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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Like convenience stores, many nationwide restaurant chains used to stay open 24 hours a day, targeting younger generations who want to dine or sip beer in the late-night hours. But amid a decline in the number of nighttime customers, many operators are starting to close around midnight. And as cases ...
Nowcast Inc., a Japanese financial research and technology startup, has developed a product that estimates economic growth in real time by using satellite images of nighttime lights. Based on algorithms that examine changes in the intensity of illumination, as well as a range of published statistics, including those for industrial ...
Federal energy officials have named the four companies that will pursue the possibility of conducting a test to determine whether nuclear waste can be buried far underground. The U.S. Department of Energy on Monday said the companies will explore potential sites for the test in South Dakota, Texas and New ...
General Motors will temporarily close five factories next month as it tries to reduce a growing inventory of cars on dealer lots. The factories will close anywhere from one to three weeks due to the continuing U.S. market shift toward trucks and SUVs, spokeswoman Dayna Hart said. Just over 10,000 ...
President-elect Donald Trump’s ambitious plans to revive exports, return jobs to the United States and increase oil drilling are running up against a home-grown threat: The surging dollar. Since the Nov. 8 election, the dollar has shot up 5 percent. An index that tracks the dollar against other major currencies ...
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Monday that college graduates are entering the strongest job market the country has seen in nearly a decade, and their degree is more important than ever. Yellen said that with changes in the job market such as technology and globalization, succeeding in the job ...
While it is working on attractions based on the mega-hit game series “Super Mario Bros.,” the operator of Universal Studios Japan said Monday that the amusement park plans to re-create the world of another popular game series, “Dragon Quest,” in March USJ Co. said visitors will be able to explore ...
A theme park featuring seven popular Japanese ramen restaurants opened at Joy City shopping mall in Shanghai on Monday. The restaurants, selected from such regions as Hokkaido and Fukuoka prefectures, will offer local ramen to Shanghai residents. According to mobile game operator Klab Inc., which runs the park, the permanent ...
The Fair Trade Commission has approved the merger of Japan’s largest oil refiner, JX Holdings Inc., and third-ranked TonenGeneral Sekiyu K.K. The commission also allowed Idemitsu Kosan Co., the second-biggest oil refiner, to buy shares in fifth-ranked Showa Shell from Royal Dutch Shell PLC. The two companies are seeking a ...
Canon Inc. has completed its acquisition of a Toshiba Corp. medical unit that the embattled parent company put on sale earlier this year in a bid to emerge from a window-dressing scandal. The printer, photocopier and camera manufacturer announced the purchase Monday of Toshiba Medical Systems Corp. for ¥665.5 billion ...
NEC Corp. said it will develop cancer drugs using artificial intelligence, aiming to put new vaccines using peptides into practical use within the next eight years as key substances in next generation immunotherapy. A peptide is a short chain of amino acids with an enormous number of variations and helps ...
Japan posted a goods trade surplus of ¥152.51 billion ($1.30 billion) in November after imports fell more than exports on cheaper crude oil prices and the yen’s strength, the government said in a preliminary report Monday. A breakdown of the third consecutive monthly surplus shows that the value of exports ...
The Nikkei average snapped its nine-day winning streak Monday, pressured by the yen’s strengthening and weaker U.S. equities. The key 225-issue index lost 9.55 points, or 0.05 percent, to end at 19,391.60 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. On Friday, the key gauge rose 127.36 points. The Topix index of all ...
The dollar fell back to levels around ¥117.30 in Tokyo trading late Monday, weighed down by position-adjustment selling ahead of a monetary policy decision by the Bank of Japan on Tuesday. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥117.34-35, down from ¥118.20-20 at the same time Friday. The euro was ...
Total financial assets held by Japan’s households at the end of September grew 0.6 percent from a year before to ¥1.752 quadrillion, the first rise in three quarters, the Bank of Japan said Monday. Of the total, cash and deposits came to ¥916 trillion, up 1.4 percent to mark the ...
For investors in Japan’s markets this year, it’s been a case of one shock after the next in a pattern that might have prepared them well for the era of Donald Trump and his reputation for the unexpected. The yen, Topix and the government bond market — the largest outside ...
The government plans to compile a record-high general account budget of around ¥97.45 trillion ($830 billion) for fiscal 2017 starting April, legislative sources said Monday, with social security costs accounting for roughly a third of all spending. With the population aging rapidly, the initial budget is expected to break the ...
A withering factory town in the rust belt is looking for revival through a dose of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s “robot revolution.” Kadoma’s population in Osaka Prefecture has shrunk 13 percent as the nation ages, prompting mergers among elementary schools and emergency services departments. Factories can’t find enough people to ...
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is increasing the heat on the federal government to consider recalling e-cigarette batteries and devices that explode and catch fire, injuring users. Schumer, a New York Democrat, has called e-cigarettes “ticking time bombs” and said they continue to cause injuries including severe burns. At a press ...
In the summer of 2013, Yahoo Inc. launched a project to better secure the passwords of its customers, abandoning the use of a discredited technology for encrypting data known as MD5. It was too late. In August of that year, hackers got hold of more than a billion Yahoo accounts, ...
Three years and three months later, a massive oil spill in North Dakota still isn’t fully cleaned up. The company responsible hasn’t even set a date for completion. Though crews have been working around the clock to deal with the Tesoro Corp. pipeline break, which happened in a wheat field ...