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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The economy grew more than expected in the third quarter as exports offset slack consumer spending. The post Japanese economy chalks up 0.5% growth in third quarter appeared first on The Japan Times.
Demand for its exports provided the lift that neither government nor consumers have offered. But Donald Trump’s anti-Japan talk has put trade under a cloud.
TOKYO - Japan's economy grew more than expected in the third quarter as exports offset slack consumer spending, official data showed Monday.
The new guns on the Navy’s biggest and most advanced destroyer are going to be firing blanks if the Navy can’t find cost-effective projectiles. The GPS-guided, rocket-powered projectiles developed for the new 155mm Advanced Gun System currently cost about $800,000 apiece, nearly as much as a cruise missile, making them ...
A top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump says it would be “unrealistic” to purge his children from his businesses and hand their control over to an independent trustee. Appearing on televised interviews on Sunday, Giuliani initially said Trump should set up “some kind of blind trust.” When pressed, Giuliani told ...
Toyota has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit and pay approximately $3.4 billion to owners of trucks and SUVs in the United States who complained that their vehicles lacked proper rust protection. The agreement relates to some 1.5 million Toyota Tacomas, Sequoias and Tundras sold in the United States by ...
Japan Airlines marked the 50th anniversary of its Japan-New York route, with an event at Narita International Airport near Tokyo, on Saturday. On Nov. 12, 1966, JAL became the first domestic carrier to launch flight services between Tokyo and New York using Douglas DC-8 jets. Stopping over in Honolulu and ...
A majority of Japanese think the country’s economy is worsening due to slumping consumer spending and stagnant wage increases, according to results of a nationwide poll published Sunday by local newspapers. In the survey conducted Nov. 5 and 6, 58 percent said they think the economy is faltering, up 15.0 ...
A driverless bus with passengers on board slowly traversed a lakeside road in the city of Senboku, Akita Prefecture, on Sunday, in the first public road test of an automated bus in the country. The “Robot Shuttle” electric vehicle went back and forth on a 400-meter closed section along Lake ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry refused to call last rites on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Sunday, expressing hope President-elect Donald Trump will drop his opposition to the contentious free trade deal. The 12-nation TPP became a hot-button issue during the U.S. election campaign, with critics including Trump saying it ...
Donald Trump’s shock White House win sparked a surprising rally on Wall Street last week that some believe could be a prelude to further gains. The response, which sent the Dow Jones Industrial record to all time highs on Thursday and Friday, reflected expectations that pro-business policies and ramped-up public ...
Pakistan’s top civilian and military leaders traveled to the country’s southwest on Sunday to open a new international trade route by seeing off a Chinese ship that’s exporting goods to the Middle East and Africa from the newly built Gwadar port. The first convoy of Chinese trucks carrying goods for ...
Peru President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski told Russian media that Pacific-rim countries can forge a new trade deal that includes China to replace the U.S.-led TPP that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to scrap. Kuczynski, speaking to Russia Today in an videotaped interview posted on the state-funded broadcaster’s website Friday, ...
A top adviser to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump lashed out at the Obama administration for failing to embrace the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, suggesting a possible policy shift when Trump takes office in January. Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post said that Trump’s national security adviser, James Woolsey, called ...
Officials with Narita International Airport Corp. said Friday its airport will see a bigger drop in the number of passenger arrivals in the second half of 2016 than earlier forecast after a greater number of flight services with the United States were canceled. The airport operator is now bracing for ...
Almost every Japanese household has a washing machine, so why are so many of them using laundromats that cost them extra money? The post Japan’s laundromat bubble shows no sign of bursting appeared first on The Japan Times.
U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration has suspended its efforts to win congressional approval for the Trans-Pacific Partnership before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, saying Friday that the fate of the free trade pact was up to Trump and Republican lawmakers. Administration officials also said Obama would try to explain the ...
Among the three route options for an extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line to Osaka from Tsuruga, one running via Maizuru and Kyoto would be least viable, a government report has shown. In the report, submitted Friday to the ruling coalition’s project team to promote shinkansen development, the transport ministry ...
Iron and steel trader R&K Trading Co. inaugurated a ¥1.5 billion ($14 million) state-of-the-art steel factory in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, on Friday. The Japanese factory covers an area of 19,950 sq. meters in the Japan-backed Thilawa Special Economic Zone. With a production capacity of 120,000 tons per year for ...
Giappone e India firmano un accordo sul nucleare civile. L’11 novembre a Tokyo Shinzō Abe e Narendra Modi hanno sottoscritto un accordo che permetterà alle aziende giapponesi di esportare tecnologie nucleari in India, paese dotato dell’arma atomica e che non ha firmato il trattato di non proliferazione. L’accordo tra i ...
In the strategic rivalry between Japan and China, high-speed rail contracts are one of the best ways to project power. And no Asian country offers more opportunities than India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his counterpart Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Friday night, almost a year after the Indian leader ...