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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
SoftBank Group Corp. is aiming to close the first round of investment in its planned $100 billion technology fund by the end of this month, giving Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son an enormous war chest to go on the hunt for deals, according to people familiar with the matter. The ...
Elon Musk may think hydrogen-powered vehicles are rubbish, but Toyota Motor Corp. and a cadre of Japan’s leading manufacturers are betting otherwise — and not just on cars. With the blessing of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Toyota is at the forefront of Japan’s efforts to use hydrogen and fuel cells ...
Nitori Holdings Co. is considering buying an apparel chain in Japan, a move that will pit the furniture seller against rivals including Fast Retailing Co., Asia’s largest clothier. The home furnishing retailer will look for a company with 100 to 200 stores as cash from operations has been increasing by ...
Hogwash. Hot air. That’s what Willem Buiter, chief economist at Citigroup Inc., makes of the Trump administration’s comments on exchange rates. The world’s largest foreign-exchange trading firm sees the dollar rising this year even as the president talks the greenback down and blasts some of the nation’s biggest trading partners ...
When Samsung Electronics remotely disabled the last of its flawed Galaxy Note 7 smartphones last month, it further blurred the lines between who ultimately controls your phone, computer, car or appliance — you, or the companies that make it work? Industry executives and analysts say companies are exerting greater remote ...
U.S. President Donald Trump plans to announce the most ambitious tax reform plan since the Reagan era in the next few weeks, the White House said on Thursday, sending stock prices and the dollar higher on hopes for a cut in corporate tax rates. In a White House meeting with ...
A judge refused the U.S. government’s request to throw out a lawsuit from Microsoft that claims a federal law is unconstitutional because it prohibits technology companies from telling customers when the government demands their electronic data. U.S. District Judge James Robart, who temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s travel ban last ...
The U.S. Postal Service said Thursday it lost $200 million during the year-end holiday season, despite a strong quarter of package shipping and expanded use of vote-by-mail in the November presidential election. The results also reflect continued erosion in the delivery of first-class mail as well as expensive mandates for ...
L.L. Bean is moving to cut costs by freezing pensions and offering voluntary early retirements, and company officials say they are taking a hard look at its generous shipping and return policies. The Freeport-based outdoors retailer will freeze its defined-benefit pension plan and boost its 401(k) savings contributions to all ...
Just three weeks into his administration, President Donald Trump and his allies are moving quickly to dismantle the web of regulations the government passed after the 2008 financial crisis to tighten oversight of banks and protect consumers and taxpayers. Trump has branded the 2010 Dodd-Frank law — which imposed many ...
A top White House aide on Thursday promoted the clothing line named after President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, drawing criticism from ethics experts one day after the president attacked a retailer for dropping her products. “Go buy Ivanka’s stuff … I’m going to go get some myself today,” Trump senior ...
Construction of the final segment of the Dakota Access pipeline has begun, and the full system should be operational within three months, the developer of the long-delayed project said Thursday, even as an American Indian tribe filed a legal challenge to block the work and protect its water supply. The ...
President Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan will meet in Washington, and they’ll probably broach trade and defense ties, targets of critical Twitter posts by Mr. Trump.
Carlsberg A/S, the Danish beer-maker, is weighing the purchase of a 20 percent stake in China’s Tsingtao Brewery Co., people familiar with the matter said. The Copenhagen-based company is working with an adviser on a potential bid for the Tsingtao stake being sold by Asahi Group Holdings Ltd., said the ...
Nissan said Thursday it is pressing ahead with plans for a new plant in Mexico despite U.S. President Donald Trump rapping rival Toyota over plans to build a factory in the Latin American country. Nissan and Daimler broke ground in 2015 on the facility in Aguascalientes, saying they would invest ...
The Bank of Japan will maintain its current aggressive monetary easing to achieve a 2 percent inflation goal, a deputy governor said Thursday, despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s criticism of Tokyo guiding the yen lower. Hiroshi Nakaso apparently tried to fend off Trump’s claim ahead of Friday’s U.S.-Japan summit in ...
McDonald’s Holdings Co. (Japan) on Thursday reported a ¥5.37 billion ($48 million) group net profit for 2016, returning to profitability after years of slumping sales triggered by food safety scandals. The profit is a sharp turnaround from its ¥34.95 billion net loss last year, its biggest since becoming a publicly ...
Takata Corp. said Thursday it plans to book charges of ¥107.5 billion ($958 million) for the period from April to December due to the replacement of faulty air bags and a major U.S. fine. The manufacturer said it will book an extraordinary loss of ¥96.93 billion after agreeing to pay ...
Japan’s seasonally adjusted core machinery orders in December rose by 6.7 percent from the previous month, the Cabinet Office said Thursday. Private-sector orders excluding those for ships and power equipment, closely watched as a leading indicator of corporate capital spending, totaled ¥889.8 billion. In November, the core orders fell 5.1 ...
The dollar was almost flat around ¥112.30 in Tokyo trading late Thursday, with a wait-and-see mood growing ahead of the upcoming summit between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥112.34-36, against ¥112.35-35 at the same time Wednesday. The euro was ...
Stocks turned lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday, hurt by a rise in the yen against the dollar. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 99.93 points, or 0.53 percent, to end at 18,907.67. On Wednesday, the key market gauge gained 96.82 points. The Topix index of all first-section issues closed ...