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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Open up the guts of the U.S. government — something President-elect Donald Trump hinted he will do — and what do you see? A sprawling tangle of information technology services contracted out to private companies working on everything from Obamacare to immigration, air force bases and intelligence gathering. A look ...
France on Thursday inaugurated the world’s first “solar highway,” a road paved with solar panels providing enough energy to power the street lights of the small Normandy town of Tourouvre. The 1-km-long (half-mile-long) “Wattway” covered with 2,800 sq. meters (30,000 sq. feet) of resin-coated solar panels was hooked up to ...
China may adjust its investment in US Treasuries while reductions in Treasury holdings is a tactical move, foreign exchange regulatory official Li Hongyan told reporters yesterday. China needs to take ‘counter-cyclical’ steps to control large capital outflows, said Wang Chunying, spokeswoman for the State Administration of Foreign Exchange. China’s outbound direct investment ...
New Mexico regulators have approved restarting normal operations at the nation’s only underground nuclear waste repository, a major step for U.S. officials aiming to reopen the facility nearly three years after a radiation leak shut it down indefinitely. Two letters obtained Thursday by The Associated Press outline the state Environment ...
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn targeted environmental and banking regulations on Thursday as big drags on U.S. corporate investment and said revamping them would be a priority in his role as adviser to President-elect Donald Trump. Icahn, tapped by Trump on Wednesday as a special adviser for regulatory reform, also said ...
President-elect Donald Trump upended years of Pentagon procurement planning with a tweet on Thursday, announcing he had asked Boeing Co. to price an upgrade of its F-18 Super Hornet jet that could replace Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35, the most expensive U.S. weapon system ever. “Based on the tremendous cost and ...
The popular mobile game “Pokemon Go” is now available on the Apple Watch, squashing rumors that the game’s maker was scrapping such plans. The game involves catching digital pocket monsters in an augmented-reality version of your surroundings. The Apple Watch version will let you discover nearby Pokemon and collect special ...
The dollar edged up to levels around ¥117.70 in Tokyo trading on Thursday, ahead of the Christmas weekend, with the Tokyo market to be closed for three days from Friday. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥117.66-67, up from ¥117.59-59 at the same time on Wednesday. The euro was ...
Stocks lost further ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday, pushed down by position-adjustment selling prior to the three-day weekend from Friday. The 225-issue Nikkei average shed 16.82 points, or 0.09 percent, to end at 19,427.67. On Wednesday, the key market gauge fell 50.04 points. The Topix index of all ...
As Japan takes on the elusive challenge of fiscal reconstruction, slowing tax revenue growth is casting a shadow over the future of the aging country. That bodes ill for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has touted recent growth in tax income since taking office in 2012 as one of the ...
Honda Motor Co. said Wednesday it is talking to Waymo, the autonomous driving unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc., to try to strike a deal that would put its self-driving technology into some of the Japanese automaker’s cars. Both companies stressed that at this point the talks are about research, ...
A Yemeni-American YouTube star from New York, Adam Saleh, called for a boycott of Delta Airlines after charging he was removed from one of its flights on Wednesday for speaking Arabic. Delta said he was asked to leave the London to New York flight on Wednesday morning following an unspecified ...
Winter bonuses at Japanese companies employing more than 500 people averaged ¥880,736 ($7,500), up 0.02 percent from the previous year and rising for the fourth straight year, the country’s major business lobby said Wednesday. Winter bonuses at Japanese manufacturers averaged ¥900,490, up 0.47 percent and topping the ¥900,000 line for ...
Yoichi Morishita, former president of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., now Panasonic Corp., died of liver failure at a hospital in Osaka on Sunday. He was 82. As fifth president of Matsushita, between February 1993 and June 2000, Morishita worked to turn around the company following the collapse of Japan’s bubble ...
Innovation Network Corp. of Japan, a government-affiliated investment fund, said Wednesday it will provide up to ¥75 billion in financial support to Japan Display Inc. INCJ, the top shareholder of Japan Display, decided on the aid as the display maker found it difficult to procure funds for strategic investment on ...
President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday he is naming billionaire Carl Icahn, a vocal critic of government overregulation, to serve as a special adviser to overhaul “strangling regulations.” The 80-year-old Icahn, who is known as aggressive, activist investor in the companies he is involved with, will not be a government employee, ...
Apple Inc.’s quest to adopt advanced displays for its next-generation iPhone hinges on a single supplier in the Japanese countryside. Canon Tokki Corp., surrounded by rice fields in the city of Mitsuke in Niigata Prefecture, has a near monopoly on the machines capable of making screens with organic light-emitting diodes, ...
The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday approved a record-high ¥97.45 trillion budget for fiscal 2017, as swelling social security costs moved Japan further away from its goal of reining in overall spending and restoring its tattered fiscal health. The budget for the year starting in April also ...
He was a first-term senator-turned-president, a former law professor with little experience in economics or management. When he entered the White House he had one essential task: piece together the shards of a shattered U.S. economy. It wasn’t smooth and it wasn’t fast. But President Barack Obama will leave behind, ...
In China’s auto market, carmakers are employing a strategy that’s long been eschewed by the rest of the world: If a new model is helping you win, introduce a twin. Take Honda Motor Co., whose namesake brand has been the fastest growing in China’s mass market this year. With its ...
The ruling bloc has officially adopted a plan to extend the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line through the city of Obama in Fukui Prefecture and Kyoto Station in neighboring Kyoto Prefecture. The decision was made at a Tuesday project-team meeting of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its Komeito ally. The extended ...