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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Strong competition and a sluggish property market are set to prompt more large and medium-sized developers to team up with foreign partners, especially from Japan, says property consultancy Colliers International Thailand.
In drafting a joint statement for release after the summit between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday, Washington had urged Tokyo to refer to signing a bilateral free trade agreement, sources close to bilateral ties said Tuesday. As Japan showed reluctance, the joint statement was ...
Following the U.S. Senate’s confirmation of Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary on Monday, Washington and Tokyo are trying to set up a meeting between the new U.S. finance chief and Japan’s Finance Minister Taro Aso on the sidelines of a Group of 20 gathering in Germany scheduled for March 17-18. ...
Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday worldwide sales of its hybrid vehicles totaled 10,048,500 units as of the end of January, surpassing the 10-million-unit mark 20 years since the launch of its first such environmentally friendly vehicle. The Japanese automaker is aiming at achieving cumulative sales of 15 million gasoline-electric hybrids ...
Advertising giant Dentsu Inc. said Tuesday it expects a group net profit of ¥87.2 billion ($768 million) for the year through December, down 2.4 percent from the previous year. The company said the decline is due to mounting costs it has incurred as a result of limiting the workload on ...
Six bidders currently vying to run Church homes for the elderly will have to be reviewed by an Evaluation Committee before being approved, to prevent possible scenarios such as a bidder also seeking to build on Outside Development Zone land or, say, run a gentlemen’s club.In comments to this newspaper, ...
Up, up and away: Dubai hopes to have a passenger-carrying drone regularly buzzing through the skyline of this futuristic city-state in July. The arrival of the Chinese-made Ehang 184 — which has already had its flying debut over Dubai’s iconic, sail-shaped Burj al-Arab skyscraper hotel — comes as the Emirati ...
New Turkish Airlines head Turkish Airlines announced Feb. 1 that Mehmet Akay will be taking over as the new Tokyo branch manager. Akay has experience working as the regional commercial manager in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and the general manager for Southern and Western India. Akay started his career ...
Chief executives of some of America’s largest retailers, including Target Corp. and Best Buy Co. Inc., are headed to Washington this week to make their case that a controversial tax on imports would raise consumer prices and hurt their businesses, according to people familiar with the plan. The group of ...
Toshiba Corp. said Tuesday that Chairman Shigenori Shiga will step down to take responsibility for huge losses linked to its ailing U.S. nuclear power unit. The resignation takes effect Wednesday. The announcement comes after the company asked authorities earlier in the day for a one-month delay in filing its latest ...
The dollar was capped at around ¥113.50 in Tokyo trading late Tuesday, following the resignation of Michael Flynn, one of U.S. President Donald Trump’s closest aides, as his national security adviser. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥113.55-59, compared with ¥113.53-53 at the same time Monday. The euro was ...
After another year of modest expansion, Japan’s export-driven growth may be on shaky ground as uncertainty looms over its trading partners, bolstering the case for measures to improve sluggish demand at home. U.S. President Donald Trump’s protectionist stance on trade and his allegations of currency manipulation are expected to remain ...
Stocks turned sharply lower Tuesday, weighed down by the yen’s rise following the resignation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser. The Nikkei 225 average lost 220.17 points, or 1.13 percent, to finish at 19,238.98. On Monday, the key market gauge rose 80.22 points. The Topix, covering all first-section ...
Sears and Kmart have evicted “a very small number” of Trump-branded items from their online stores, but they haven’t specify how many and are emphasizing that hundreds of products are still available through their third-party online marketplaces. It’s another sign of how companies are trying to tread a careful line, ...
In the 2003 documentary “Living With Michael Jackson,” the late King of Pop was filmed shopping for art and furniture in a Las Vegas store, pointing at things he liked and walking out, leaving his handlers to settle the bill. A startup in Japan is trying to make that retail ...
Verizon, a longtime holdout, has joined other carriers in offering an unlimited data plan. AT&T only lets customers sign up for unlimited plans when they also subscribe to DirecTV, which AT&T owns. But its prices are similar to Verizon’s for a family; Verizon is cheaper for an individual. As recently ...
Two days before South Carolina Boeing employees vote on whether to join a union, workers gathered Monday to hear from union leaders why they should vote to organize in a state where union membership is the lowest in the country. Workers and members of the International Association of Machinists and ...
Struggling electronics maker Sharp Corp. is starting to focus on expanding its business operations, six months after coming under the umbrella of Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. In October-December last year, Sharp posted a group net profit of ¥4.2 billion, returning to the black for the first time since ...
The use of audiobooks is increasing steadily in Japan, providing a boon to the publishing industry, which is facing declining sales of ordinary books. Audiobooks already account for 10 percent of book sales in the United States and Europe. In the U.S., audiobooks, which started as cassette tapes to listen ...
The dollar fell below ¥113.60 in late Tokyo trading Monday, after briefly rising above ¥114 amid a sense of relief over the closely watched summit between the Japanese and U.S. leaders Friday. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥113.53-53, down from ¥113.84-85 at the same time Friday. The euro ...
Stocks gained further ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday, with the closely-watched meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump now out of the way. The 225-issue Nikkei average rose 80.22 points, or 0.41 percent, to close at 19,459.15. On Friday, the key market gauge ...