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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview Sunday that his executives would run his business empire alongside his children, pushing back against charges that his vast real estate holdings would pose a conflict of interest for him in the White House. Trump has said he will leave day-to-day control of ...
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. and Sharp Corp. are considering investing ¥800 billion in a new Chinese plant they envision beginning production of large TVs in 2019. The post Hon Hai, Sharp mull major LCD display panel plant in China appeared first on The Japan Times.
Beyond the inculcation of good eating habits and an appreciation of wholesome food, Japan's school lunch program stresses the importance of community and helps children understand their responsibilities within the group. The post Japan’s humble school lunch: social leveler and sacred cow appeared first on The Japan Times.
Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo agreed Friday to swallow European banana king Fyffes for €751 million (¥91.1 billion) in a takeover of one of Ireland’s biggest companies. The Dublin-based fruit importer and distributor, best known for its Fyffes-branded bananas, accepted Sumitomo’s bid worth the equivalent of $804 million, it said in a ...
President-elect Donald Trump is stacking his trade transition team with veterans of the U.S. steel industry’s battles with China, signaling a potentially more aggressive approach to U.S. complaints of unfair Chinese subsidies for its exports and barriers to imports. Led by Wilbur Ross, a billionaire steel investor and Trump’s nominee ...
Despite the Diet’s approval Friday of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the 12-nation free trade agreement is unlikely to come into force as it currently stands given U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to pull the United States out of it once he takes office in January. Some scholars have suggested that if ...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will likely ask a senior Goldman Sachs banker to coordinate economic policy across his administration, turning again to Wall Street for expertise in managing the world’s largest economy, a transition official said on Friday. Trump’s pick of Goldman President Gary Cohn, 56, to head the White ...
The U.S. government is trying to get automakers to move faster to fix 42 million vehicles that are being recalled because of potentially deadly Takata air bag inflators. Expressing renewed concern about the pace of the recall, which is the largest ever for the U.S. auto industry, officials from the ...
Chances of the deal taking effect are considered slim, as Donald Trump has vowed to withdraw after being sworn in. The post Diet ratifies TPP but trade deal remains dead in the water without U.S. appeared first on The Japan Times.
The benchmark Nikkei average extended its winning streak to a fourth session Friday, reflecting higher overseas equities overnight, and rewrote its 2016 closing high for a second straight day. The 225-issue Nikkei average added 230.90 points, or 1.23 percent, to close at 18,996.37 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after topping ...
The dollar rose to levels around ¥114.50 in Tokyo trading on Friday, inspired by hefty gains on the stock market, where the key Nikkei average briefly topped the 19,000 mark for the first time this year. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥114.42-42, up from ¥113.63-63 at the same ...
Cerevo Inc. said Friday it has launched a shape-changing home projector robot that can turn ceilings, walls and floors into displays. The Tokyo-based hardware venture firm’s new robot, called Tipron, is also capable of learning where to project images, moving to those positions by itself, and returning to its charging ...
The Cabinet plans to approve both an initial budget for fiscal 2017 and an extra budget for the current fiscal year on Dec. 22, Finance Minister Taro Aso said Friday. An initial state budget is often approved by the Cabinet on Christmas Eve every year. However, this year the schedule ...
More than half of the business leaders in the global financial services industry agree that digital transformation determines the development of their business, realizes efficient business processes and brings more profits, but they have yet to find effective ways of doing so, according to a recent industry survey. The finding ...
The European Central Bank decided Thursday to extend its asset purchase program by nine months to the end of 2017 to boost tepid price growth, but pledged to reduce the monthly pace of buying from April. The ECB said it will continue asset purchases at the current pace of €80 ...
Sumitomo Corp. agreed to buy Fyffes Plc for €751 million ($798 million) in cash, expanding the company’s reach in the global fruit market and sending the Irish producer’s shares soaring. Sumitomo offered €2.23 for the Dublin-based company, 49 percent more than Fyffes’ closing price on Thursday. Fyffes stock rose 48 ...
Il Giappone ratifica il trattato di libero scambio transpacifico (Tpp). Tokyo ha ratificato il trattato transpacifico (Tpp), un patto commerciale di libero scambio, firmato nel febbraio del 2016 da dodici paesi dell’Asia, dell’America e dell’Oceania che si affacciano sul Pacifico. Per entrare in vigore il trattato, che prevede la soppressione ...
Japan followed the United States and the European Union on Thursday in announcing a policy of not treating China as a market economy under World Trade Organization standards. The move countered China’s claim that the world’s second-largest economy will automatically be recognized as a WTO-standard market economy, following the 15th ...
Washington on Thursday became the first U.S. state to sue the agrochemical giant Monsanto over pervasive pollution from PCBs, the toxic industrial chemicals that have accumulated in plants, fish and people around the globe for decades. Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced the lawsuit at a ...
Takata Corp. will move its head office from a posh building in an upscale Tokyo district to a redeveloped area to cut costs, as the troubled air-bag maker fights to survive the biggest recall in the auto industry’s history. The company will move next week to an office tower built ...
Global airline earnings are set to suffer their first annual decline in six years after reaching a record in 2016 as higher oil prices clip margins, according to the industry’s main trade group. Net income is likely to total $29.8 billion worldwide in 2017, the International Air Transport Association said ...