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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Ltd., a venture between Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Hitachi Ltd., is eyeing Africa and Latin America to export its geothermal turbines, hoping to supply equipment for projects backed by Japan’s aid agency. The company, which announced winning an order in October to supply a 55-megawatt ...
Japan’s consumer prices fell in October, government data showed Friday, extending the longest string of declines in five years and underscoring its struggles to conquer deflation. The weak inflation data — core prices excluding fresh food fell 0.4 percent from a year ago — came several weeks after Japan’s central ...
The dollar was moderately above ¥113 in Tokyo trading late Friday after temporarily slipping below the ¥113 mark earlier in the day. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥113.13-13, down from ¥113.31-32 at the same time Thursday. The euro was at $1.0587-0587, up from $1.0536-0537, and at ¥119.77-77, up ...
Over the last 10 years, Japan’s 14 million part-time workers cut their working hours by more than 6 percent. They now work about 4.5 hours a day. That’s a blow to a country that’s struggling with a declining population, and to a government seeking to increase people’s take-home pay and ...
Japan Display Inc. may issue preferred shares to raise as much as ¥100 billion from a government-backed fund, people familiar with the matter said, a deal that amounts to a bailout of the struggling display maker. The Tokyo-based supplier of screens to Apple Inc. has explored ways to win a ...
Switzerland votes in a referendum on Sunday on whether to make a speedy withdrawal from atomic energy production, a move that would reduce nuclear risks but raise reliance on fossil fuels from Germany or imported nuclear power from France. The opposition Swiss Greens and Social Democrats have pushed for a ...
The benchmark Nikkei average extended its winning streak to a seventh session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, with investors taking heart from a weaker yen. The 225-issue Nikkei average advanced 47.81 points, or 0.26 percent, to close at 18,381.22, the highest closing level since Jan. 4. The length of ...
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party agreed Friday to unify tax rates on beer and beer-like drinks in fiscal 2017 tax reforms, with an eye on adopting a uniform tax rate in October 2026, lawmakers said. Under the plan by the LDP’s tax commission, the tax rate on beer will be ...
While Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda’s vow to overshoot the Bank of Japan’s 2 percent inflation target caused a stir among monetary policy watchers in September, it’s yet to have an impact among retailers. Stores as diverse as supermarket operator Aeon, Mister Donut and Wal-Mart have all announced price cuts since Kuroda’s ...
Global technology giant IBM carried most of the blame for the crash of Australia’s online census three months ago and has compensated the government for the financial cost of the debacle, the prime minister said on Friday. Australia’s first attempt to conduct a census online shut down for 43 hours ...
A well-connected Indonesian marine renewable energy company and OpenHydro, a unit of French state-owned naval defense company DCNS, aim to be the first to plug into the vast untapped tidal energy potential of the world’s biggest archipelago. Renewables have so far played little part in Indonesia’s power sector, despite the ...
Leading Japanese content and media producer Kadokawa Corp. has launched a joint venture with Thailand’s largest publisher, Amarin Printing and Publishing PCL, foraying into its sixth overseas content market. The joint venture, Kadokawa Amarin Co., follows investments in the publishing and content business in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and ...
The dollar on Thursday surged above ¥113 for the first time since March 29, amid continued hopes for an early U.S. interest rate hike and the economic policies of the next U.S. administration. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥113.31-32, up from ¥110.91-92 the same time Tuesday. The euro ...
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Thursday that its first meeting with new Niigata Gov. Ryuichi Yoneyama will be held at the Niigata Prefectural Government’s offices in Niigata next Tuesday. The meeting, initially scheduled for last Tuesday, was canceled by the magnitude-7.4 earthquake that coincidentally struck off Fukushima Prefecture ...
Stocks advanced further Thursday, backed by an overnight rise in U.S. equities and more drift in the yen. The 225-issue Nikkei average rose 170.47 points, or 0.94 percent, to end at 18,333.41 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, its highest since Jan. 5. The key market gauge extended its winning streak ...
DON HILLEBRAND, AN American motor-industry veteran, has an intriguing job. In a warehouse at the secure Argonne National Laboratory, which arose from the University of Chicago’s work on the Manhattan Project, he scrutinises foreign-made cars, trucks and lithium-ion batteries to discover their technological secrets and share them with his employer, ...
The government plans to scrap its tariffs on toys in April to ease the burden on domestic makers that sell imported products, Finance Ministry sources said on Wednesday. About 80 percent of the nation’s toy companies make products overseas, such as in China, to take advantage of lower labor costs. ...
A Mexican cement maker is ready to lend its services to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to build the wall he wants to erect on the southern border of the United States to curb immigration. “We can’t be choosy,” Enrique Escalante, chief executive officer of Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua (GCC), said ...
SoftBank Group Corp. plans to build more wind projects in Mongolia as Chairman Masayoshi Son pushes to connect countries across Asia with transmission lines to supply cheap, clean energy. The Tokyo-based company’s first wind farm in Mongolia is a 50-megawatt project being developed with Newcom LLC in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. ...
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party basically agreed Thursday to raise the income threshold for the spousal tax deduction system to ¥1.5 million ($13,300) from ¥1.03 million to encourage more women to participate in the workforce. The current threshold on annual earnings has been criticized for discouraging women from working long ...
It sounds like a great idea: Instead of passwords, lock your phone or computer with your fingerprint. But this convenient form of security may not be as safe as you might think. In their rush to do away with the problem of passwords, Apple, Microsoft and other tech companies are ...