous pipeline personnel,” destroyed millions of dollars’ worth of construction equipment and even fired a pistol at law ...
Yahoo is warning users of potentially malicious activity on their accounts between 2015 and 2016, the latest development in the internet company’s investigation of a mega-breach that exposed 1 billion users’ data several years ago. Yahoo confirmed Wednesday that it was notifying users that their accounts had potentially been compromised ...
Annual spring wage negotiations between companies and labor unions got into full swing Wednesday with unions from Japan’s major automakers demanding the same base wage increase as last year despite concerns about the industry’s earnings prospects. The unions of Toyota Motor Corp. and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., among other major ...
Sony Corp. said Wednesday it has delayed the sale of its battery business to electronic parts maker Murata Manufacturing Co. scheduled for early April by three months to early July, due apparently to an ongoing assessment of the deal by overseas competition watchdogs. The Japanese electronics giant said it is ...
The astonishing assassination of North Korea leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother rippled across Asia on Wednesday as Malaysian investigators scoured airport surveillance video for clues about the two female assailants and rival South Korea offered up a single, shaky motive: paranoia.Kim Jong Nam, 46, was targeted Monday in a shopping ...
There’s a Trump toilet, a Trump condom, a Trump pacemaker and even a Trump International Hotel among hundreds of trademarks in China that don’t belong to Donald Trump. But after a decade of grinding battle in China’s courts, the president was expected to get an unlikely win this week: the ...
A joint venture of a Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. unit and Chubu Electric Power Co. will tap into the renewable energy business in India on the back of high economic growth and increasing electricity demand. In a deal announced Tuesday, Jera Co. will acquire a 10 percent stake ...
SoftBank Group Corp. is buying alternative-asset manager Fortress Investment Group LLC for $3.3 billion in cash to operate alongside the company’s soon-to-be-established technology investment fund. SoftBank will pay $8.08 a share for New York-based Fortress, a 39 percent premium to the company’s Feb. 13 closing price, according to a statement ...
The dollar climbed to levels around ¥114.50 in Tokyo trading Wednesday after U.S. Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen suggested overnight that the central bank is open to an interest rate hike as early as next month. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥114.47-51, up from ¥113.55-59 at the same ...
Another scandal, revealed by a whistleblower, has hit already-embattled Toshiba Corp., further eroding the market credibility of its corporate governance. At noon Tuesday, the 140-year-old company, which has been working to put an accounting scandal behind it, missed a deadline to release an earnings report for the April to December ...
Stocks staged a sharp rebound on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday, boosted by the yen’s drop and strengthening U.S. equities overnight. The 225-issue Nikkei average gained 199.00 points, or 1.03 percent, to end at 19,437.98. On Tuesday, the key market gauge lost 220.17 points. The Topix index of all first-section ...
Toyota Motor Corp. said on Wednesday it was recalling all of the roughly 2,800 zero-emission Mirai cars on the road due to problems with the output voltage generated by their fuel cell system. Toyota said that under unique driving conditions, such as if the accelerator pedal is depressed to the ...
Advertising giant Dentsu Inc. will set up an independent committee to oversee working environment reforms in the wake of public uproar sparked by the death of a young employee who committed suicide due to overwork. The independent committee, announced Tuesday, will comprise a former labor ministry official and two lawyers ...