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Vai alla Scheda Paese »That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Asahi Shuzo Co., maker of popular Japanese sake brand Dassai, will open a shop in Paris as early as next spring in collaboration with renowned French chef Joel Robuchon. The Paris outlet will sell Dassai and operate a bar, with Robuchon to oversee a restaurant that will pair the rice ...
Apple has revealed it is investing heavily in autonomous vehicles in a letter asking the government to make it easier to develop self-driving cars. The company is “excited about the potential of automated systems in many areas, including transportation,” Apple said in a November 22 letter to the National Highway ...
Japanese footwear and sports equipment manufacturer Asics was on Saturday named as an official partner of the IAAF.
SoftBank Group Corp. is close to tying up $100 billion for a technology fund that it announced with the government of Saudi Arabia, the company’s founder and Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son has said. “I am talking to a few investors and I think we are oversubscribed,” Son said at ...
The U.S. jobs report released Friday made one thing clear: President-elect Donald Trump will inherit the same two-track U.S. economy that bedeviled his predecessor. Hiring is solid and the unemployment rate low. But longer-term problems persist — especially a stubbornly high number of men who are out of work and ...
The dollar fluctuated in a narrow range around ¥114 in Tokyo trading late Friday, as a wait-and-see mood grew ahead of the release of a closely watched U.S. government jobs report for November. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥113.94-95, down from ¥114.15-16 at the same time Thursday. The ...
The government plans to adopt a fiscal 2017 general account budget that’s worth more than ¥97 trillion, which would set a new record, sources said Friday. The budget will exceed the previous year’s initial budget for the fifth consecutive year, the sources said. The initial fiscal 2016 budget was ¥96.7 ...
A company behind a health care information website under fire over inaccurate, plagiarized articles on Thursday said it had temporarily suspended operations of eight other niche online services. It emerged this week that articles on DeNA Co.’s website Welq were not properly fact-checked and that outside contributors were told to ...
The dollar fluctuated in a narrow range around ¥114 in Tokyo trading late Friday, as a wait-and-see mood grew ahead of the release of a closely watched U.S. government jobs report for November. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥113.94-95, down from ¥114.15-16 at the same time Thursday. The ...
Hate doing laundry? Shin Sakane has a solution. The Japanese inventor received ¥6 billion ($53 million) from partners, including Panasonic Corp., last month to advance “the Laundroid” — a robot Sakane is developing to not only wash and dry garments, but also sort, fold and neatly arrange them. The refrigerator-size ...
The Diet enacts a law allowing so-called dormant bank deposits untouched for at least 10 years to be used for public-interest activities. The post Diet passes bill to allow use of dormant deposits for public interest appeared first on The Japan Times.
ANA Holdings Inc. has invested in PD Aerospace Ltd., a Japanese company developing a craft to take people into space as early as 2023 that aims to rival Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Ltd. The airline, Japan’s largest by sales, invested ¥20.4 million ($179,000) into PD Aerospace in October, while H.I.S. ...
Stocks turned lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, pushed down by selling to lock in profits prior to closely watched events. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 87.04 points, or 0.47 percent, to close at 18,426.08. On Thursday, the key market gauge climbed 204.64 points to mark its highest closing ...
Starbucks says CEO Howard Schultz, who transformed the chain into a global coffee brand, is stepping down from that role at the coffee chain that he joined more than 30 years ago. The Seattle-based company announced Thursday that Kevin Johnson, who was named president and chief operating officer last year, ...
U.S. military veterans were arriving on Thursday at a camp to join thousands of activists braving snow and freezing temperatures to protest a pipeline project near a Native American reservation in North Dakota. Protesters have spent months rallying against plans to route the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline beneath a ...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump visited a factory in Indiana on Thursday to kick off a “thank you tour” for his election win and celebrate persuading air conditioner maker Carrier Corp. to preserve around 1,000 jobs in the state rather than move them to Mexico. The Republican businessman toured the plant ...
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim said on Thursday that if President-elect Donald Trump succeeds as U.S. leader, it will be good news for Mexico, offering a more upbeat view on the outlook for a Trump government than he had previously. Slim, a telecoms tycoon who spent several years as the world’s ...
Wilbur Ross, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Commerce secretary, told Finance Minister Taro Aso of his interest in strengthening bilateral economic ties in a letter personally delivered by a representative in Tokyo on Thursday. According to a source who sat in on the meeting at the Finance Ministry between ...
A company behind a health care information website under fire over inaccurate, plagiarized articles on Thursday said it had temporarily suspended operations of eight other niche online services. It emerged this week that articles on DeNA Co.’s website Welq were not properly fact-checked and that outside contributors were told to ...
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President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, said on Wednesday the administration would make tax reform and trade pact overhauls top priorities in order to achieve a sustained pace of 3 percent to 4 percent economic growth. The one-time Goldman Sachs banker, together with Wilbur Ross, ...