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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Innovation Network Corp. of Japan, a government-backed investment fund, is considering providing more than ¥50 billion in financial support for Japan Display Inc., according to sources. Such a measure is being discussed as the ailing display maker is having difficulty procuring funds for strategic investment. The sources said the amount ...
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to add another wealthy business person and elite donor to his Cabinet, with fast-food executive Andrew Puzder as labor secretary. Puzder heads CKE Restaurants Holdings, the parent company of Carl’s Jr., Hardee’s and other chains. In 2010, he published a book called “Job Creation: How ...
China’s highest court on Thursday ruled in favor of basketball legend Michael Jordan at the culmination of a years-long case over use of the Chinese rendering of his globally known name and trademark. The former NBA star has been in dispute with a sportswear company based in southern China called ...
Abe’s government is expected to rubber-stamp the proposal and submit amendments to the ordinary Diet session slated for January. The post Tax reform proposal targets spousal income credit, irregular beer tax structure appeared first on The Japan Times.
The dollar dropped to levels around ¥113.60 in Tokyo trading on Thursday, dampened by a fall in long-term U.S. Treasury yields. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥113.63-63, down from ¥114.33-33 at the same time Wednesday. The euro was at $1.0761-0763, up from $1.0713-0713, and at ¥122.28-29, down from ...
The benchmark Nikkei average hit a new closing high for 2016 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday, driven by the overnight advance of U.S. equities. The 225-issue Nikkei average jumped 268.78 points, or 1.45 percent, to close at the day’s high of 18,765.47, its highest finish since Dec. 30 last ...
Nissan Motor Co., an automaker emblematic of what it means to be a global company, has a simple plan for navigating an unprecedented political and regulatory environment: Focus on what it can command. “The regulations are not in our control, but what is in our control is that we stay ...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. are making final arrangements to invest tens of billions of yen in atomic energy company Areva, which is being bailed out by the French government, sources close to the matter said Thursday. Through the investment, the heavy machinery manufacturer and the ...
(Teleborsa) - L'economia giapponese cresce meno delle stime iniziali e non riducono le probabilità che la Bank of Japan torni in campo per sostenere l'economia. Secondo l'Istituto di ricerca...
Japan's economy grew much slower than initially estimated in the third quarter, revised data showed, as capital expenditure dried up and companies ran down inventories - renewing concerns about Japan's growth prospects.
Japan posted a current account surplus for the 28th consecutive month in October, helped by cheap oil prices and the yen’s strength, the government said Thursday. The surplus jumped 22.7 percent to ¥1.72 trillion ($15 billion), with the trade surplus increasing. Among key components in the current account, one of ...
Japan’s third-quarter GDP was weaker than expected with a 0.3 percent expansion, revised data showed Thursday, as slack corporate spending held back the world’s No. 3 economy. The latest figures were lower than an initial estimate of 0.5 percent growth in the July to September period, with exports also under ...
As the government pushes flexible working arrangements under its labor market reforms, more and more firms are letting employees take on second jobs. Struggling with a labor shortage, such companies seek to secure talented human resources by allowing employees more flexibility in their work. Some also believe employees can widen ...
Sales of humidifiers are on the increase in Japan, where the influenza season has begun earlier than usual, prompting makers to increase production. According to the Japanese operations of global market research company GfK, sales of humidifiers in November in Japan increased by more than 35 percent from a year ...
Competition for talented information technology experts is intensifying in Japan’s job-hopping market amid advances in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Demand for competent IT workers is growing rapidly from non-IT companies in the face of an expanding need for adaptation to the so-called internet of things (IoT), or the networking of ...
Boeing has pledged to control costs on the redesign of Air Force One after President-elect Donald Trump blasted the aerospace giant for the ballooning expenses, a company spokesman said Wednesday. Boeing chief executive Dennis Muilenburg reassured Trump in a phone call Tuesday night about its commitment to keeping a tight ...
Repealing President Barack Obama’s health care law without a replacement risks making nearly 30 million people uninsured, according to a study released Wednesday. Separately, a professional group representing benefit advisers warned congressional leaders of the risk of “significant market disruption” that could cause millions of Americans to lose their health ...
The first wave of virtual reality cinemas, heralding what their creators claim will be an entertainment revolution, rolls out across the world this month. The first screening room in France opened Wednesday and several others are promised for Beijing, Shanghai and Los Angeles in the next few weeks. Like the ...
Starbucks plans to open 12,000 new locations within five years, boosting the total number of its coffee shops worldwide by almost 50 percent. The Seattle brewer outlined its growth plans before investors in New York on Wednesday, about a week after it announced that Howard Schultz, who has built Starbucks ...
Terumo Corp. has agreed to buy part of the catheter-related operations of two U.S. medical equipment companies for $1.12 billion. The acquisition will be completed after a merger of the two U.S. companies, Abbott Laboratories and St. Jude Medical Inc., Terumo said Wednesday. After the acquisition, Terumo, a Japanese medical ...
Corporate Japan is bracing for a rocky ride under incoming U.S. President Donald Trump, a Reuters poll showed, with well over a third of firms seeing a contraction in global trade as concerns about a rise in U.S. protectionism threaten to shatter a fragile economic recovery. Fully three-quarters of Japanese ...