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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The Asahi Group said Tuesday it will pay about $7.7 billion for AB InBev’s beer assets in five Eastern European countries, as the Japanese brewer expands its presence in Europe. The purchase — Asahi’s biggest overseas acquisition — includes popular Czech beer Pilsner Urquell and other businesses in Hungary, Poland, ...
TOKYO - ANA Holdings Inc has invested in a new airline venture in Myanmar that aims to start international flights in 2018 as the Japanese carrier seeks to capture demand in Asia’s fastest-growing economy.
President-elect Donald Trump is vowing to corral the “out of control” cost of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. But congressional Republicans and Democrats, aware of the tens of thousands of jobs the aircraft generates in 45 states, will be wary of any plans by Trump to cut the program. A ...
The European Commission said Monday it has fined Sony Corp., Panasonic Corp. and Sanyo Electric Co. a total of €166 million ($176 million) for collusion on the pricing of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. The commission said the companies had formed a price-fixing cartel together with South Korea’s Samsung SDI Co. between ...
Officials estimate more than 176,000 gallons of crude oil leaked from a pipeline into a North Dakota creek. State environmental scientist Bill Suess (sees) says a landowner discovered the spill on Dec. 5 near Belfield. Suess says the oil has migrated more than 5 miles from the spill site along ...
[Monitor] Kampala -Japan is banking on enhancing its footprint in Uganda through investments in quality infrastructure and partnering with a number of local construction firms to help them boost their capacity.
(Teleborsa) - L'outlook 2017 del mercato azionario giapponese è diventato "lievemente più complicato" dopo le elezioni presidenziali degli Stati Uniti. Se il rafforzamento del...
President-elect Donald Trump has lost no chance to bash or threaten individual companies that cross him. Yet much of corporate America appears to view Trump not as an adversary but as a powerful friend. For all his bullying stance toward some companies, businesses have been cheered by his vows to ...
The benchmark Nikkei average closed above 19,000 for the first time in almost a year on Monday, with investor sentiment lifted by U.S. equities’ advance late last week and the yen’s fall. The 225-issue Nikkei average gained 158.66 points, or 0.84 percent, to end at 19,155.03 on the Tokyo Stock ...
The dollar hit a 10-month high above ¥115.80 in Tokyo trading on Monday, lifted by surging stock prices in Japan and abroad and a rise in U.S. long-term interest rates. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥115.83-84, up from ¥114.42-42 at the same time Friday. The euro was at ...
As a student, Tatsuya Honda was just being nice when he helped a deaf man who had gotten lost at a festival at Future University Hakodate in Hokkaido in 2009. But he never imagined that the encounter would grow into two things — a friendship and inspiration to develop a ...
Masayoshi Amamiya is viewed as so essential to operations at the Bank of Japan that he’s known inside the central bank as “Mr. BOJ.” With the shift in recent months from a blitz on deflation to a long-haul campaign that’s set to outlast Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda’s term, Amamiya is at ...
A Citigroup Inc. currency trader in Tokyo who sued the U.S. bank after it fired him for allegedly trying to manipulate foreign-exchange rates has settled the case. The wrongful-dismissal lawsuit was withdrawn on Nov. 2 after the court-mediated settlement, according to Tokyo District Court records, the details of which were ...
Decades of economic stagnation have taken a toll on Japan’s consumers, who went from being big spenders before the bubble economy imploded in the 1990s to masters of thrift today. For the government’s Abenomics program, a lot hinges on how much the average person spends, and how they respond to ...
Wholesale prices dropped 2.2 percent in November as lower oil prices helped drag the downtrend into its 20th consecutive month, Bank of Japan data showed Monday. The result underscores the fact that the central bank faces a difficult challenge in attaining its 2 percent inflation target. Wholesale prices tend to ...
Core private-sector machinery orders rose a seasonally adjusted 4.1 percent in October from the previous month, lifted by strong growth in the nonmanufacturing sector, the government said Monday in maintaining its basic assessment. The orders, which exclude those for ships and from utilities because of their volatility and are widely ...
Fine fair on Air France Since Nov. 3, Air France has offered upgraded meal service for business-class passengers on its Paris-Haneda route. A choice of cold appetizers or warm vegetable soup that includes pumpkin, potatoes and peas is now available. There are six types of entrees created by Guy Martin, ...
Sri Lankan naval troops fired warning shots to break up a protest by striking dock workers who have held up a Japanese vessel for four days at the island’s southern international port. Troops entered Hambantota port from the sea Saturday and fired warning shots to disperse the crowd, considering their ...
The governments of Japan and South Korea are unlikely to conclude their negotiations on a fresh currency swap deal by the end of the year, South Korean Deputy Prime Minister Yoo Il-ho has said. Yoo, also strategy and finance minister, told reporters Sunday that although Tokyo and Seoul are making ...
ANA Holdings Inc. has invested in a new airline venture in Myanmar that aims to start international flights in 2018 as the Japanese carrier seeks to capture demand in Asia’s fastest-growing economy. ANA has a 49 percent stake and a local company holds the remainder, Shinya Katanozaka, CEO of Japan’s ...
Iran signed a $16.6 billion deal for 80 Boeing passenger jets on Sunday and was said to be close to another for dozens of Airbus planes to complete what would be the biggest package of firm contracts with Western companies since Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution. The deal between IranAir and ...