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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Twitter has restored a white nationalist group leader’s personal account less than a month after the social media company suspended it along with other accounts belonging to prominent members of the “alt-right” movement. Twitter allowed Richard Spencer, head of the Montana-based National Policy Institute, to reactivate the account Saturday. The ...
Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. and its Japanese subsidiary Sharp Corp. will stop supplying liquid crystal display panels for televisions to South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. from next year, industry sources said Wednesday. Hon Hai and Sharp are planning to shift supply of the product, manufactured by Sakai Display ...
U.S.-allied Asian ambassadors are urging President-elect Donald Trump to reconsider his opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and keep the U.S. engaged in Asia. Ambassadors from Australia, South Korean and Singapore made the appeal at a Washington think tank Tuesday. The Obama administration championed the trade pact, which was ...
NHK said Tuesday it plans to distribute programs of its two terrestrial television channels through the internet on a steady basis from 2019. Such simultaneous broadcasting on the internet is currently banned under the Broadcast Law. As NHK’s plan, to be realized, will apparently require an amendment to the law, ...
Major U.S. stock indexes are reaching record highs Tuesday as big-name technology companies like Apple trade higher and energy companies extend a recent winning streak. The Dow Jones industrial average traded above 19,900 for the first time. The Federal Reserve began its last policy meeting of the year, and it’s ...
Cristiano Ronaldo had very little time to celebrate Tuesday after capturing a fourth Ballon d'Or as Real Madrid got down to Club World Cup business in Japan.
A Thai solar energy developer is taking full advantage of incentives in Japan to expand its business in the country, saying its Japanese operations promise to be much more profitable than those at home.
In the more than four decades since President Richard Nixon’s historic trip to China, the United States has become China’s largest export and China is one of the largest markets for U.S. exporters and a source of supply for everything from smartphones to spark plugs. The following are some examples ...
The Asian Development Bank on Tuesday trimmed its economic growth forecast this year for developing Asia to 5.6 percent. The revision was slightly below the previous projection of 5.7 percent due to a slight slowdown in India, one of developing Asia’s biggest economies. Forecast growth for the entire region next ...
Japanese construction equipment manufacturers are poised to take advantage of India’s growing infrastructure investment, planning to boost production capacity and putting new models on the market. Kobelco Construction Machinery Co.’s Indian subsidiary is planning to double its annual production capacity as it expects demand for heavy construction machinery to increase ...
The nation’s first offshore wind farm has opened off the coast of Rhode Island, ushering in a new era in the U.S. for the industry. Deepwater Wind built five turbines 3 miles off Block Island to power about 17,000 homes, a project costing about $300 million. It announced Monday that ...
The operator of Universal Studios Japan in Osaka said Monday that it will open a Nintendo-themed area featuring the game maker’s popular characters by summer 2020, investing over ¥50 billion ($432 million). USJ Co. said it will create an area called “Super Nintendo World,” showcasing iconic characters, including “Super Mario ...
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp. announced a top management reshuffle Tuesday, replacing the current Chairman Albert Kirchmann with Vice Chairman Kazuo Matsunaga at the end of the year. The Kawasaki-based truck maker, a unit of German auto giant Daimler group, said in a statement that Kirchmann will retire on ...
Convenience store chain Lawson and electronics maker Panasonic Corp. have started testing a staff-less register for which a machine settles the transactions and packs purchased items into a bag. The system, dubbed Reji Robo, short for register robots, debuted at an outlet of Lawson in Osaka Prefecture on Monday. Lawson ...
The dollar shed early losses and traded around ¥115.30 in Tokyo trading late Tuesday, supported by the resilience of Tokyo stocks and a rise in U.S. long-term interest rates. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥115.28-28, down from ¥115.83-84 at the same time Monday. The euro was at $1.0642-0643, ...
Carson Block, the prominent short seller and founder of Muddy Waters Capital LLC, targeted a Japanese firm for the first time with a negative report on motor-maker Nidec Corp. Muddy Waters is short the Kyoto-based company and sees its stock falling as much as 52 percent from Monday’s close, it ...
Major panel maker Japan Display Inc. will take a majority stake in Joled Inc., a display producer created by Panasonic Corp. and Sony Corp., by buying shares from a state-backed turnaround fund, a source said Tuesday. Japan Display, which currently owns a 15 percent stake in Joled, a maker of ...
The benchmark Nikkei average wiped out earlier losses to close at the highest level in about a year on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Tuesday thanks to investors’ strong buying appetite. The 225-issue Nikkei average rose 95.49 points, or 0.50 percent, to end at 19,250.52, marking its highest closing level since ...
Apple Inc. and SoftBank Group have held talks about Apple investing up to $1 billion in a $100 billion fund being raised by SoftBank, U.S. media reported Monday. By investing in potentially the world’s largest technology fund, Apple hopes to gain insight into emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, The Wall ...
A century-old U.S. trade group on Monday pledged to work with the incoming administration to improve access to overseas markets for American companies, but also to fight against protectionism. Rufus Yerxa, head of the 300-company National Foreign Trade Council, said his organization is prepared to work with President-elect Donald Trump ...
Some big names with big money say they plan to put more than $1 billion into developing technologies that will reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and lower the price of energy. Bill Gates said the fund plans to make its first investments next year and run for 20 years. A year ago, ...