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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
U.S. president-elect’s protectionist threats put big business on back foot. The post ‘Trump shock’ after Toyota tweet reverberates as Japan business community reacts with concern appeared first on The Japan Times.
As traditional commercial fishing is threatening fish populations worldwide, U.S. officials are working on a plan to expand fish farming into federal waters around the Pacific Ocean. The government sees the move toward aquaculture as a promising solution to feeding a hungry planet. But some environmentalists say the industrial-scale farms ...
The Japanese government said on January 6 that it would postpone talks on the currency swap deal between Japan and Korea in response to a civic group's installation of a statue in front of the Japanese Consulate in Busan, commemorating "comfort women" who were forced into sex slavery for Japanese ...
Asahi Kasei Corp. is thinking of expanding its bases in the United States rather than starting up operations in Mexico, President Hideki Kobori says. “We’re considering expanding into Mexico, but depending on the course of events, expanding U.S. bases may be a better idea,” Kobori said in a recent interview. ...
Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Development Co. is considering committing $10 billion to $15 billion to partner with SoftBank Group Corp. and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund in a new vehicle to invest in global technology, according to people familiar with the matter. The SoftBank Vision Fund is set to close in ...
Cuba announced a landmark deal on Thursday to sell charcoal to a U.S. company, the first legal Cuban export to the United States in five decades, as part of the fragile rapprochement between the former Cold War foes. The sale of 40 tons of charcoal derived from the woody plant ...
The dollar bounced back to levels moderately above ¥116 in Tokyo trading on Friday, with traders bracing for the release later in the day of key U.S. jobs data for December. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥116.28-28, up from ¥115.95-95 at the same time on Thursday. The euro ...
The benchmark Nikkei average fell further on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, weighed down by selling from investors worried about the yen’s appreciation against the dollar. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 66.36 points, or 0.34 percent, to end at 19,454.33. On Thursday, the key market gauge shed 73.47 points. The ...
While traditional investment wisdom holds that the market will be volatile in 2017, Tokyo stocks will likely continue the current “Trump rally” this year, although at a mild pace, supported by a weaker yen and solid corporate earnings. The course of the stock market in the Chinese zodiac Year of ...
Japan’s price-adjusted real wage index dropped 0.2 percent in November from a year earlier, falling for the first time in 11 months, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said Friday. The decline came as the pace of price increases surpassed growth in wages. Prices apparently rose due to a ...
Norway is set to become the first nation to start switching off its FM radio network next week in a risky and unpopular leap to digital technology that will be closely watched by other countries considering whether to follow suit. Critics say the government is rushing the move and many ...
Federal officials withdrew a proposed requirement for companies to clean up groundwater at uranium mines across the U.S. and will reconsider a rule that congressional Republicans criticized as too harsh on industry. The plan that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency put on hold Wednesday involves in-situ mining, in which water ...
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission told French nuclear power company Areva SA it will publish as early as next week the names of U.S. reactors that contain components from its Le Creusot forge that the firm is suspected of falsifying documents despite the company’s claim that the information is proprietary. ...
South Korea’s Finance Ministry said Friday it regrets Japan’s decision to suspend bilateral talks on a currency swap dea
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday targeted Toyota Motor Corp., threatening to impose a hefty fee on the Japanese automaker it if builds its Corolla cars for the U.S. market at a plant in Mexico. “Toyota Motor said will build a new plant in Baja, Mexico, to build Corolla cars ...
Nissan is halting joint development of luxury cars with Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz, sources close to the companies told Reuters, suspending a key project in their seven-year partnership and potentially hitting profitability at a new shared factory in Mexico. Nissan decided in October its premium Infiniti brand would not use MFA2, an ...
Il Giappone è un Paese culturalmente molto diverso dall'Italia che è riuscito, nonostante il rallentamento dell'economia e grazie ad una solida collaborazione fra sistema bancario e politico, a rimanere protagonista dell’innovazione sui mercati mondiali. Nella nostra intervista con Aristide Martellini, Direttore di ICE Tokyo, abbiamo parlato delle opportunità per le ...
Source: Munich Re Country: China, Haiti, Japan, WorldThe losses totalled US$175 billion, two-thirds more than in the previous year. The share of uninsured losses remained substantial at around 70 per cent.A number of devastating earthquakes and powerful storms made 2016 the costliest twelve months for natural catastrophe losses in the last ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urged business leaders Thursday to push for fundamental reform of working conditions to limit long working hours and promote equal treatment of workers regardless of their employment status. “This year will be the year to implement bold working style reforms,” Abe said at a New Year’s ...
The dollar took a dive below ¥116 in Tokyo trading on Thursday, hit hard by position-adjustment selling ahead of Friday’s release of key U.S. jobs data for December. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥115.95-95, down from ¥117.98-99 at the same time on Wednesday. The euro was at $1.0559-0559, ...
Tesla Motors Inc. said Wednesday that mass production of lithium-ion battery cells along with Panasonic Corp. has begun at a plant being jointly built by the two companies outside Reno, Nevada. The Gigafactory is expected to be a major foothold for Panasonic to expand production of battery cells for electric ...