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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Japan’s “sharing economy” all but caught fire in 2016, inspired by a growing global trend. Overseas giants such as Airbnb Inc. and Uber technologies Inc. have rapidly spread, and some major cities such as Seoul and Amsterdam promote themselves as sharing cities. In Japan, the private and public sectors have ...
(Teleborsa) - La deflazione continua a preoccupare il Giappone e riflette ancora lo stato fragile dell'economia nipponica. Secondo l'Ufficio nazionale di statistica, nel mese di novembre, l'indice...
No, Britney Spears is not dead. Yet her fans’ hearts may have skipped a beat today when tweets purportedly from Sony Music Entertainment said “RIP @britneyspears #RIPBritney 1981-2016” and “Britney spears is dead by accident! We will tell you more soon #RIPBritney.” The real Sony Music Entertainment quickly deleted those ...
JIJI Tepco Energy Partner Inc. will start selling gas to households next July in response to the full liberalization of the gas retail market coming in April. Tepco Energy Partner, a unit of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., also said Monday it has concluded a basic wholesale agreement to ...
Stocks moved on a weak note in thin trading Monday, with foreign investors, major players on the market, absent due to the Christmas holidays. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 31.03 points, or 0.16 percent, to close at 19,396.64 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. On Thursday, the key market gauge shed ...
The dollar fluctuated tightly at levels around ¥117 in Tokyo Monday as trading remained thin during Christmas holidays abroad. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥117.16-18, down from ¥117.66-67 the same time Thursday. The euro was at $1.0458-0459, up from $1.0437-0437, and at ¥122.53-55, down from ¥122.80-82. The Tokyo ...
The Bank of Japan, which has given up on achieving its 2 percent inflation goal by printing more money, is expected to fret over the fate of the “Trump rally” in 2017. If U.S. Treasury yields continue to rise and the dollar extends gains against the yen, the BOJ might ...
A patch of land in the shadow of Mount Fuji is becoming a testing ground for energy storage, with some of Japan’s leading companies trying to develop technologies such as spinning flywheels and fuel cells. The Yamanashi Prefectural Government is hoping that by attracting companies such as Panasonic Corp. and ...
For hundreds of protesters, it was cause to cheer when the Obama administration this month declined to issue an easement for the Dakota Access pipeline’s final segment. But that elation was dampened by the uncertainty of what comes next: a Donald Trump-led White House that might be far less attuned ...
The Mitsubishi Regional Jet is facing yet another delay and is unlikely to meet its mid-2018 delivery date target, the president of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said in a recent interview. “We are not yet in a situation where we can achieve” the delivery date, MHI President Shunichi Miyanaga said ...
Budget carrier Vanilla Air has launched regular flights from Narita airport to Mactan-Cebu International Airport in the Philippines. The unit of ANA holdings Inc. is the first domestic carrier to offer a regular daily round trip between Narita and the resort island of Cebu. As more and more Japanese are ...
Toyota Motor Corp.’s Sienta has won two of Indonesia’s top industry awards for 2016, a half year after its launch in the nation, where Toyota commands more than a third of the market. Sienta won the Best of the Best Car and Best Compact MPV prices in an annual Indonesian ...
ALGIERS- Algeria and Japan, which will celebrate in 2017 the 55th anniversary of the establishment of their diplomatic relations, are working to further boost their bilateral relations, Japan's Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Motome Takisawa said Sunday in Algiers. "Algeria and Japan are working to further step up bilateral ...
The government is aiming to toughen penalties for automakers that make false reports about fuel economy data, including a drastic increase in fines, following false reporting by Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and Suzuki Motor Corp., a government source said Sunday. As one measure to crack down on such illegal activity, the ...
Electronic spies come in all shapes and sizes, but none is as funny looking as an oyster impersonator called the Flex Spy now infiltrating the waters off western France. Looking for all the world like the bivalves it is protecting, the plastic imposter is fitted with a circuit board that ...
Major auto parts maker Denso Corp. will team up with NEC Corp. on developing self-driving automobile technology that makes use of artificial intelligence, sources at the two companies said. With NEC boasting expertise in developing artificial intelligence and software, Denso plans to use its information technology expertise to accelerate research ...
Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem on Saturday said Greece had cleared up doubts and could expect a positive decision on debt relief, defusing a row over surprise handouts announced by Athens. “Happy to conclude that we have cleared the way for ESM to go ahead with decision-making procedures for short term ...
Iran’s official IRNA news agency is reporting the deputy transport minister as saying that his county will only pay half of the announced price for 80 new Boeing planes, given the reductions in its purchasing options. According to the Sunday report, Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan says that despite an initial $16.8 ...
Major Japanese auto parts maker Denso Corp. will team up with NEC Corp. in developing self-driving automobile technology that makes use of artificial intelligence, sources at the two companies said Saturday. With NEC boasting expertise in developing artificial intelligence and software, Denso plans to use the company’s information technology to ...
In its zeal to ramrod some bills into law before the New Years holiday, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party finally legalized casino gambling, a matter that has been in legislative limbo for a number of years. However, the problems that always prevented the bills from advancing in the past have ...
The FBI is investigating how hackers infiltrated computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. for several years beginning in 2010 in a breach senior FDIC officials believe was sponsored by China’s military, people with knowledge of the matter said. The security breach, in which hackers gained access to dozens of ...