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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
President Donald Trump has inherited a healthy-looking job market from his predecessor, with the economy registering a burst of hiring in January and an influx of Americans looking for work. U.S. employers added 227,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday. That was the biggest gain since September and ...
Heavy equipment manufacturer Kubota Corp. has opened an import and sales facility in Myanmar, vowing to support its growing farm machinery market and expand dealer networks by providing access to quality products. Located in the Japanese government-backed Thilawa Special Economic Zone on the outskirts of Myanmar’s commercial capital, Yangon, Kubota’s ...
Japanese government bonds swung and the yen fell as the central bank moved to reassert control over surging yields, while money market rates rose in China after officials boosted their target for a key benchmark. Japanese 10-year yields briefly erased gains and the yen dropped after the Bank of Japan ...
For seven years, the United States has fought to keep the eurozone intact, urging European officials toward action and supporting international bailout programs to keep the 17-nation currency union from cracking apart. That appears to have changed less than two weeks into Donald Trump’s new administration. A sharp shift in ...
Toyota Motor chief Akio Toyoda consults Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ahead of Abe’s summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, who has been critical of Japanese trade practices. The post Abe, Toyoda compare notes over dinner ahead of Trump summit appeared first on The Japan Times.
The dollar rose above ¥113 in Tokyo trading on Friday, as long-term Japanese government bond yields fell back on the Bank of Japan’s special JGB-buying operation. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥113.11-12, up from ¥112.84-85 at the same time Thursday. The euro was at $1.0756-0757, down from $1.0792-0792, ...
Sharp Corp. narrowed its full-year loss outlook after posting its first quarterly profit in more than two years, lifted by cost reductions and a turnaround in the display business. The net loss will reach ¥37.2 billion ($329 million) in the year ending March 31, the Osaka-based company reported Friday. That’s ...
Tokyo-based Honda Motor Co. reported Friday a 36 percent jump in profit for October-December on year, shrugging off damage from a strong yen. The automaker also raised its full year forecast. Cost cuts lifted fiscal third quarter profit to ¥168.8 billion ($1.5 billion), up from ¥124.1 billion the previous year. ...
Nintendo Co. found out with its first smartphone game it’s tough to get people to pay $10 even if the draw is Super Mario. With its second mobile title, the Japanese powerhouse is taking a different approach that is potentially more lucrative — and much more controversial. “Fire Emblem,” available ...
Stocks closed slightly higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, thanks to a pause in the yen’s strengthening against the dollar. The 225-issue Nikkei average gained 3.62 points, or 0.02 percent, to end at 18,918.20. On Thursday, the key market gauge fell 233.50 points. The Topix index of all first-section ...
Source: UN Security Council Country: Ukraine, WorldThe recent dangerous uptick in fighting seen in eastern Ukraine has left hundreds of thousands of civilians at risk of losing all access to water, heat and electricity, the Security Council heard on 2 February.SC/12704 SECURITY COUNCIL 7876TH MEETING (PM) Members hear from political, humanitarian affairs chiefs, head ...
The Trump administration on Thursday revised recent U.S. sanctions that prevented American companies from exporting some electronic equipment to Russia. It also modified penalties on Iran, expanding a list of medical equipment that needs federal authorization to be sold to Iranian customers. The Treasury Department says U.S. companies can apply ...
If the United States imposes a border tax on Mexican imports, it’s not just tequila, beer and avocados that would jump in price. Mexico is the world’s leading exporter of refrigerators and flat-screen TVs. Cars and trucks such as the Ram 1500 crew cab, Ford Fiesta and Chevrolet Trax fill ...
Hundreds of ethnic Yemenis have shuttered their small businesses in New York City in protest of President Donald Trump’s travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries. They include Manhattan deli owner Haron Zokari (ah-ROHN’ zoh-KAHR-ee’), who says his wife and baby are stuck in Yemen after almost completing a ...
Panasonic Corp. President Kazuhiro Tsuga has instructed his employees in Japan to limit their overtime work to 80 hours or less per month, sources said Thursday. The employees, totaling some 100,000, have also been instructed to leave work by 8 p.m., according to the sources. The instruction, issued Tuesday, is ...
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. on Thursday announced a leadership change in a bid to speed up its regional jet development that has been delayed repeatedly. President Hiromichi Morimoto, 62, will retire on March 31 and be replaced by Hisakazu Mizutani, executive vice president of the parent company, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. ...
Dentsu Inc. will carry out sweeping work environment reforms by 2018 after the overwork-induced suicide of an employee in 2015, the major Japanese advertising agency’s new president, Toshihiro Yamamoto, has said. “It is my mission to complete the reforms in two years,” Yamamoto said in his first interview since he ...
Panasonic Corp. said Thursday it has raised its full-year group earnings forecasts for the current business year through March, citing a weaker-than-expected yen. The Japanese electronics maker is now expecting a group net profit of ¥130 billion ($1.1 billion) in fiscal 2016, compared with its earlier estimate of ¥120 billion. ...
Japanese electronics and entertainment company Sony Corp. reported Thursday an 84 percent profit drop in October-December, as losses in its movie division offset healthy results in its video game business. Tokyo-based Sony, which makes the PlayStation 4 game machine and Bravia TVs, reported a fiscal third quarter profit of ¥19.6 ...
Finnish network equipment maker Nokia reported its quarterly profits fell less than expected, helped by cost cuts and the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent, and said the tough global market was starting to stabilise. Nokia and its rivals, Sweden's Ericsson and China's Huawei, have struggled lately as telecom operators' demand for faster 4G ...
A Japanese professor was among four researchers Wednesday to receive the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for his contribution to the development of digital imaging sensors. Nobukazu Teranishi, professor at Shizuoka University and the University of Hyogo, shares the £1 million prize with Eric Fossum and George Smith from the ...