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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Currency traders accustomed to analyzing the Fed’s dot plot and monthly U.S. jobs figures to divine the direction of the dollar are having to learn, or in some cases re-learn, a forgotten skill: how to scrutinize trade data. It has been decades since investors gave significant thought to the data ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s success in avoiding any clash over exchange rates with U.S. President Donald Trump at a summit meeting hasn’t resolved underlying conflict, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. “We continue to think politics will be a main driver for dollar-yen this year,” Tohru Sasaki, head of Japan ...
Boutique advisers specializing in micro mergers and acquisitions for mostly family-run firms are enjoying a boom as the aging, shrinking population puts the squeeze on Japan’s small business landscape. There are no industrywide figures for deals between ¥500 million and ¥1 billion, but boutique advisers say they are benefiting as ...
If you want to understand why Toshiba is about to report a multi-billion dollar writedown on its nuclear reactor business, the story begins and ends with a onetime pipe manufacturer with roots in the swamp country of Louisiana. The post Toshiba’s nuclear reactor mess winds back to a Louisiana swamp appeared ...
The economy expanded at a slightly slower than expected 1.0 percent annual pace in 2016, helped by an uptick in exports. The post Japan’s economy grew 1.0% in 2016 despite slower last quarter appeared first on The Japan Times.
From smartphones, computers, TV sets to car navigation systems, almost every device’s display shape is rectangular. But this stereotype is likely to change soon, as display-makers work to come up with unique designs, such as circular, curved, ultrathin and flexible. Such displays, they say, are expected to be used more ...
The Putney General Store, established in the 1790s, is having a devil of a time staying open in its fourth century. Just don’t call it cursed. Efforts to keep it thriving have been challenged over the past nine years by two fires, one of which was arson; a lapsed lease ...
Opponents of a high-pressure natural gas pipeline expected to be built across the northern half of Ohio are clinging to the wings of a furry flier, the northern long-eared bat, in their efforts to at least delay the $2 billion project. The existence of the threatened species remains one of ...
Stormy Patterson makes a distinction between opinion and action as she surveys each new call to boycott Company A or support Brand B. It’s “silly” to penalize Under Armour over its CEO’s praise of President Donald Trump, she says. Far more important is how a company behaves toward its customers ...
Africa Finance and Investment Forum (AFIF) 2017 will partner with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to train entrepreneurs on preparing business plans.
India’s Hindustan Motors has sold its Ambassador car brand to France’s Peugeot for just $12 million, capping a spectacular downfall for a vehicle once emblematic of the country’s political class. The CK Birla group, the owners of Hindustan Motors, have sold the car brand for 800 million rupees to the ...
When President Donald Trump rages about unfair trading practices, he usually directs his ire at China and Mexico. By comparison, Japan and Germany get off easy. The focus on China is understandable: The U.S. trade deficit in goods with China ($347 billion last year) is five times bigger than any ...
Japan’s foreign-exchange policy did not become a sticking point at Friday’s U.S.-Japan summit, and an encouraged Bank of Japan might keep its aggressive monetary easing program in place as it tries to stoke 2 percent inflation. But concerns are lingering that U.S. President Donald Trump, who is eager to reduce ...
Revisions to the inheritance tax went into effect in 2015, and related statistics for that year were recently made public by the National Tax Agency. The main change had to do with the basic deduction. Before 2015 the deduction equaled ¥50 million plus ¥10 million for each heir. That formulation ...
Small drones coated with horsehair and a sticky gel could one day help pollinate crops and offset the costly loss of bee populations worldwide, researchers in Japan say. The miniature robots, described in the journal Chem, are a long way from being deployed in the field, but researchers say they ...
The dollar jumped above ¥113.80 in Tokyo trading on Friday, lifted by hopes for tax cuts and infrastructure investment by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥113.84-85, up from ¥112.34-36 at the same time Thursday. The euro was at $1.0639-0640, down from ...
TOKYO - Nissan Motor Co posted a weaker-than-expected operating profit for the third quarter on Thursday as higher marketing costs and a stronger yen dampened earnings.
China reported better-than-expected trade data for January as demand picked up both at home and abroad, an encouraging start to 2017 for the world’s largest trading nation even as Asia’s exporters brace for a rise in U.S. protectionism. January exports rose 7.9 percent from a year earlier as global demand ...
President Donald Trump told airline and airport executives Thursday that he is interested in privatizing America’s air traffic control system and improving the nation’s airports and roads, which he called obsolete. Trump also promised to roll back government regulations and said he will announce a plan in the next three ...
Stocks turned sharply higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, after the dollar and U.S. equities soared on hopes for U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic policies. The 225-issue Nikkei average jumped 471.26 points, or 2.49 percent, to end at 19,378.93. On Thursday, the key market gauge lost 99.93 points. The ...
Japan’s exports of agricultural, forestry and fishery products in 2016 grew 0.7 percent from the previous year to ¥750.3 billion, hitting a record high for the fourth straight year, a preliminary government report showed Friday. The growth was attributed to brisk shipments of grapes and beef, according to the report, ...