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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The Obama administration tried to stop Japan improving ties with Russia and receiving President Vladimir Putin, Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, said on Tuesday. Putin visited Japan in December. Russia and Japan signed numerous economic deals during Putin’s visit but made no big breakthrough on a territorial row that has ...
General Motors will announce a $1 billion investment in its factories that will create or preserve 1,000 jobs, a person briefed on the matter said. The Detroit automaker said it would make the announcement Tuesday morning. The investment is part of the normal process of equipping factories to build new ...
Kimi Takura quit his fast-paced job as a deliveryman when he was 22 after he was hospitalized for a month with exhaustion. Out of work, he sold his much-loved Jaguar car, bought a secondhand bus and started a one-man business catering to Taiwanese tourists. He worked every day he could ...
Logistics and other companies in Japan are increasingly switching from trucks to railways as a means of transporting freight over land, with rival firms even cooperating in some cases. The moves are driven in part by a chronic shortage of truck drivers. The Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry is ...
I am, therefore I’m paid. The radical notion that governments should hand out free money to everyone — rich and poor, those who work and those who don’t — is slowly but surely gaining ground in Europe. Yes, you read that right: a guaranteed monthly living allowance, no strings attached. ...
When Xi Jinping addresses business elites at Davos, the Chinese president will find himself an unlikely champion of the trade-based global order Donald Trump has derided. His new role could prove to be one of his biggest tests. On Tuesday, Xi will become the first Chinese head of state to ...
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 ...
Portugal has accused Spain of stockpiling nuclear waste close to its border without evaluating the environmental impact, in a complaint filed Monday with Brussels. The dispute stems from the Spanish government’s decision in late December to authorize the building of a nuclear waste depot at the Almaraz plant in central-west ...
A group of global investment banks has revised their 2017 economic growth forecast for Korea downward. Japan's Nomura Securities issued a pessimistic outlook, saying that Korea's economic growth rate for 2017 would remain low at 2.0 percent. According to industry sources on January 15, the world's ten major investment banks, ...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is holding out hope that incoming U.S. President Donald Trump will reconsider the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that would be a major boost to the export-driven Southeast Asian nation. Recent comments made by officials who are set to take senior roles in Trump’s ...
Wholesale prices in 2016 fell 3.4 percent to log their second consecutive annual decline as the yen advanced and crude oil prices sank on the back of slowdowns in China and other emerging economies, the Bank of Japan said Monday. The data cast a pall over the outlook for the ...
Energy developer Inpex Corp. said Monday it has reached an agreement in principle with Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) to extend the development of two oil fields off Abu Dhabi. The development of the Satah and Umma Al Dalkh fields, which together produce about 35,000 barrels of oil per ...
The International Monetary Fund said Monday that Japan’s economy is expected to grow 0.8 percent this year, up 0.2 percentage point from its estimate in October, mostly on account of a stronger-than-expected performance during the latter part of last year. The IMF also raised upward its forecast for U.S. economic ...
The government will start preparations to sell an additional parcel of Japan Post Holdings Co. shares, with the transaction expected to take place in July or later. The post Government gearing up to sell another tranche of Japan Post shares appeared first on The Japan Times.
The dollar slid to levels around ¥114 in Tokyo trading on Monday, with the Japanese currency attracting risk-averse purchases amid fresh concerns over Britain’s upcoming exit from the European Union. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥114.06-06, down from ¥114.70-70 the same time Friday. The euro was at $1.0612-0613, ...
Stocks turned lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday, weighed down by the yen’s ascent. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 192.04 points, or 1.00 percent, to close at 19,095.24. On Friday, the key market gauge gained 152.58 points. The Topix index of all first-section issues finished down 14.25 points, ...
The Bank of Japan on Monday lifted its economic assessment of three of the country’s nine regions, citing a pickup in consumer spending. “The effects of the decline in stock prices after early 2016 and of the irregular weather seen that summer has waned,” the central bank said in its ...
Seasonally adjusted core machinery orders fell 5.1 percent in November to log the first decline in two months, the Cabinet Office said Monday. Private-sector orders, excluding those for ships and power equipment, are closely watched as a leading indicator of corporate capital spending and totaled ¥833.7 billion in November. While ...
Japan's space agency on Sunday failed to send a satellite into orbit aboard an experimental mini-rocket due to communication failure.
Japan's space agency said on Sunday it failed to launch a mini rocket carrying a satellite into space due to failure of the communications systems.
The waste from discarded electronic gadgets and electrical appliances has reached severe levels in East Asia, posing a growing threat to health and the environment unless safe disposal becomes the norm. China was the biggest culprit with its electronic waste more than doubling, according to a new study by the ...