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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
On select Canadian farms, thousands of pigs bound for Japan are basking in five-star treatment. Japan’s growing appetite for pricey pork cuts is driving Canadian and U.S. fresh pork exports to record levels, spurring producers to leverage every advantage in the race for market share. While most of the pigs ...
The average amount of savings secretly accumulated by married women in 2016 was ¥1.47 million, rising by more than ¥200,000 from the year before, according to a survey by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. The survey, released Wednesday, showed that husbands, on the other hand, had an average total secret ...
As Chinese investment in the United States keeps setting records, congressional advisers suggest changing U.S. law so Chinese state-owned companies can be barred from buying or gaining control of American businesses. The concern is that such enterprises could use technology, intelligence and market power “in the service of the Chinese ...
Twitter accounts of white supremacy advocates who cheered Donald Trump’s election victory were mute on Wednesday, suspended as the social network battles hateful vitriol spewed by “trolls.” Terminated Twitter accounts included that of Richard Spencer, a leader in an alt-right white nationalist movement in the U.S., and accounts associated with ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday asked business leaders to agree to pay hikes in next spring’s shunto wage talks as the Japanese economy struggles to beat chronic deflation. It is the fourth straight year that Abe has made the request to company executives. Despite years of efforts under his ...
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc. is paying €220 million ($235.4 million) to emblazon its logo on the FC Barcelona soccer team’s jerseys for four years, in one of the biggest sponsorship deals in the sport. Rakuten, which has been trying to raise its profile outside Japan after billions of dollars ...
Rakuten will replace Qatar Airways, Barcelona's shirt sponsor since 2013.
Japanese online retailer Rakuten will be Barcelona’s main sponsor for the next four years, the Spanish giants said Wednesday, Rakuten will replace Qatar Airways, Barcelona’s shirt sponsor since 2013, who were reported to have paid 35 million euros for the final year of their deal taking them up to the ...
Real estate loans extended in Japan in the April to September period rose 14.7 percent from a year earlier to ¥7.07 trillion, hitting a record high for the period for the second straight year, the Bank of Japan said Wednesday. The increase in the loans extended by 139 major and ...
The dollar advanced close to ¥109.50 in Tokyo trading late Wednesday, lifted by growing expectations for an interest rate increase in December by the U.S. Federal Reserve. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥109.44-45, up from ¥108.12-13 at the same time Tuesday. The euro was at $1.0704-0706, down from ...
The benchmark Nikkei average rebounded to hit a new nine-month closing high on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday thanks to an overnight rise in U.S. equities and the yen’s drop. The 225-issue Nikkei average gained 194.06 points, or 1.10 percent, to close at 17,862.21, its highest finish since Feb. 1. ...
Nintendo Co. will release “Super Mario Run” worldwide for Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPad on Dec. 15 in U.S. time zones, a highly anticipated launch that has a high bar for success after this summer’s “Pokemon Go” phenomenon. The game, the first mobile edition starring one of Nintendo’s most iconic ...
The yen, jolted in a 750-plus point range against the dollar in the week since Donald Trump’s presidential win, could fall back toward a February low of ¥115 on prospects of rapid U.S. interest rate increases. The dollar marked a five-month high above ¥108.50 on Monday, having sunk to almost ...
L’immagine del Giappone per le imprese italiane è di un mercato affidabile i cui prodotti riscuotono la fiducia dei consumatori. Una recente tendenza, vede l’impegno delle imprese superare il semplice scambio di prodotti tra Italia e Giappone per muoversi verso la creazione di nuovi business, in grado di sfruttare i ...
The number of condominiums newly listed for sale in the Tokyo region in October dropped 0.6 percent from a year earlier to 2,903 units, a research institute said Tuesday. Launches of large-scale condominium buildings in Tokyo and neighboring Chiba, Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures have ended, resulting in the drop in ...
Keidanren on Tuesday called on its some 1,300 member companies to take thorough measures to prevent excessive overtime, following the suicide of a freshman female worker due to overwork at advertising firm Dentsu Inc. last year. The move comes as the largest business lobby in Japan, also known as the ...
The government will test automated driving systems on public roads and highways in Tokyo between 2017 and 2019 in hopes of accelerating commercialization of the technology ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, according to the Cabinet Office. The government will invite foreign automakers to participate in the project, to run ...
While much of the world anxiously awaits what happens under U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, one factory manager in Japan is all smiles. Ogawa Studio, the only manufacturer of rubber masks in Japan, is working feverishly to catch up with a flood of orders for Trump masks since his election victory ...
U.S. tech giant Google on Tuesday confirmed it will expand its vast campus in central London, a move a source said is expected to bring 3,000 jobs to the British capital. Google announced it would add a new office building to a complex currently under development behind London’s King’s Cross ...
The Bank of Japan is still too optimistic about the time needed to achieve its 2 percent inflation target, given the country’s entrenched deflationary mindset, a former BOJ executive director said. Any lack of progress toward that goal, though, is unlikely to trigger additional easing by the central bank because ...
Advertising giant Dentsu Inc. reported solid group earnings Monday for the January to September period due to brisk ad revenue on the back of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics and Paralympics this summer. Although a simple year-on-year comparison is difficult as Dentsu has changed its accounting period, its overall revenue ...