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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Even before George Jetson entranced kids with his cartoon flying car, people dreamed of soaring above traffic congestion. Inventors and entrepreneurs have long tried and failed to make the dream a reality, but that may be changing. Nearly a dozen companies around the globe, including some with deep pockets such ...
(Teleborsa) - L'attività industriale giapponese è attesa in crescita nel mese di dicembre. Secondo la stima preliminare del Ministero del Commercio Internazionale e dell'Industria...
(Teleborsa) - Nessuna sorpresa dalla Bank of Japan che ha lasciato lo "status quo" sui tassi d'interesse. La mossa attendista è volta a capire meglio le intenzioni dell'amministrazione...
The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry said on January 31 that the nation's December industrial output has increased 0.5 percent year on year. The month's unemployment rate was also at a record low in 21 years. The economic output data is higher than the consensus figure of 0.3 ...
The leaders of the only private university in North Korea asked Texas A&M University, known for its agricultural economics and public health programs, for help on Monday in teaching subjects such as how to grow food in a land of chronic shortages. The Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) ...
Techies have devised a program to execute quickfire stock trades to take advantage of President Donald Trump’s Twitter habit of blackballing individual companies. And the president’s tweets are saving puppies, since when the program earns money, the funds are donated to an animal welfare group. The “Trump & Dump” artificial ...
Major world equity markets fell on Monday and the dollar slipped against the safe-haven yen after new U.S. immigration curbs stirred concerns about the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies on global trade and the economy. Stocks fell about 1 percent each on Wall Street and in Europe after ...
The transport ministry said Monday it will introduce safety standards for self-driving vehicles in Japan as early as this fall, including an alarm system that sounds 15 seconds after a driver takes his hands off the steering wheel while traveling on a highway. The introduction of the integrated standards is ...
Sony Corp. said it will book a write-down of ¥112.1 billion over losses related to its movie operations amid the anticipated shrinking of the DVD and Blu-ray Disc market. The electronics giant had forecast a ¥270 billion group operating profit and a ¥60 billion net profit for fiscal 2016 ending ...
FRANKFURT/TOKYO - Toyota Motor Corp lost its title as the world’s best-selling automaker to Volkswagen AG, snapping the Japanese company’s four-year reign, as demand for its flagship Camry sedan waned in the US and sales in China expanded at a slower pace than the overall market.
Toyota Motor Corp. has lost its crown as the world’s best-selling automaker to Volkswagen AG, ending a four-year reign that saw emerging challenges ranging from the threat of U.S. trade barriers to slowing demand in China after a tax increase. Worldwide sales for Toyota, including its units Hino Motors Ltd. ...
When the Nine Mile Point reactor first went online, Richard Nixon was president, the Beatles were still a band and Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima weren’t yet bywords for the hazards of nuclear power. Almost 50 years later, New York state is betting big on the future of Nine ...
Stocks snapped a three-session winning streak Monday after coming under pressure from the yen’s rise against the dollar. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 98.55 points, or 0.51 percent, to end at 19,368.85 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. On Friday, the key market gauge rose 65.01 points. The Topix index of ...
The dollar fell below ¥115 in Tokyo trading on Monday as investors grew risk-averse amid confusion over U.S. President Donald Trump’s order to temporarily block visitors from certain Muslim-majority nations. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥114.70-71, down from ¥115.21-22 the same time Friday. The euro was at $1.0699-0700, ...
The Bank of Japan is becoming increasingly wary of tweets by U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of its first policy meeting since he took office, fearing his remarks could thwart its long-shot efforts to achieve 2 percent inflation and end decades of deflation. Fears are growing among officials at the ...
Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corp. and an affiliated trust bank plan to sue scandal-ridden Toshiba Corp. for ¥1 billion over losses incurred from a major accounting scandal that sent its share price plummeting, a source close to the matter said Monday. The potential lawsuit comes as Toshiba scrambles to ...
Starbucks says it will hire 10,000 refugees over the next five years, a response to President Donald Trump’s indefinite suspension of Syrian refugees and temporary travel bans that apply to six other Muslim-majority nations. Howard Schultz, the coffee retailer’s chairman and CEO, said in a letter to employees Sunday that ...
At least 1,200 men in ceremonial attire danced at a mainly Zulu gathering in South Africa on Sunday, wearing a mix of hides of illegally hunted leopards and Chinese-made, spotted capes designed by conservationists to reduce demand for the real thing. The phalanxes of dancers with shields, headgear of ostrich ...
Japan’s goal to restore its fiscal health is still far off amid prospects for tepid economic growth and swelling spending on health, pensions and defense. The post 2020 goal for fixing Japan’s finances a tall order appeared first on The Japan Times.
More than a month after Russia announced one of its biggest privatizations since the 1990s, selling a 19.5 percent stake in its giant oil company Rosneft, it still isn’t possible to determine from public records the full identities of those who bought it. The stake was sold for €10.2 billion ...
Retailers have a new strategy to win over tourists in Japan during the Lunar New Year holidays: provide them with a positive shopping experiences rather than just focusing on selling them goods. With the waning of bakugai (explosive buying) by Chinese visitors, their strong purchasing potential is still a strong ...