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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Japanese companies should consider ways to raise employee pay on an annual basis in this year’s shunto spring labor-management wage talks, Yasumi Kudo, vice chairman of the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, said. “It’s natural for companies with strong earnings to conduct wage hikes, mainly in the form of monthly ...
Toyota Motor Corp. is aiming to boost its new vehicle sales in Thailand by 8 percent this year by introducing new models on the back of the recovering local auto market. The leading Japanese automaker’s Thai arm, Toyota Motor Thailand Co., announced Tuesday that the country’s total auto sales in ...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday lambasted Japan and China for devaluing their currencies, a clear signal of his belief that the two countries are currency manipulators. “You look at what China’s doing, you look at what Japan has done over the years. They play the money market, they play ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will propose a package of measures to create jobs in the United States through various investment projects when he meets with U.S. President Donald Trump on Feb. 10, Japanese government sources said Tuesday. Abe will pitch Japanese companies’ cooperation in such projects as high-speed rail construction ...
San Francisco is girding for a legal showdown over one of its most beloved and now shuttering institutions: a baseball memorabilia bar in tourist-heavy Union Square named for legendary hitter and city son Lefty O’Doul. The rambunctious piano and sports bar has catered to tourists and locals for decades, its ...
Washington Days before a group of Republican lawmakers were due to discuss their party’s controversial proposal to tax all imports, Toyota Motor Corp. sent an urgent message to its U.S. dealers — tell the politicians the tax would seriously hurt car buyers. Some of Toyota’s 1,500 dealers heeded the call ...
Cleanup of a North Dakota encampment where opponents of the Dakota Access oil pipeline stayed for months to protest the $3.8 billion project is expected to take weeks, a leader of the tribe that organized the protest said Tuesday. The Standing Rock Sioux hopes to complete the work before any ...
Toyota Australia has announced that it will end vehicle production at its Altona plant near Melbourne in early October, more than halving its local workforce. Toyota said in 2014 it would end production in Australia this year but had not set a closure date for the factory that has operated ...
The United States on Monday completed its withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal by officially notifying the 11 other member states. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative sent letters of intent to Japan and other TPP members, with President Donald Trump apparently eager to seek talks with Tokyo ...
The Diet has enacted an extra budget worth ¥622.5 billion for fiscal 2016 through March to provide disaster relief and increase defense spending. The third supplementary budget for the current fiscal year includes ¥195.5 billion for areas hit by powerful typhoons and earthquakes in 2016 and ¥170.6 billion to bolster ...
Japan Airlines Co. said its net profit dropped in the nine months to December due to a slump in income from international flights, but the carrier left its full-year forecast unchanged. JAL posted a net profit of ¥108.3 billion, down 24.6 percent from the same period the year before. Revenue ...
Canon Inc. views it as difficult to invest in Toshiba Corp.’s flash memory business because the company already has a number of investment projects going on and sees little time left to assess its property, Canon Chief Financial Officer Toshizo Tanaka said Tuesday. Speaking at a news conference to report ...
Nintendo Co.’s third-quarter profit more than doubled from a year earlier on healthy sales of Pokemon game software, the company said Tuesday. Nintendo, which makes Super Mario games and will start selling the Switch console March 3, reported a better-than-expected October-December profit of ¥64.7 billion ($569 million), up from ¥29.1 ...
The Bank of Japan hiked its economic growth forecasts on Tuesday, citing an improved global outlook and a weaker yen, but the country’s finance chief warned of “uncertainty” caused by the arrival of Donald Trump in the White House. After its first meeting of the year, the BOJ also held ...
CEOs of some of the world’s biggest companies are fighting back against President Donald Trump’s temporary immigration ban, calling it un-American and bad for business. The heads of Apple, Ford and Goldman Sachs said they don’t support the executive order the president signed last week, which bans immigrants from seven ...
The dollar tumbled to levels around ¥113.50 in Tokyo trading late Tuesday amid spreading international uproar over U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration ban. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥113.52-53, down from ¥114.70-71 at the same time Monday. The euro was unchanged at $1.0699-0700, while plunging to ¥121.46-47 from ...
Industrial output rose 0.5 percent in December from November, lifted by robust production growth in transport equipment, government data showed Tuesday amid hopes for continued recovery. The government maintained its basic assessment, saying industrial production shows signs of improving. The index of output at factories and mines stood at 100.4 ...
General Motors and Honda take a big step toward putting out vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells. The post GM, Honda plan venture to develop advanced hydrogen fuel cells appeared first on The Japan Times.
Sony Corp. said it will take a ¥112 billion ($1 billion) writedown in its movie business after reviewing the future profitability of its operations. The company said it would book the charge in the fiscal third quarter and is examining how that will affect its forecasts. To offset part of ...
Stocks plunged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Tuesday, weighed down by the yen’s ascent and weaker U.S. equities on worries about confusion over U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration policy. The 225-issue Nikkei average tumbled 327.51 points, or 1.69 percent, to finish at 19,041.34, the day’s low. On Monday, the key ...
Struggling electronics and machinery giant Toshiba Corp. is considering selling U.S. subsidiary Westinghouse Electric Co. as one of its options in an ongoing review of its overseas nuclear operations, sources have said. Toshiba is expected to suffer a loss of up to ¥680 billion from its U.S. nuclear plant business. ...