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Vai alla Scheda Paese »That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Shareholders of JX Holdings Inc., Japan’s biggest oil refiner, and third-ranked TonenGeneral Sekiyu K.K. approved a planned April merger on Wednesday. The new firm, to be launched April 1, will be named JXTG Holdings Inc., with sales topping more than ¥11 trillion ($93 billion) when combining the two refiners’ most ...
A wave of startups is emerging in famously risk-averse Japan as cash-rich corporations increasingly delegate the task of keeping pace with technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics to smaller, nimbler businesses. Japan has been dry ground for startups, given the shame that entrepreneurs and investors associate with failure, but ...
Cleaning up the Fukushima nuclear plant — a task predicted to cost 86 times the amount earmarked for decommissioning Japan’s first commercial reactor — is the mother of all salvage jobs. Still, foreign firms with decades of experience are seeing little of the spoils. Safely dismantling the Japanese power plant, ...
The dollar was easier around ¥117.50 in Tokyo trading on Wednesday, with traders retreating to the sidelines ahead of the Christmas holidays. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥117.59-59, down from ¥117.89-89 at the same time on Tuesday. The euro was at $1.0407-0407, up from $1.0392-0392, and at ¥122.40-40, ...
Shares turned lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday, weighed down by selling to lock in gains. The 225-issue Nikkei average shed 50.04 points, or 0.26 percent, to end at 19,444.49. On Tuesday, the key market gauge rose 102.93 points. The Topix index of all first-section issues closed down 7.42 ...
After a long year, the Bank of Japan unexpectedly finds itself in a sweet spot. The yen has tumbled in recent weeks, thanks to surging global bond yields, and economic conditions at home and abroad are improving. Though less than bullish, the outlook for the world’s third-largest economy looks more ...
The United States on Tuesday blacklisted seven Russian businessmen and eight companies and government enterprises over Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the conflict in Ukraine, the U.S. Treasury said in a statement. The sanctions come a month before U.S. President Barack Obama hands over power to President-elect Donald Trump, who ...
President Barack Obama is expected to order wide swaths of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans placed permanently off-limits for oil drilling, people briefed on the administration’s plan said, in an 11th-hour push for environmental protection before he leaves office. Obama was planning to announce the move on Tuesday, said the ...
Families of three patrons killed in the Orlando nightclub massacre sued Facebook, Google and Twitter, claiming the gunman who killed their loved ones was radicalized through propaganda found through social media. The families of Tevin Crosby, Juan Ramon Guerrero Jr. and Javier Jorge-Reyes filed the lawsuit Monday in federal court ...
President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team on Tuesday denied a report that his sons were seeking donations of up to $1 million in exchange for possible post-inauguration access. The Center for Public Integrity, an award-winning group that addresses ethics and other policy issues, said a nonprofit foundation was set up last ...
A Newsweek reporter who has epilepsy said he had a seizure after being sent a message on Twitter intended to trigger such an episode and is seeking information from the social media company to identify the person responsible for the tweet. The image in question — which included a strobe ...
It’s not at all clear that President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to spend massively on infrastructure are going to unfold as he promised. Trump made rebuilding the nation’s aging roads, bridges and airports very much part of his job-creation strategy in the presidential race. But lately lobbyists have begun to fear ...
Major trading house Itochu Corp. will invest in one of the largest German offshore wind farms jointly with a wholly owned subsidiary of Chinese state-backed conglomerate CITIC Group Corp. Itochu said Tuesday that it and Hong Kong-based CITIC Pacific Ltd. have agreed to acquire from a Danish pension fund a ...
SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son told President-elect Donald Trump this month he would create 50,000 jobs in the United States. Money for the first 3,000 positions was announced on Monday. Satellite startup OneWeb Ltd. said it raised $1.2 billion (about ¥141.6 billion) from SoftBank and existing investors, ...
Japan and the European Union now aim to reach a broad agreement on a bilateral free trade pact in 2017, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said, dropping their plan to strike a deal before the end of this year. “We’ve decided it can’t helped that the negotiations will carry over to ...
Sales at department stores across Japan dropped 2.4 percent in November from a year earlier on a same-store basis, down for the ninth consecutive month. Overall sales at 234 outlets run by 81 companies stood at ¥525.7 billion, the Japan Department Stores Association said Tuesday. But the size of the ...
The Bank of Japan closed a tumultuous year for monetary policy with an upgrade to its assessment of the economy while keeping its yield-curve and asset-purchase programs unchanged. After the board’s first policy meeting since the election of Donald Trump, the BOJ forecast a moderate recovery trend to continue amid ...
The dollar bounced back to levels near ¥118 in Tokyo trading late Tuesday, on expectations that the Bank of Japan will move to stem a further rise in government bond yields. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥117.89-89, up from ¥117.34-35 at the same time on Monday. The euro ...
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. said Tuesday that it will buy U.S. freight car leasing firm American Railcar Leasing LLC for roughly $2.8 billion, eyeing a boost in its earnings on the brighter U.S. economic outlook. The Japanese bank plans to acquire all shares in the Missouri-based company from an investment ...
The benchmark Nikkei stock average hit a new closing high for 2016 on Tuesday after the Bank of Japan painted a brighter picture of the country’s economy. The 225-issue Nikkei average climbed 102.93 points, or 0.53 percent, to end at 19,494.53, its highest finish since Dec. 7, 2015. On Monday, ...
Super Mario might be running, but a hefty price tag for a mobile game just won’t fly with the masses. The world, so far, is underwhelmed by “Super Mario Run,” which Nintendo released for the iPhone last week. This is no “Pokemon Go,” which captivated millions of players with a ...