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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Analysts estimate that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games will have a positive economic impact of some ¥20 trillion. But for small and midsize companies, which make up 99.7 percent of businesses in Japan, an up to 20-month closure of parts of the nation’s biggest convention center to make ...
The Japan Racing Association has barred Dentsu Inc. from bidding for its projects because the ad agency has been accused of forcing two employees to work illegally long hours. The one-month suspension was imposed on Dec. 29, the day after Dentsu was referred to the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor’s Office ...
Mizuho Financial Group Inc. and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. are discussing integrating their asset management banking businesses, sources said Wednesday. The integration across their traditional keiretsu groupings is aimed at boosting the scale of the business to curb costs and implement streamlining at a time when the Bank of ...
Some 6,659 businesses across Japan violated labor laws between April and September last year and were ordered to correct illegal practices, the labor ministry said Tuesday. The ministry’s labor standards supervision offices inspected more than 10,000 businesses suspected of forcing employees to work excessively long hours. In April last year, ...
The year 2017 started with a significant level of uncertainties in global politics and economies — certainly true for the world economies over the last decade since the global financial crisis in 2007 — after the surprising outcome of the U.S. presidential election in November. With only three days left ...
Davos participants again this year will have a chance to taste and experience the finest the world of Japanese gastronomy has to offer at the Central Sporthotel Davos on Jan. 18. One of the most-popular events during the World Economic Forum meeting, Japan Night will be hosted by The Japan ...
Recently, “Team Japan” scored quite a few points in leading the world in the promotion of sports and culture to achieve economic prosperity and world peace. The central and local governments, as well as the public sector, worked together in October to bring success to the World Forum on Sport ...
Gender equality is one of the areas that the World Economic Forum strongly emphasizes as the organization, which has been publishing the annual Global Gender Gap Report since 2006, believes that half of the world’s talent — women — should be better integrated into the workforce to boost the world ...
Global events in 2016 have reminded decision-makers that the more complex a system, the greater a community’s concern about its future. The weakening of multiple systems has eroded confidence at the national, regional and global levels. And, in the absence of innovative and credible steps toward their renewal, the likelihood ...
The origin of Japan’s ruling class extends into the mists of ancient history, far before the country was unified after a period of civil wars and well into the first millennium A.D. Warriors, called bushi, began as the armies of aristocratic factions centered around the Imperial court in Kyoto, but ...
Japan had its first World Heritage sites registered in 1993 when UNESCO registered Buddhist monuments in the Horyuji Temple area, Himeji Castle, Yakushima Island and the Shirakami-Sanchi beech tree forest. Since then the country has added more sites and now boasts the 20 shown above. Natural World Heritage sites show ...
On a Sunday afternoon in 2035, a man in Tokyo is consulting a robot as to what he should eat for dinner. “It seems that you have a heavy feeling in your stomach today; I suggest fish and vegetables,” the robot said, based on the man’s health data retrieved automatically ...
The world in 2016 saw many events signaling the rise of protectionism and populism, ranging from Brexit to Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election and people’s fear of job loss due to immigrants and artificial intelligence (AI) development. An executive of the Geneva-based World Economic Forum, which hosts ...
Saitama City, a major bedroom community of Tokyo, is home to many leading technology companies that Japan can be proud to showcase to the world. That Saitama is such a hotbed of technology is lost on most people because many of the companies are manufacturers of components and materials, rather ...
Women accounted for 3.4 percent of the executives at Japanese listed firms in 2016, far lower than the 30 percent target set by the government, a Cabinet Office survey showed Monday. However, the share rose 0.6 percentage point from the previous year to a record high, according to the survey ...
The dollar dropped below ¥113.30 in late Tokyo trading on Tuesday amid a growing sense of caution among investors ahead of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s speech, in which she is expected to reveal plans for her country’s “hard” exit from the European Union. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood ...
The benchmark Nikkei average on the Tokyo Stock Exchange lost further ground to finish below 19,000 for the first time since Dec. 9 last year on Tuesday, with a wide range of issues coming under selling in the face of the yen’s continued appreciation. The 225-issue Nikkei tumbled 281.71 points, ...
On-time awards for JAL Japan Airlines (JAL) was awarded the On-time Performance Services Award by FlightStats, Inc., an independent aviation performance tracking company, coming in first in both the “mainline” and “network” categories under Asia-Pacific Major Airlines. Network is defined as a system of flights that are marketed by a ...
Commercial property prices in Tokyo, a bellwether for the market, look to have peaked as the capital faces a glut of new offices even as the number of workers is set to decline. The property market had rebounded in the past three years as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic policies ...
Vietnam is courting high-tech Japanese investment and wants Tokyo to become its top investor, its premier said Tuesday during a visit by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Japan is the second-largest foreign investor in Vietnam, a manufacturing hub in Southeast Asia seeking to expand exports from apparel and agriculture to high-value ...
Nexen Tire Corp. has agreed with Toyota Tsusho Corp., a trading arm of Japan's Toyota Group, to establish a joint venture in Japan. The Korean tire supplier said on January 16 that it held a launching ceremony for the joint venture at the trading company's Tokyo office in Roppongi. The ...