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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
A visiting Japanese business delegation proposed policy measures to address major challenges impeding Japanese investment into Myanmar in a meeting Friday with the country’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi, state media reported Saturday. During the meeting in the capital Naypyitaw, the delegation of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, ...
The number of foreign workers in Japan surpassed one million for the first time last year, as the labour-strapped country struggles to find enough Japanese workers.
The government is considering the possibility of launching bilateral auto trade negotiations with the United States as the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is seen urging Japan to begin talks on a bilateral trade pact, sources have said. Ahead of the first summit between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and ...
Toshiba Corp.’s chairman, Shigenori Shiga, plans to resign over the expected massive write-down in the company’s U.S. nuclear business, sources said Saturday. Shiga once served as president of the U.S. nuclear unit, Westinghouse Electric Co., which Toshiba has said could face a multibillion-dollar loss due to cost overruns from delays ...
The U.S. economy entered 2017 with a solid head of steam, driven by consumer spending and a pickup in business investment. President Donald Trump could add to that momentum — or kill it, if trade tensions keep flaring. Fourth-quarter figures released Friday showed how swings in trade can have big ...
ANA Holdings Inc., owner of Japan’s biggest airline, said it’s concerned the policies of U.S. President Donald Trump may slow global growth, which in turn affects airline passenger traffic. “We have to consider the effect on logistics and movements if trade frictions arise as in the past,” Yuji Hirako, an ...
Friday Olokor, Abuja Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has commenced discussions with the Japanese government to drive investments in agriculture, transportation, solid minerals and youth empowerment in vocational and technological services. The governor at a meeting in Abuja with the First Secretary, Economic Development and Cooperation, Embassy of Japan ...
The House of Representatives on Friday approved another supplementary budget for fiscal 2016 ending March that will provide ¥622.5 billion ($5.4 billion) for disaster relief and defense projects. The third supplementary budget for fiscal 2016 includes ¥195.5 billion for areas like Hokkaido and Tohoku that were hit by typhoons and ...
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said Friday that it will recall or embark on improvement steps for 608,183 minivehicles spanning four models in Japan plagued by engine defects and other problems. The vehicles, including the eK Wagon and eK Space, were manufactured between April 2013 and April last year. The other two ...
The Consumer Affairs Agency has ordered Mitsubishi Motors Corp. to pay a fine of around ¥485 million ($4.2 million) for making false claims in sales literature about the fuel efficiency of its cars, it was announced Friday. The order was the first of its kind under a legal revision that ...
The six-foot-six referee with distinctive looks is mostly remembered by football fans worldwide as the most respected and authoritative football referee of all time. His authority as the man in the middle of the pitch of play placed him as the most consistent referee of all times. The former financial ...
The United States will include a clause preventing currency manipulation in all future bilateral trade deals, President Donald Trump said Thursday, as he criticized the Trans-Pacific Partnership economic pact for not prohibiting the practice. “We’re going to have very, very strong controls over monetary manipulation and devaluation, which they didn’t ...
The dollar hit one-week highs above ¥115 in Tokyo on Friday on the back of an increase in the Bank of Japan’s outright buying of outstanding Japanese government bonds from the money market. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥115.21-22, up from ¥113.76-77 at the same time Thursday. The ...
Tokyo Gas Co. President Michiaki Hirose has shown his eagerness to lead moves to reorganize Japan’s liquefied natural gas industry. “There should be at least two Japanese companies (in the industry) that can compete internationally,” Hirose said in a recent interview. “Tokyo Gas will take the central role in forming ...
Japanese officials said Friday they will pay close attention to how emerging trade tensions between the Trump administration and Mexico could affect Japanese firms, including major automakers that trade heavily across the border. “Japanese companies have based parts of their supply chains in Mexico, so we want to watch closely ...
The benchmark Nikkei index on the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose for the third straight day on Friday, following the U.S. Dow Jones industrial average’s continued record-breaking advance the previous day. The 225-issue Nikkei average rose 65.01 points, or 0.34 percent, to end at 19,467.40. On Thursday, the key market gauge ...
Tapping Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda for another term early next year is an option because of the need for seamless policy continuity, an economic adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said. “Kuroda is doing a terrific job,” Etsuro Honda, one of the architects of Abenomics, said in ...
As it faces massive write-downs in its nuclear power plant business, Toshiba Corp. said Friday that it will spin off its cash-cow chip business at the end of March. Toshiba will sell a stake of less than 20 percent in its flash memory operation to generate several hundred billion yen ...
The White House on Thursday floated the idea of a 20 percent tax on Mexican imports to pay for Donald Trump’s border wall, before quickly backtracking and calling it just one idea among many. Trump has vowed to “make Mexico pay” for the wall — something Mexico has strongly rejected ...
Japan on Friday logged its first annual consumer price decline in four years, underscoring the challenges facing Tokyo’s fight to rid the world’s No. 3 economy of deflation. Government data showed prices dropped 0.3 percent in 2016 from a year earlier, as weak household spending and meager wage hikes keep ...
Struggling Japanese electronics and machinery maker Toshiba Corp. will ask creditor financial institutions to continue loans to the company in March and later, Jiji Press learned Thursday. The company is expected to make the request at a meeting with the creditors on Feb. 15, sources said. Most of the institutions, ...